Quotes About Renewal

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

Apologizing is like spring cleaning.

when your heart changes, you change, and you have to make new plans.

In the morning I'm like a snake in the spring: I need to lie out on a warm rock and let the sun sink into me before I can start wiggling around and get on with the day.

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travels, with a little bit of me added to it.

Daffodils, first sign of spring. It's how you know everything is about to change.

It's like magic, the way god wipes the memories of pain from your head.

It crumbled apart into ash, going from form to formlessness. To everything, it's season. The pine cone grew into being, burned bright, and now it had disappeared. That was natural.

It is the hour to rend thy chains, The blossom time of souls.

In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Grace is at work even in fallen man ... to bend partially back in the right direction those human powers and endowments which were man left to himself would be wholly perverted.

The restoration of the image of God ... the new nature, created after the likeness of God in righteousness and holiness ... the new nature, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its Creator ... the renewal of the image will throw light upon the meaning and content of the original creation of man in the image of God.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times — and this is the worst of all — before we have new ones.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

It was as though the world had had a fresh coat of paint, and every heart acquired a store of illusions that made the burden of life less hard to bear.

all my past spread out laid bare I trample on it what else to do

Dame señor la fuerza de las olas del mar, que hacen de cada retroceso un nuevo punto de partida

Now what mattered to me no longer matters.

I could have not returned, and I've returned.