Quotes About Renewal

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little more worthy.

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,One passion doth expel another still.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does it is one of the sensible things that nature does.

The renewal of the new person6 does not designate gradual renewal of the character, but that the new humanity, already existing in Christ, is progressively actualized in the Christian church.

We can only conclude that the expression "in the flesh" means to live as an unregenerate person, to be a person who is not indwelt by the Spirit of God.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

The United States periodically reaches a point of crisis in which it appears to be at war with itself, yet after an extended period it reinvents itself, in a form both faithful to its founding and radically different from what it had been.

It taught me that for every period of stress there must be a time of rest and contemplation.

Fatigue fled.

It doesn't matter what you were. It matters what you are now.

Ya no creo en las catástrofes, puesto que la última ha fracasado. Ya no creo en la desgracia, ni en la muerte. La humanidad entera se encuentra en el estado mental del niño que le ha perdido el miedo al coco.

A wish for a future no longer tainted by the past. A future that held joy, not regret. A future that offered love instead of loneliness.

Remember not the events of the past, the things of long ago consider not.

The division of one day from the next must be one of the most profound peculiarities of life on this planet. It is, on the whole, a merciful arrangement. We are not condemned to sustained flights of being, but are constantly refreshed by little holidays from ourselves.

And so my life has become tiny and mean and incomplete and I must begin it again without comfort and without magic.

She did not want to be as before. She wanted great changes in her life.

I'm sorry, I'm not myself. Or rather I am myself, my new self.

All, all of a piece throughout: Thy Chase had a Beast in view: Thy Wars brought nothing about; Thy Lovers were all untrue. 'Tis well an Old Age is out, And time to begin a New. DRYDEN: THE SECULAR MASQUE