Quotes About Renewal

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.

To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience as joy, as being. [Every form of intuition and experience] die to be born again on a higher level of life.

We must approach our meditation realizing that 'grace,' 'mercy,' and 'faith' are not permanent inalienable possessions which we gain by our efforts and retain as though by right, provided that we behave ourselves. They are CONSTANTLY RENEWED GIFTS. The life of grace in our hearts is renewed from moment to moment, directly and personally by God in his love for us.

The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent.

All of this is mystification. The city itself lives on its own myth. Instead of waking up and silently existing, the city people prefer a stubborn and fabricated dream; they do not care to be a part of the night, or to be merely of the world. They have constructed a world outside the world, against the world, a world of mechanical fictions which contemn nature and seek only to use it up, thus preventing it from renewing itself and man.

There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which really changes our lives from within. And yet the same instinct tells us that this change is a recovery of that which is deepest, most original, most personal in ourselves. To be born again is not to become somebody else, but to become ourselves.

Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new.

It is here, in this poverty, that man regains the eternal being that once he was, now is and evermore shall be.

To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience, as joy, as being.

Stagnation and inactivity bring spiritual death.

This priest, who had been a Trappist for nearly fifty years, looked much younger than he was because he was so full of life and nervous energy. They had been fifty years of hard work which, far from wearing him out, had only seemed to sharpen and intensify his vitality.

It's the pausing and the stopping, perhaps going backward and losing some time, not being able to do everything we're supposed to do, that serves the soul. That's the enchantment that feeds the soul.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life.

La quiebra es parte del ciclo natural de los negocios. Las empresas nacen, mueren y el capitalismo continúa. Revista Fortune

You know the feeling that a great writer gives you: my spirit has been fed and refreshed; it has partaken of something new.

Bir ÅŸey elden gittiyse gitti demektir. Sona ermiÅŸ, bitmiÅŸtir. O zaman b?rak?n gitsin! Görmezden gelin onu, eÄŸer avunmaya ihtiyac?n?z varsa, yitirilen ÅŸeylerin asla geri gelmediÄŸini düÅŸünerek avutun kendinizi: Gelse bile yeni bir ÅŸeydir art?k, her seferinde yeni, baÅŸka bir ÅŸeydir. Elinizden ç?kt??? anda deÄŸiÅŸime uÄŸram??t?r.

You know what they say of revolutionaries—'Once it is over, we must vanish, for the fire that destroys cannot build.

Spring makes everything look filthy.

the one thing we do know for sure is that the relationship you once shared—the one that was clearly not working for one or both of you—has to die.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. MAYA ANGELOU

Transformation often begins with what we're willing to subtract from our lives, rather than what we're trying to add.