Quotes About Renewal

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, "It will be happier." —Alfred Lord Tennyson

We need to unlearn the habits of impatience and take stock of those beliefs about life that no longer hold true.

All the reasons you fell in love are still there, but perhaps buried under worries and responsibility. Find them again, then hang in there. Truly, the best is yet to come.

Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles.

When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.

I am waiting for the Last Supper to be served again with a strange new appetizer

Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.

Freedom is about stopping the past.

The gray, austere old earth renews her youth With dew-lines, sunshine, gossamer, and haze. How still she lies and dreams, and veils the truth, While all is fresh as in the early days!

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.... There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the end. A feeling that you have brought your family, your characters, home. Then a sort of post-natal depression and then, very quickly, the horizon of a new book. The consolation that next time I will do it better.

The problem of the house is a problem of the epoch. The equilibrium of society today depends upon it. Architecture has for its first duty, in this period of renewal, that of bringing about a revision of values, a revision of the constituent elements of the house.

They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary, to begin, all over again, something else.

we necessarily have negative, distorted thinking about ourselves and others. We do not ignore or deny it, but we write it out as specifically as we can, just as we do with our sins, and say to God, "Look at this. I don't want this. You take it!" We name it as the distorted thinking that it is. Then we replace it with right thinking—those light-filled thoughts and attitudes in line with truth and the way things really are.

Als liefde of de Geest van God een mens raakt, wordt hij getransformeerd, hij klemt zichzelf niet langer vast aan zijn afzonderlijke individualiteit

In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have to confront all your past hang-ups, strip them off, and be a changed person." One emperor of Rom who wanted to be initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries said, "That's interesting, I approve of what you're doing, but I don't want to be changed."

Symbolically, emerald brings a sense of clarity, renewal, and rejuvenation, which is so important in today's complex world.

Death was bleach and it burned away the stains, leaving nothing but white.

Oh, thou divinest healer Time And thing sublime! That thou should'st gladly life's lorn nest Anew invest, And set before the eyes of man A deeper purpose, holier plan, And gently bridge the abysmal span, 'Twixt earth and rest!

For death is but a passing phase of Life; A change of dress, a disrobing; A birth into the unborn again; A commencing where we ended; A starting where we stopped to rest; A crossroad of Eternity; A giving up of something, to possess all things. The end of the unreal, the beginning of the real.

Tears are the Soul's baptism of cleansing.

Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth.

God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way.