Quotes About Renewal

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

What is good is always being destroyed

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean.

Quando soffri può sembrarti che questa sofferenza duri per sempre. Ma, sii certa, non sarà così. L'inverno si trasforma sempre in primavera. Nessun inverno dura per sempre.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

There is the striking chapter on "The Five Deaths of the Faith" near the end of The Everlasting Man, arguably Chesterton's masterpiece, in which he declares that "Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

When Chesterton was asked why he became Catholic, he answered, "To get rid of my sins."8 He says that only the Catholic Church can do that, and that when a man steps out of the confessional, he is only five minutes old. His whole life has started over again.

Something about the cold always makes me feel young again.

k?lo'smi lokaksayakrt pravrddho lok?nsam?hartumiha pravrttah.

Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.

They take you. They treat you. They transform you.

So this was what it felt like to lose yourself. Again. To let go of your future and let it rise up and up until finally you couldn't see it anymore, and you knew that you had to start over.

Maybe she should give up. Not by turning herself in, but by flying away. Travel back across the Atlantic. Become a Canadian. Live a tranquil life in the 'burbs of Toronto. Marry a bland businessman who drank Molson and followed the Maple Leafs.

If you catch a lizard, its tail might fall off its body.]

Midway on our life's journey, I found myself In dark woods, the right road lost.

Days and nights among the trees is not time off the books. It is not a subtraction from the days of life but an addition to them.

The Potomac had taken away Linda and the boys. The Rio Negro had given him Daniela. One river had swallowed his heart; another river, halfway around the world, had gifted it back. A different heart, beaten up, scarred, but a beating heart at least.

Let's get lost in the dark, forget who we were, and resurface as something new.

Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.

Breaks are not a sign of sloth but a sign of strength

take meaningful restorative breaks

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it is springtime and I am blind"... Clarity depends on contrast - 134