Quotes About Renewal

Life is made up of many comings and goings and for everything that we take with us,we must leave something behind

Oh, wise physician of a wasted land!

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

The great renewal of the theological understanding of the Lutheran doctrine of justification in German and Scandinavian Lutheranism since 1917 has certainly influenced preaching. But it was not enough to keep us from offering sacrifices in the house of God to the heathen gods of nation and race.

Every single one of our acts is ruled by the laws of economy. When we first wake up in the morning we trade rest for profit. When we go to bed at night we give up potentially profitable hours to renew our strength. And throughout our day we engage in countless transactions. Each time we find a way to minimize our effort and increase our gain we are

I wanted love to grow back, like the grass when it's mown down. To grow differently, if need be, like children's teeth, like hair, like fingernails. To spring up at will, wild and untended. The chill of the sheets made me shudder, and so did the warmth that followed when I lay down.

But everyone thought you were dead. You didn't write, that's why you're alive now.

Jesus sleeps on the cross by the church door. When he wakes up, he'll be old. The air in the village will be brighter than his naked skin.

There cannot be new things in England. There can be old things freshly presented or new things that pretend to be old.

England is always remaking herself, her cliffs eroding, her sandbanks drifting, springs bubbling up in dead ground. They regroup themselves while we sleep, the landscapes through which we move, and even the histories that trail us; the faces of the dead fade into other faces, as a spine of hills into the mist.

But now I am as sweet as a May morning.

Yes, but friendship should be less exhausting . . . it should be restorative

Storm H. D., 1886 - 1961 You crash over the trees, you crack the live branch— the branch is white, the green crushed, each leaf is rent like split wood. You burden the trees with black drops, you swirl and crash— you have broken off a weighted leaf in the wind, it is hurled out, whirls up and sinks, a green stone.

You tell me the word pristine was perfect. It was the cure.

DOSTIE: Let's be honest here. People? Sometimes they suck. But kids, well, they're like a new snowfall, you know?

MOLLY: You don't like New Years Eve? Are you insane? It's literally the best holiday ever. You just party all night and it doesn't matter what stupid stuff you do because the year's over and you get a brand new start in the morning.

Hope dies all the time. And yet we need to believe it will come back and attach itself to a new cause - a new love, a new house, something that gives us a sense of purpose, which is ultimately what hope is.

If you run out of strength today, borrow some from tomorrow

After the rain, good weather. In the wink of an eye, the universe throws off its muddy clothes.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

To Ben, love was the flame in which he wanted to be reborn. He wanted to be remade by it.

You're unwinding yourself like a spool. What happens when there's no more thread?" "Then I spin more

I feel light. I am unwinding. I am unfurling like a banner.