Quotes About Renewal

The past is falling to pieces like the beggar with his clown-clothes . . .

The heat of his night time fever was being brushed away entirely by the breeze as the light mists evaporated. The same process that was happening around him, was happening within him too. He was being reborn with the morning.

La convalescenza è una purificazione e un rinascimento. Non mai il senso della vita è soave come dopo l'angoscia del male; e non mai l'anima umana più inclina alla bontà e alla fede come dopo aver guardato negli abissi della morte.

You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.

It is the same world, she thought, but I am different. Or is it a different world, but I am the same?

The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

You have a thousand chances to make something right. That's a heck of a lot of chances, by the way. But they do run out eventually.

And then, because the world is relentless this way, it was spring.

Beauty, after all, is almost always a matter of angles and resolve. Urban renewal projects were accomplished so frantically it seemed like time-lapse photography.

and the fresh air that came in was so crisp and cool, it almost felt like a drug.

For Ms. Pac-Man, Anna thought, life was cheap and filled with second chances.

No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.

The real gift of the holiday season, A.J. thinks, is that it ends.

She used to say that a bad marriage was one that hadn't had enough time to get good again.

Humans are not born forever on the day their mothers have them; life necessitates giving birth to themselves over and over again.

Its an onion tree. Every time Sam takes off an onion, two more will grow in its place.

The walk north was exactly the right distance to make me walk out of myself....If you walked out of yourself going north, what did you do on the return walk? Enjoyed my emptiness. Or sometimes just congratulated myself for escaping.

Because the 40s, as writer Barbara Fried so succinctly captures them, are a time when it seems no matter what course one has pursued, "everything is turning gray, drying up or leaving home.

And somewhere between the late thirties and early forties when we enter midlife, we also have the opportunity for true adulthood, whereupon we proceed either to wither inside our husks or to regather and re-pot ourselves for the flowering into our full authenticity.

Life after adolescence is not one long plateau. Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Many people find it easier to live together when that commitment is voluntarily renewed. The

We're stepping into a new world, and an entire way of thinking must be changed. But the old ideas can't be easily discarded. Like a pendulum, new ways must swing to the other side before returning.

Now spring brings back balmy warmth.