Quotes About Renewal

It was Dec. 22, 1981. I figured I had messed up enough, and I decided to have a little faith and let God take over. It definitely straightened my act up in a hurry.

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

There are few moments of clarity more profound than those that follow the emptying of an overcharged bladder. The world slows down, the focus sharpens, the brain comes back on line. Huge nebulous difficulties prove on close calm examination to be merely cloud giants.

I'm on my own again. I feel totally exhausted. I

It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.

Nine lives and counting.

all lasting change is preceded by changed thinking.

É hora de você santificar sua vida. Pare de assistir ao que você costuma assistir; pare de ler o que você costuma ler, se isto tem lhe tomado mais tempo do que a leitura da Palavra de Deus. Ele deve ser sua maior fome e mais urgente.

got to give it all up, the pain, the hurt, the anger and make room for lovely things to rush in and fill you full.

The story doesn't end at the last chapter. Here lives new beginnings and endless opportunities.

She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

Grace makes us what we are and works in us and through us (1 Corinthians 15:10).

need for a younger, less sophisticated

If the snake sheds his skin before a new skin is ready, naked he will be in the world, prey to the forces of chaos. Without his skin he will be dismantled, lose coherence and die. Have you, my little serpents, a new skin?

Nothing's lost forever.

The fountain of Bethesda will flow again. And I told him I would personally take him there to bathe. We will all bathe ourselves clean.

I pray for God to crush me, break me up into little pieces and start all over again.

I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free. It would be...heartless terror. Yes. Terrible, and... Very great. To shed your skin, every old skin, one by one and then walk away, unemcumbered, into the morning.

No doubt about it! I gotta get a new ass!

It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.

Para las personas que pasan sus vidas ayudando a la gente, el reto es valorar Igualmente sus propias necesidades para renovarse a sí mismas y poder servir a los otros con mayor eficacia

La tarea de un líder es movilizar, concentrar, inspirar y renovar periódicamente la energía de las personas que lidera.

The first key shift is to stop evaluating performance by the number of hours employees put in and instead measure it by the value they produce. That means not just permitting intermittent renewal but actively encouraging it as a key to sustainable high performance. It also means treating employees like adults by giving them freedom to decide how best to get their work done and holding them accountable for their results, not the hours they work.