Quotes About Renewal

It is well to lie fallow for a while.

Everything holds its breath except spring. She bursts through as strong as ever.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

In essence, the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

To be reborn is a constantly recurring human need.

In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest; for them, we in a strange sense wish to, and do, start life anew.

I believe that every day is a celebration and every day I'm born anew and genuinely try to live every day differently.

If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.

When you are creating to the magnitude that I try to create, your brain is like a computer, and you need to refresh.

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

Hearing 'This Is How It Feels' on the radio was an amazing feeling, like starting again. But I believe that, in the end, my name will be bigger then the Verve because of all those great tunes and the power of what I stand for.

I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through.

I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.

I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.

So I just took some time off. I was maybe going to do two or three years and it turned into five years. But certainly, I'd say it was the best thing I ever did. And now I come back to this whole thing really energized about it.

Everything seems to have been turned upside-down, but in a good way.

We don't notice that our cells are turning over all the time. You get a completely new composition of cells every seven years, and on the surface, or subjectively, it looks as though you're the same for seven years. It's like a ground - it looks stable, but beneath it, everything is shifting all the time. It's exciting and dangerous.

With every resurgence or generational turning, fashion and music becomes reiterated.

Typically, there's about 20, 25 percent turnover every year. So, every three or four years with the exception of, as is the case with the Patriots and the quarterback, you have a roster turnover.

Turns out tomato feed is the gift that keeps on giving. It's good for any plant.

A well-run organization turns over 10% of their organizations, including senior leadership. I don't have the heart to do that.

I'm not going to be the one who turns out the last lights of the last conglomerate. So we need to reinvent ourselves all the time.