Quotes About Renewal

and some soon will learn that even an ember in the ashes can still ignite a great blaze.

It is as if I were a stranger here. Nothing has changed, and yet everything has changed - Theon Greyjoy

The tree had been dead a long time, but it seemed to live again in the fire

For the oak recalls the acorn, the acorn dreams the oak, the stump lives in them both.

A broken sword can be reforged. A broken sword can kill.

The rain feels so good against my face, Sam. It feels like tears. Let me stay awhile longer, I pray you. It has been a long time since I last wept.

Ruins can be rebuilt.

What is dead may never die, but rises again, stronger and harder.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

Tomorrow can be the first day of the rest of your life. All you have to do is to follow Thoreau. Inhabit your body with delight, with inexpressible satisfaction; both its weariness and its refreshments. And

At 45, 2 years after the birth of his last child, he started running again.

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

I said to myself 'I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me--shapes and idea so near to my-- so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.' I decided to start anew to strip away what I had been taught...

I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again.

Each time I leave here [Ghost Ranch] it is like a Death, and each time that I return it is a Birth.

Just as smiles often follow tears, the sun rose full and bright on the morning..

It was no half-hearted spring, this: the whole island vibrated with it as though a great, ringing chord had been struck. Everyone and everything heard it and responded.