Quotes About Renewal

His dreams brightened. The vanished world returned.

He said that like every man who comes to the end of something there was nothing to be done but to begin again.

You'd be a woreout sumbuck. I'll tell you that. Think how good you'd sleep.

After a while he said: It's not about knowin where you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. Or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm saying?

Then he waded out into the river like some wholly wretched baptismal candidate.

Such as. Do you ever think what it would be like to meet a person you've known for a long time for the first time in these later years? To meet them anew. You're thinking they would be a much different person to you if you didnt know their history. Yes. How would it differ from when you first met them? That's not it. We're talking about them as they are now. Only with a past unknown to us.

What is the significance of the book's title? 2. Discuss the meaning of the observation: "The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before" [p. 278]. How are these words applicable to the novel's action?

Yellow leaves were falling all through the forest and the river was filled with them, shuttling and winking, golden leaves that rushed like poured coins in the tailwater. A perishable currency, forever renewed.

He took of his hat and placed it on the tarmac before him and he bowed his head and held his face in his hands and wept. He sat there for a long time and after a while the east did gray and after a while the right and godmade sun did rise, once again, for all and without distinction.

You ever think what it would be like to meet a person you've known for a long time for the first time in these later years? To meet them anew. You're thinking they would be a much different person to you if you didn't know their history.

For the world was made new each day and it was only men's clinging to its vanished husks that could make of that world one husk more.

Wood always remembers it was once a living tree, alive and breathing in both kingdoms, the one above and the one below.

Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garment.

One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring-clean…. It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came out from under his workbench as he swept. Beginnings of creatures, bits that looked useful but had seemed wrong, ideas that he'd mislaid and forgotten…. There was even a tiny lump of sun. He scratched his head. What could be done with all this rubbish? Ted Hughes, "Leftovers," from The Dreamfighter

Dir wachsen einfach nur neue Blätter, Caspia, dachte sie, wie dem jungen Löwenzahn und der Kapuzinerkresse.

It was so easy for an old normal to make way for a new one, so easy to blot the memories of that old normal. That was a skill that had served her well, but in that bite and its honey, she'd counted the cost for the first time.

Every good thing comes to some kind of end, and then the really good things come to a beginning again.

God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage.

To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge.

There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love.

We didn't want to waste this second chance-- to continue a thread that'd been lost-- to finish a sentence.

I had been immersed in the waters of the Great West Ocean, and came out a different person

How can you make a fresh start in a new world when you are carrying with you on your boat all the same problems, the same frustrations and inequalities of the old world

Está usted malgastando su vida sin renovarla. Tiene que distraerse, divertirse bien y sanamente. Está usted gastando su vitalidad sin adquirir vitalidad ninguna. Esto no puede seguir así, ¿me entiende? ¡Depresión! ¡Evite la depresión!