Quotes About Renewal

and the olive trunks steamed as the rain was dried off them by the sun

Spend as much time as you can before tomorrow ridding yourself of all the past, painful guilty, fearful thoughts and experiences you have had with your son.

Inside us all, in the depths of our winters, things are going on, things we will have no clue of until spring comes, and perhaps not even then.

Survival requires that we learn to laugh things off and start over

There is a spirit out there that lifts the heart and renews one's determination to be better, to try harder, to strive to be more faithful. That is the legacy those wonderful Saints have handed to us.

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. (On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president)

I bent my head and breathed the fresh new scent of her. I looked into her deep blue eyes and saw reflected there the dawn of my own new life. This little girl seemed to me, at that moment, answer enough to all my questions. To have saved this small, singular one—this alone seemed reason enough that I lived. I knew then that this was how I was meant to go on: away from death and toward life, from birth to birth, from seed to blossom, living my life amongst wonders.

I do not propose to go on as I have been, feeding on the gall of my own grief. For you grieve, and yet you live, and are useful, and bring life to others.

I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.

There is no death! the stars go down to rise upon some fairer shore.

The loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough, and stands about the woodland ride wearing white for Eastertide.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race.

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

As full of spirit as the month of May.

Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it.

With each sunrise, we start anew.

Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning! ... Each morning is the open door to a new world-new vistas, new aims, new tryings.

To be seeing the world made new every morning, as if it were the morning of the first day, and then to make the most of it for the individual soul as if each were the last day, is the daily curriculum of the mind's desire.

Irene Claremont de Castillego

I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds, and the breathing air and smiling face of the hills.