Quotes About Renewal

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...

There was no harm done; and what would a Resurrection be without a few laughs?

what would a Resurrection be without a few laughs?

Everything tires with time , and starts to seek some opposition , to save it from itself.

May there be a cleansing in your absolution.

Con el tiempo todas las cosas se cansan y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas.

Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself. So

She was regarding her face in the mirror. She again had the allure that so captivated movie audiences. Gone were the ravages of last night's excess. Kevin had restored her face's artful mix of innocence and sex appeal. The sadness in her eyes was hers alone.

A snake can shed its skin but it still remains a snake.

If we force ourselves to press on, a surprising thing happens. The fatigue gets worse, up to a point, then suddenly vanishes, and we feel better than before.

As to Gurdjieff's power to renew his own energies, its essence had been understood by psychologists of the nineteenth century, decades before the age of Freud and Jung. William James speaks about it in an important essay called 'The Energies of Man'.

Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen until they are no longer cracks but the new places for things. That was where they were now. The world wasn't ending: it had ended and now they were in the new place. They could not recognize it because they had never seen it before.

They will have to destroy this city once we deliver the black box. The current bones will not accommodate the marrow of the device. They will have to raze the city and cart off the rubble to less popular boroughs and start anew.

Manhattan was empty except for soldiers and legions of the damned, and already gentrification had resumed.

She gulped the air like water, the night sky the best meal she had ever had, the starts made succulent and ripe after her time below.

Bitince yenisine ba?lars?n,' dedi. 'Ama bu daha bitmedi.

Launderer, heal thyself.

Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin. [...] All I wanted was to make my life thrilling for a while: to take the oridinary objects of my days and make a different argument out of them, no obligations to my past.

You want to arrest the clocks, stop everything for half a second, give yourself a chance to do it over again, rewind the life, uncrash the car, run it backward, have her lifted miraculously back into the windshield, unshatter the glass, go about your day umtouched, some old, lost sweet tasting time.

One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory.

The men all seemed to want mulligans with their lives.

I believed in our vows. I just prayed that one day, we could get back to the 'for better ' part because we were drowning in all of this for worse.

If you've ever tried meditation and didn't stay with it, I recommend you try it again. Some time has passed. In the interim, you may have developed the discipline of mind or the patience you were short on before. Let these qualities aid your practice. (173)

Times of transition are difficult times, times of crisis. But in these times of crisis, with their woes, a new time is already being born.