Quotes About Renewal

Fly away, fly away over the sea, Sun-loving swallow, for summer is done; Come again, come again, come back to me, Bringing the summer and bringing the sun.

I WISH I WERE A LITTLE BIRD I wish I were a little bird That out of sight doth soar, I wish I were a song once heard But often pondered o'er, Or shadow of a lily stirred By wind upon the floor, Or echo of a loving word Worth all that went before, Or memory of a hope deferred That springs again no more.

What the tide takes away, the tide brings back.

The serious readers are usually people who have swerved off course in their own first acts—who have gone through major changes in their lives.

Ancient virtues may lay for many years dormant. It does not mean that they are dead. We Hobbits need merely discover them, plant them in new soil, tend our little garden with care, and wait with sunlit hope for them to spring leaf and flower again in a new age.

Contrary to what many people think today, punishment as such is not what satisfies the demands of justice. Justice is satisfied by repentance, restoration, and renewal. Punishment serves as a mechanism for helping to promote such restoration.

True surrender is giving up an old way for a new way.

I used to be driven, but I pulled over.

The daylight, he remembered, was a sort of medicine. Truly nothing was as acute or upsetting in the first light of day.

To cling to the past is hypocrisy, because no one knows those moments.

We were now in full spring. March had come and on the fourth of the month began the New Year Festival—the greatest of all Tibetan feasts, which lasts for three weeks.

They wanted spring, of course they wanted it, more than anything. They longed for sun with every pore of their skin. But spring hurts. If spring can come, if things can be different, how can you bear what your existence has been?

It was early summer. And everything, as it always does, began to heave and change.

Do we identify with a criminal in that we too secretly long to be judged? Popularly, being 'judgemental' is ill thought of and resented. But what if we want our deeds, our natures, our very souls to be summed up and evaluated? A line to be drawn under our acts to date? A punishment declared, amends made, the slate wiped clean? A born-again Christian, trying to explain his new sense of freedom, once said to me, "All my debts are paid".

recuperative and commemorative work.

The thing about gardens is that everyone thinks they go on growing, that in winter they sleep and in spring they rise.

There was nothing that was such a salve to my grieving heart as the hawk returning.

Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.

In winter-time visions of Spring and Summer are conjured at will by poets...

El objetivo del Espíritu Santo es ayudarnos a escapar del mundo de los sueños, enseñándonos cómo cambiar nuestra manera de pensar y cómo corregir nuestros errores.

Death yields to life simply because destruction is not true.

To create the new we must first de-create the old; and the reality of decreation (as Stevens called it, borrowing the word from Simone Weil) is as strong as the reality of creation.

The fact is we each get multiple chances over and over again in life. Keep this in mind, and you will find your life less pressured.

We do not speak. We have gone down along the side of the river slowly, as if we were climbing towards the stone seat of the wall. The distances have altered. This seat, for instance, we meet it sooner than we thought we should, like some one in the dark; but it is the seat all right. The rose-tree which grew above it has withered away and become a crown of thorns.