Quotes About Renewal

mission is defined as what you do to join in God's world-renewing project.

Fiction gives us the second chance that life denies us.

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. -Paul Theroux, novelist (b. 1941)

I wanted to find a new self in a distant place, and new things to care about.

instead of tearing down the building, solidly made with a four-acre footprint, it was turned into a center for the arts—gallery upon gallery, with coffee shops and restaurants. Here and there iron clumps of machinery have been left on pedestals, looking like vorticist sculptures.

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us

All the crockery in China had been smashed – flung over the years in all the periodic convulsions for which China was famous. All the blood-stained carpets had been tossed away. All the ancestors' portraits had been destroyed. All the bodies had been buried. It was a country of bare rooms and empty shelves, like this apartment

calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month.

Write the story of a contemporary cured of his heartbreaks solely by long contemplation of a landscape

Yes, my dear," she said out loud to herself, "you took quite a fall." And felt pure amazement at the long time it had taken before she had finally found again the ground.

It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

God always offers us a second chance in life.

When someone leaves, its because someone else is about to arrive- I'll find love again.

If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.

With the rain, falls the wisdom of heaven.

It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over. Slowly, I began to realize that I could not go back and force things to be as they once were: those two years, which up until then had seemed an endless inferno, were now beginning to show me their true meaning.

Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: That's the cycle of life. You may think you're going to die, but you live on in me. It's thanks to you that I'm alive, because I can breathe. It's also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing.

Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black.

We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.

Visit your soul; don't visit your past.

Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life

Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)

When faced by any loss, there's no point in trying to recover what has been, it's best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.

Flowers teach us that nothing is permanent: not their beauty, not even the fact that they will inevitably wilt, because they will still give new seeds. Remember this when you feel joy, pain, or sadness. Everything passes, grows old, dies, and is reborn.