Quotes About Renewal

I think everyone has to have some kind of hiatus at some point, if only for people to get nostalgic and remember. Then it comes back with a bigger bang. In the meantime, you have to keep busy doing other things.

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.

The spiritual self of each of us is that part of us that will never grow old, or ill, or die, but it must be nurtured and invigorated!

Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

At a time when mythologicals were considered obsolete, Devon Ke Dev Mahadev' revived the genre.

Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps.

When I looked, I knew I might never again see so much of the earth so beautiful, the beautiful being something you know added to something you see, in a while that is different from the sum of its parts. What I saw might have been just another winter scene, although an impressive one. But what I knew was that the earth underneath was alive and that by tomorrow, certainly by the day after, it would be all green again.

dry channel, so I could enliven its stony remains

Anyone who has done seasonal work knows that as regular as the seasons themselves is the return of this feeling at the end of each season, It's time to quit. It's time to quit.

No matter what mistakes you have made - no matter how you've messed things up - you can still make a new beginning. The person who fully realises this suffers less from the shock and pain of failure and sooner gets off to a new beginning.

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is. . . . ROMANS 12:2

Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.

Do not be content with the old anointing. It is essential to a more holy and happy life...that you seek to be anointed with new oil. Do not be satisfied with past experiences. [...] Seek to have a new revelation of Christ to your soul. Seek the renewed application of His precious blood to your conscience. Oh, seek the fresh oil!

The atoning work of Christ lays the foundation of sanctification

Today.....I begin a new life.

Today my old skin has become as dust. I will walk tall among men and they will know me not, for today I am a new man, with a new life.

El tazón roto se convierte en espada aguda. Todas las cosas que se han roto se vuelven espadas.

I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.

Right now, no matter where you are, you are a single choice away from a new beginning.

Because, as I would always tell myself so many years later, lying here in my bed: You can't start out again in life, that's a carriage ride you only take once, but with a book in your hand, no matter how confusing and perplexing it might be, once you've finished it, you can always go back to the beginning; if you like, you can read it through again, in order to figure out what you couldn't understand before, in order to understand life, isn't that so, Fatma?

You cannot embark on life, that one-off coach ride, once again when it is over, but if you have a book in your hand, no matter how complex or difficult, when you have finished it, you can, if you wish, go back to the beginning, read it again, and thus understand that which is difficult and, with it, understand life as well.