Quotes About Renewal

De bomen komen uit de grond en uit hun stam de twijgen. En iedereen vindt het heel gewoon dat zij weer bladeren krijgen. We zien ze vallen naar de grond en dan opnieuw weer groeien. Zo heeft de aarde ons geleerd dat al wat sterft zal bloeien.

Give me life Give me pain Give me myself again.

Yes, Dad, very simply, She Is Risen. Our Lady of the Wood.

Get off the cross, we need the wood.

It's strange," Moominmamma thought. "Strange that people can be sad, and even angry because life is too easy. But that's the way it is, I suppose. The only thing to do is to start life afresh.

Don't worry we shall have wonderful dreams, and when we wake up it'll be spring.

There are empty spaces that must be respected – those often long periods when a person can't see the pictures or find the words and needs to be left alone.

When one's dead, one's dead… This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

We'll always keep our bangles in brown pond water in the future. They're so much more beautiful that way

Luultavasti myrskyjä onkin vain siksi, että niiden jälkeen saataisiin auringonnousu.

I'll wind all the clocks,' he thought. 'Perhaps that makes the spring come a tiny bit earlier. And someone might wake up if I happen to break some big thing.

Märkvärdigt att en så stor och långdragen besvikelse så kvickt kan glömmas for en ny förälskelse men så var det.

To wash and iron and paint over and to feel sorry about all the irreparable things, and to know that there would still be cracks everywhere, and that all the things had been in much better shape before... No, no! And to put them all back into place in the dark and black rooms and try to find them cosy once more...

Taikuri lentää maailman ääriin ja hiiriäiti kömpii ruohomättäänsä alle mutta molemmat ovat yhtä onnellisia. Mutta ehkä kaikkein onnellisin on Muumipeikko, joka astelee äitinsä kanssa kotiin puutarhan läpi juuri kun kuu kalpenee päivänsarastuksessa ja puut huojuvat hiljaa mereltä puhaltavassa aamutuulessa. Nyt hiipii viileä syksy Muumilaaksoon. Sillä muuten ei voi tulla uutta kevättä.

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There are flowers growing, and saplings are striving to push up past the ashes. There is life amid death. Hope in the midst of adversity.

Carter once told me that we shouldn't fear putting the past behind us. He said that God is about doing new things—creating beauty out of the ashes of despair and defeat.

I want to believe in a new thing, Lord. I want that more than anything. I want to forget the old things—the bad and ugly things that have sent me here. Please let me see your hand in all of this. Let me see the path through this wilderness.

But this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.

It was time to lay his painful life upon the altar and let Jesus heal his hurt. It was time to come home.

We can't remake the past, but God holds our future in His hand, and there's always a place to begin anew.

I went into the woods with nothing to tether me to this world- to remember how to listen- to remember how to see- Someday I hope to stay who I am in the woods when out of them- Aware- Grateful- Awed

My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again.