Quotes About Renewal

I need a time out. Send me to the beach and don't let me come back until my attitude changes.

Sometimes you're taken into troubled waters not to drown but to be cleansed

Rainbows always gave her hope—hope that something beautiful waited for those strong enough to survive the storm.

That there are no troubles in life that can't be sorted through or solved by spending time in the garden

I've always thought my attraction to water was because it offers an unending source of renewal. It's there with each wave—with each tide. Always wiping the shore clean of all imperfections in time for the next tide.

The whole reason why I'd left was to start over and pretend I didn't have a past.

Weeds could be pulled and new seeds planted, hardened soil tilled and watered to make a fertile bed. Water could be piped in to make an old fountain cascade for the first time. Perhaps my relationship with my mother could be tended in the same way, with care and patience used to rebuild the bedrock of a mother-child bond that had been broken nearly thirty-three years before.

The heaviness leaves, and if I'm patient enough it can be replaced by something I need, somthing that would fill instead of drown and let me breathe instead of bleed.

Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.

What I love best in life is new starts.

I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been enjoying it, I've had enough. Give us another book

The flame of my life burns low Under the cluttered days, Like a fire of leaves. But always a little blue, sweet-smelling smoke Goes up to God.

The parts of life that hurt and make us sick and tired, those are the places to start digging. Dig also in those places where you've been taken to the limit as well as those that lie motionless and at a standstill. The land of the soul is an open field for digging, and any sign of disturbing activity or suspicious inactivity is a big clue about where to start.

Birthdays should come every day. Especially when you missed so many as a kid.

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

If my life were a book, I would have masking tape holding my hinges together. My pages would be loose, my edges tattered and my boards exposed, the front flyleaf torn and the leather mottled and moth-eaten. I'd have to take myself apart and put myself back together, as any good book restoration expert would do.

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

Starting again: there's a secret hope that makes you hold on, to dream that you'll get it right someday, that you'll go back and take it up again and it will finally come out right. That this time all the pieces will fit. The mistake is waiting until you feel renewed enough to give it another try. You simply have to pick up the needles and keep at it anyway.

Now think of life in the same terms. Start over when you have to. Make a second draft. Or a third. Embrace the chance you have to do things over again in a different, better, wiser way.

I believe she's blown some dust off her heart.

Ba?kald?r?dan devrime geçi?, geçmi? özleminden kurtulup yeni alternatifler yaratmay? gerektirir.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

I got tired of feeling like Dracula. I wanted to see some daylight, and not just at six o'clock in the morning.

According to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the US Preventative Services Task Force, there is no medical reason for a gynecological exam to get a prescription for the Pill, with an annual repeat in order to renew it.13