Quotes About Renewal

One could only trudge away from the place to which one had hurried in such hope at the start. One could only begin again, a year older, and resolve to carry oneself in such a way that the pressure wave of the tragedy was contained within one's own body, and could not spread one inch further.

I found the little bottle of nail varnish at the bottom of a charity box. It still had the price ticket on it. If I ever discover the person who gave it then I will tell them, for the cost of one British pound and ninety-nine pence, they saved my life. Because this is what I did in that place, to remind myself I was alive underneath everything; under my steel toe caps I wore bright red nail varnish.

What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way.

They have this majestic, glorious agony that they reawaken every day just by awakening.

A broken heart doesn't need repaired. Because maybe one of your pieces fits perfectly with someone else's heart.

Most grandiose gestures are suspect—the couple who renew their vows just before divorce or the politician who publicly swears he's clean, then enters rehab.

Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity.

When you got born again your past was not erased, it became non-existent.

In other words, he charges up, builds up, overhauls, or refreshes himself. Praying in tongues refreshes and revives you.

I will rise when he calls my name, no more sorrow, no more pain, I will rise on eagles wings before my God; fall on my knees, and rise, I will rise.

Eventually, morning came instead of bad guys. That was the thing about mornings. No matter how fucked up your life got, how deep and black your despair, how sure you were that you just couldn't take another second of this shit, morning just kept on coming. Over and over. Morning didn't give a damn about your little drama.

renewal, a "national crusade to make America great

Il faut savoir recommencer sa vie, sinon on vieillit vite.

So blissful in taking this time for creating all things blossoming new on the horizon ... album, baby & beautiful music to come.

You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it'll become too small." "Then what?" I ask. "Well, then you'll have to find a larger shell to live in." I consider this for a moment. "What if it's too small but you still want to live there?" She sighs. "Gracious, child, what a question. I suppose you'll either have to be brave and find a new home or you'll have to live inside a broken shell.

FLOWERS FADE, FREEZE in an early frost, wither on the vine. Trees burst into flame and burn themselves out. Leaves crumble to ash.

My own awakening feels as momentous. I too am blanketed, my harsh edges obscured and transformed.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

The poet Swinburne said that spring begins 'blossom by blossom.

Spring is when life's alive in everything.

Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

Spring bursts today, For love is risen and all earth's at play.

A Daughter of Eve... My garden-plot I have not kept; Faded and all-forsaken, I weep as I have never wept: Oh it was summer when I slept, It's winter now I waken.

There is no time like Spring, When life's alive in everything