Quotes About Renewal

Any real act of creation is first an act of destruction. Picasso said it, and it's true. We don't build on the old, we tear it down. And start fresh.

Clara rose with exaggerated calm. She took Jane in her arms and felt the old body creak back into place. Then she said a little prayer of thanks to the gods that give grace. The grace to cry and the grace to watch.

he knew most places felt just a little sad in spring, when the bright and playful snow had gone and the flowers and trees hadn't yet bloomed. The

There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole".

Maybe, said his brain and his upbringing, if you make enough tea and small talk, time reverses and all bad things are undone.

You lost your heart, your memories, your laughter, your brain and it even took your bones. Eventually it all came back, but different. Rearranged.

You lost your heart, your memories, your laughter, your brain and it even took your bones. Eventually it all came back, but different. Rearranged. 'Had you known Madame

This is the first day of the rest of my life. So why is my hair sticking up like a cockerel?

Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.

To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even though it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.

happy endings start with new beginnings.

Happy indeed is the naturalist: to him the seasons come round like old friends; to him the birds sing: as he walks along, the flowers stretch out from the hedges, or look up from the ground, and as each year fades away, he looks back on a fresh store of happy memories.

Non pas, tu t'en doutes, celle d'un retour en arrière aux Lumières, à la raison, à la république et à l'humanisme, ce qui n'aurait, je t'ai dit pourquoi, aucun sens, mais une tentative de les penser à nouveaux frais, non pas « comme avant », mais au contraire après et à la lumière de la déconstruction qui a eu lieu.

Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.

There's no use dieting in my condition. I've got to wait until I can begin from scratch.

Kendini varolan? yenilemekle, betimlemekle ve yeniden üretmekle s?n?rlamamak, aksine henüz olmam?? olan? icat etmeyi ya da düÅŸlemeyi bilmek…

Antes de conocerlo se había sentido muy sola. Le conté que por las mañanas yo decía el nombre de Max incluso antes de abrir los ojos. Ella me dijo que su vida había sido como escuchar un disco horrible una y otra vez, cada día, y en un instante le habían dado vuelta al disco, y sonaba música. Max la oyó y me sonrió. Ves, amor, ahora estamos en la cara B. (Del cuento Hasta la vista)

I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.

i am rejuvenated bones rising from the dear floor where they found you

We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

Thus the sum of things is ever being renewed, and mortals live dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.

What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.