Quotes About Renewal

To crave forever is to dismiss the beauty and wonder of the cycle.

Change--savor the cool, fresh flavor of it.

Bridges are burned, Iona reminded herself, for the chance to build new ones. Wherever they led--and they'd already brought her closer to who she was than any of the ones before.

Why? Why am I the one? Because my life opened up, and it flooded with color when you walked back into it.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different.

At forty-six, Rosalind Harper was a rose in full bloom. Not the hothouse sort, Stella mused, but one that weathered the elements, season after season, and came back, year after year, stronger and more beautiful. She

He didn't look the way he used to, but neither did he look

ruthlessly pulled weeds and spent blossoms.

Changing it without damaging it. If you cut down a tree, is what you're putting in its place worth the sacrifice?

transformation

I wake up, I feel the inescapable oppression of the sunlight pouring through my bedroom window, and I am struck by the fact that I am alone. And that everyone is alone. And that everything I understood seven hours ago has already changed, and that I have to learn everything again.

everything I understood seven hours ago has already changed, and that I have to learn everything again.

You don't have a chance if you think you can clean yourself up before you come to the Lord. You come to the Lord first, then He will clean up your life. A fisherman cleans the fish after the fish are caught.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

You have to keep recycling yourself.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

Its only after you've lost everything, Tyler says, that you're free to do anything.

and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born.

If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.

There isn't any real you in you, she says, Even your physical body, all your cells will be replaced within eight years.

How is it that you keep mutating and can still be the same virus?

It's only after you have lost everything that you are free to do anything.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, that you're free to do anything.