Quotes About Renewal

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about. —Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

In the face of death, life seemed more attractive.

It is so nice to be somewhere I don't know. To be somewhere new, when the world has felt so stale and familiar.

Everything passes—joy follows pain, warmth melts the ice

Room Imagine forgiving yourself completely. The goals you didn't reach. The mistakes you made. Instead of locking those flaws inside to define and repeat yourself, imagine letting your past float through your present and away like air through a window, freshening a room. Imagine that.

The best thing about rock bottom is the rock part. You discover the solid bit of you. The bit that can't be broken down further. The thing that you might sentimentally call a soul. At our lowest we find the solid ground of our foundation. And we can build ourselves anew.

Si existe una manera de salir, una salida que no sea la muerte en sí, entonces el camino es a través de las palabras. Pero más que para salir de la mente por completo, las palabras nos ayudan a salir de una mente, y nos proporcionan las piezas para construir otra, similar pero mejor.

Are there any other lives at all or is it just the furnishings that change?

Maybe life was automatically better when the sun shone so confidently in April. Everything seemed more vivid, more colourful and alive than it had done in England.

You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can't be reversed within a lifetime, however much we try .

Als er een uitweg is, een andere uitweg dan de dood, dan loopt de ontsnappingsroute via de woorden. Maar woorden helpen eerder om 'een' geest te verlaten dan dé geest, en ze geven ons de bouwstenen om een nieuwe geest op te bouwen, identiek maar beter, vlak bij de oude maar met een steviger fundament en heel vaak ook een beter uitzicht.

Every second of every day we are entering a new universe.

Well, you can take that fire and put it in the ocean.

Doing one thing differently is often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can't be reversed in a lifetime, however much we try...

And it was different because, above all other things, that heavy and painful Book of Regrets had been successfully burnt to dust.

S'il y a une issue, une issue qui ne soit pas la mort elle-même, alors elle passe par les mots. Mais plutôt que de quitter totalement l'esprit, les mots nous aident à quitter UN esprit et nous donnent les outils pour en bâtir un autre, similaire mais meilleur, proche de l'ancien mais avec des fondations plus fermes, et souvent avec une meilleure vue.

No, the shock was that she felt like she was about to live. Or at least, that she could imagine wanting to be alive again. And she wanted to do something good with that life.

Too many memories. Too many ghosts. It was time to be someone else again. I suppose the way I understand my life is as a kind of Russian doll, with different versions inside other versions, each one enclosing the other, whereby the life before isn't seen from the outside but is still there.

Words are seeds. Language is a way back to life. And it is sometimes the most vital comfort we have.

You haven't failed, In a moment of sadness. You haven't lost, In a moment of defeat. You are not a statue Standing in an eternal contrapposto. You are a thing in motion: A rising tide, a cresting wave. Your vast depths witness Every marvel, every wonder: You are, then, marvelous, And wonderful. So: Don't fight the moon. Allow every tide. And give all your wrecked ships The space to hide.

Doing one thing differently is often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can't be reversed within a lifetime, however much we try . . .

According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real life lesson

Venid a mí en mis sueños, y luego durante el día estaré bien otra vez. Porque entonces la noche más que pagará el anhelo desesperado del día.