Quotes About Renewal

In fact, there are more than two chances - many more. I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.

Under her fierce gaze my past is burned away.

It is the duty of every generation of writers and artists to find fresh ways of expressing the habitual circumstances of the human condition. To serve up the lukewarm remains of yesterdays dinner is easy, profitable and popular, (for a while). It is also wrong.

Spring is about beginning again, and beginning again can be so much harder than staying in the winter of your life. What do you need to do this spring? What needs to begin again? What ground needs to be prepared? What needs to be planted? What needs to be swept away, because it's done? What new life is here? What will be different, this time?

Go into the woods to lose sight and memory of the crimes of your contemporaries.

What was the power that turned the worm into a moth? It was greater than any power the Builders had had, he was sure of that. The power that ran the city of Ember was feeble by comparison...

Don't worry," said Maddy. "People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the world, we can't touch the place life comes from. Whatever made plants and animals and people spring up in the first place will always be there, and life will spring up again.

People had figured it out once, she thought. They could figure it out again.

Job, chapter fourteen, verse seven," Aunt Al said. " Ã¢â'¬ËœFor there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease.' 

There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

float: they had only one day in which to smooth out their wrinkles, their crow's feet, the bitter lines made by a hard week's work. One day only. They felt the minutes flowing between their fingers; would they have time to store up enough youth to start anew on Monday morning?

I just turned 66, and I'm starting to work again.

I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.

The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.

Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.

For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man.

Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work.

Ignore your previous experience and go into the moment. Be Here Now. See what there is to work with right now in creating yourself anew. Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation.

Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.

My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.