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Quotes About Renewal

In the midst of winter, I finally found there was within me an invincible summer.' Ã¢â'¬Â "Did you just think of that?" "No. It's by Albert Camus.
~ Isabel Allende
Para qué he vivido, Lucía? Antes de morir tengo que averiguar para qué estoy en este mundo. Es verdad lo que dices, he estado tanto tiempo anestesiado, que no sabría por dónde comenzar a vivir de nuevo. — Si me dejas, te puedo ayudar. — ¿Cómo? — Se empieza con el cuerpo. Te propongo que juntemos los sacos y durmamos abrazados. (...)
~ Isabel Allende
I am happy to start from zero, to create, to restart.
~ Felipe Massa
I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.
~ Shawn Johnson
From a fallen tree, all make kindling.
~ Spanish proverb
An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.
~ Cecil Beaton
One of the recognizable features of the authentic masterpiece is its capacity to renew itself, to endure the loss of some kinds of immediate relevance while still answering the most important questions men can ask, including new ones they are just learning how to frame.
~ Arnold Stein
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Where, unwilling, dies the rose, Buds the new, another year.
~ Dorothy Parker
All things change, nothing is extinguished.
~ Ovid
Change is the law of life.
~ John F. Kennedy
Change is the only evidence of life.
~ Evelyn Waugh
You must change in order to survive.
~ Pearl Bailey
Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.
~ Hal Borland
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
~ Gail Sheehy
To remain young one must change.
~ Alexander Chase
All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.
~ Sonia Johnson
Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?
~ Marcus Aurelius
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.
~ Katharine Butler Hathaway
It's quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person- beguiled, enchanted.
~ Mary Chase
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
~ Johann von Goethe
Let a man turn to his own childhood-no further-if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
~ Alice Meynell
One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
~ Faith Baldwin