Quotes About Renewal

Methought the germ of it was dead in me! Oh, Hester, thou art my better angel! I seem to have flung myself— sick, sin-stained, and sorrow-blackened— down upon these forest leaves, and to have risen up all made anew, and with new powers to glorify Him that hath been merciful! This is already the better life! Why did we not find it sooner?

Let us choose the rudest, roughest, most uncultivable spot, for Death's garden ground; and Death shall teach us to beautify it, grave by grave.

Ever afterwards so touched, and so transfigured.

Growing as they did, however, out of the old earth, the flowers still sent a fresh and sweet incense up to their Creator...

Human nature will not nourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil.

L'amore, sia quando nasce, sia quando risorge da un letargo che era sembrato mortale, sprigiona tanta luce che tutto il mondo d'intorno se ne accende

La razza umana, come ogni altro seme, non prospera rigogliosa, se trapiantata nello stesso terreno troppo a lungo sfruttato.

Leave this wreck and ruin here where it hath happened! Meddle no more with it! Begin all new!

as to the better centuries that are coming, the artist was surely right. His error lay, in supposing that his age, more than any past or future one, is destined to see the tattered garments of Antiquity exchanged for a new suit, instead of gradually renewing themselves by patchwork…

But the past was not dead. Once in a great while, the thoughts that had seemed so vital and so active, yet had been put to rest so quietly, revived again.

B)ut when the time is right and the winds begin to change, even the deadest of dreams can be resurrected.

It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.

We want what you no longer want.

New Beginning to the same old story

And in this way, we shall make our scythedom great once more.

And she will restore to him his soul.

We do, you know. Find ourselves. Although it's a little harder each time. Days pass. Weeks. Then we squeeze ourselves back into the skin of who we were before all this. We put the pieces back together and get on with things.

It felt... momentous, he said. It felt important. It felt - I felt - filled with wonderful purpose. I want to feel that again.

But we People of Chance do believe in people of second chance.

We believe that flames are not meant to burn forever.

For you nothing has changed." "Everything has changed, sir." "Perhaps everything will change again.

Yes, the Admiral is redeeming himself, and setting things right, bit by bit by bit.

Don't you see, Lev? you can save yourself. You can be anyone you want to be now.

L'orage rajeunit les fleurs