Quotes About Renewal

But this name of 'Holy Ghost' [*It should be borne in mind that the word "ghost" is the old English equivalent for the Latin "spiritus," whether in the sense of "breath" or "blast," or in the sense of "spirit," as an immaterial substance.

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

The buffalo eats grass, I eat him, and when I die, the earth eats me and sprouts more grass. Therefore nothing is ever lost, and each thing is everything forever, though all things move.

Awake, thou wintry earth - Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness!

Repentance is the vomit of the soul.

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.

To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

It's necessary to give birth to hope again.

Going from the top 'heel' in the industry, taking some time away to heal my neck and allow the people to miss me and understand what it was they had with me and just how special I am, allowed me to come back.

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

You've got to be constantly refueling. In the morning, it's fueling for the day. At night, it's fueling for the next day. It's a constant, never-ending deal.

Rereading, we find a new book.

Every day's a new day.

I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.

But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

I would love it if the whole 'Godzilla' franchise was revitalized for a new generation.

We have to breathe new life into Europe.

I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.

Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.

'Orphee' is, for me, about changes: about moving to a new city, leaving behind an old life in Copenhagen, and building a new one in Berlin - about the death of old relationships and the birth of new ones.