Quotes About Renewal

Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.

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 influence, to change.

The old order changeth, yielding place to new.

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

Wash you, make you clean.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

There are trees that seem to die at the end of autumn. There are also the evergreens.

For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth.

What we call the beginning is often an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Time is like a river of fleeting events, and its current is strong; as soon as something comes into sight, it is swept past us, and something else takes its place, and that too will be swept away.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunder-storm is to the air.

Now is the Winter of our discontent.

With renunciation life begins.

Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd slave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast.

If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night, I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.

We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.