Quotes About Renewal

I feel the thinness of me, the littleness of me, and the vastness and the weirdness of me. I become the darkness all around, I become the night. Tomorrow I will be a different Davie, and I will be the day.

Amazingly, even in midst of trauma, people continue to smile, to love, to celebrate, to create, and to renew.

He now stood outside on the curb in front of a modern building in the middle of a city that had seen more prosperous days. It was making a comeback of sorts, to the extent that steel, asphalt, and concrete and the populations that reside in and on them can have second chances. And it was a historical city with many sites of cultural significance that could draw tourists.

Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

Always, before, whenever one culture went into decline, there were others ready to take up the slack. If Rome toppled, there was light shining in Constantinople, then the Baghdad Caliphate and in China. If Philippine Spain turned repressive, Holland welcomed both refugees and science. When most of Europe went mad, in the mid–twentieth century, the brightest minds moved to America. When America grew self-indulgent and riven by new civil war, that migration sloshed and shifted East.

Each purpose, each mission, is meant to be fully lived to the point where it becomes empty, boring, and useless. Then it should be discarded. This is a sign of growth, but you may mistake it for a sign of failure.

But in time the night, as all nights must, came to an end, and the morning dawned clear and bright.

Everything I've ever let go of had claw marks on it.

Recuérdame que tome nota en el registro de lo positivo que sería verte salir de ese caparazón.

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life.

The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.

Love, who changest all, change me nevermore! Love, who changest all, change my sorrow sore!

Another of the considerable advantages is the improved quality of life as your broken sleeping patterns repair and you begin to catch up on the lost sleep. This will have a phenomenal impact on your quality of life. Waking up feeling fresh and ready to go is one of the great feelings in life.

there's never been a day that lasts forever, just as the sun sets, it will rise at dawn for ever after…'.

Presume not that I am the thing I was; For God doth know, so shall the world perceive, That I have turn'd away my former self; So will I those that kept me company.

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII)

Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

In springtime, the only pretty ring time Birds sing, hey ding A-ding, a-ding Sweet lovers love the spring—

The April's in her eyes: it is love's Spring, And these the showers to bring it on..

Short summers lightly have a forward spring.

My desolation does begin to make a better life.

When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again?