Quotes About Renewal

Well,' she said, 'you may not be a stranger now. But you were once and I'm sure you will be again — many times.

hands which would have the power to crush me and make me whole again.

It is the responsibility of free en to trust and to celebrate what is constant—birth, struggle, and death are constant, and so is love, though we may not always think so—and to apprehend the nature of change, to be able and willing to change. I speak of change not on the surface but in the depths—change in the sense of renewal. But renewal becomes impossible if one supposes things to be constant that are not—safety, for example, or money, or power.

as the singing filled the air the watching, listening faces underwent a change, the eyes focusing on something within; the music seemed to soothe a poison out of them; and time seemed, nearly, to fall away from the sullen, belligerent, battered faces, as though they were fleeing back to their first condition, while dreaming of their last.

unproductive retirees. Take care of yourself physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Get enough sleep. Stay healthy. Get some exercise. Have diversions. Read. Converse with interesting people. Expose yourself to new ideas. Spend time in solitary, renewing activities. Set new challenges for yourself. Do whatever is necessary to keep yourself vibrant, stimulated, growing, and alive as a human being.

We are called upon to live Christ's life. We are called into the desert to meet the demon within. We are called to face God alone in the night of our own solitude. We are called to die with Jesus, in order to live with him. We are asked to lose all, to be emptied out, in order to be filled with the very fullness of God.

I turn and I look back across the lake. The mist is gone and the ice diminished, the drip of the icicles quick and heavy. The sun is up and the sky is blue empty blue light blue clear blue. I would drink the sky if I could drink it, drink it and celebrate it and let it fill me and become me. I am getting better. Empty and clear and light and blue. I am getting better.

No one comes face to face with God and remains unchanged.

Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

The roster of 'Lucha Underground' would definitely be excited about a fifth season. Same thing with the producers and everybody.

Sleep more. I don't think anyone understands how important it is. If you have a choice where you've only been sleeping five or six hours and can sleep an extra hour or work out, sleep an extra hour.

I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was proven to me on the few attempts that were made. The movie that was going to be done, I read that script, it was atrocious. It was just awful. And I just didn't think anybody understood it anymore.

If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower, which unfolds itself in spirals, as if the leaf form, unable to keep to its line, had begun to pivot.

I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again - -I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter.

The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment.

To enjoy the freshness of life, be simple like water.

Where once there was a void, Now at least there are Seeds of splendour, Becalmed belief for another time.

Empty yourself of past resentment, anger, and sadness to fill it with love and pure happiness.

Beautiful are those whose brokenness gives birth to transformation and wisdom.

The wound is the seed of wonder.

I die a little everyday, in trying to revive what I lost yesterday!

Those of little understanding say the world will soon end. It is the current age that is coming to an end. The end of this age is the beginning of the next.

If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.