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Quotes About Renewal

A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.
~ Paulo Coelho
That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
~ Don DeLillo
After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.
~ Karel Capek
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
~ Felicia Hemans
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
~ Heraclitus
We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.
~ Pablo Neruda
We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.
~ Thomas Browne
People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Birth, not death, is the hard loss.
~ Louise Gluck
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.
~ Walt Whitman
What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.
~ Ovid
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion.
~ Dylan Thomas
I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.
~ Pattiann Rogers
Play for the adult is recreation, the renewal of life; play for the child is growth, the gaining of life." Tacked
~ Philip Roth
3) Take a vacation from your grievances. (4) The regularity of it isn't totally worthless.
~ Philip Roth
I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek, That now are wild, and do not once remember
~ Unknown
No one who meets Jesus ever stays the same.
~ Philip Yancey
Health and life, I would say, in the full and final sense of those words, are not what we die out of, but what we die into
~ Philip Yancey
No, the prayer is essential. I live on the prayers. They alone can strengthen me to fight despair and fatigue.
~ Philip Yancey
Somehow we need to reclaim the "goodnewsness" of the gospel
~ Philip Yancey
metáfora terrenal tomada del mundo de los negocios. El Espíritu nos recuerda que estas desilusiones son temporales; que son el preludio de una vida eterna con Dios, quien estimó necesario restaurar el nexo espiritual
~ Philip Yancey
Those who mourn sense the rupture of a world severed from God and thus edge closer to the Father who promises to make all things new.
~ Philip Yancey