Quotes About Renewal

There's no other way I can think of to put it—but when you let him move into your life, the garbage moves out. The anger starts to go, and the resentment, and the fear.

Deep in their roots,' Roethke had said, 'all flowers keep the light.

Thank you, God, for second chances

May our sleep be deep and soft,' " he whispered, " 'so our work be fresh and hard.

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb. When you let God fill you with His love and forgiveness, the things you think you desperately want to hold on to start falling away  . . . and we hardly notice their passing.

The sin life in us must be transformed into the spiritual life." "How?" "Through sacrifice and obedience.

He knew only that he must get on with his life, which lately seemed to have passed him by.

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

It is our lot to take what we have, make of it what we will. We are meant to finger the leftovers, rock our old dolls, clutch wooden angels to our breasts.

Mrs. Miniver suddenly understood why she was enjoying the forties so much better than she had enjoyed the thirties: it was the difference between August and October, between the heaviness of late summer and the sparkle of early autumn, between the ending of an old phase and the beginning of a fresh one.

Sometimes a person's got to pick a day to start their life over and never look back.

People themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

He must live again, he should, he did.

It's never to late- never to late to change your life,never to late to be happy

Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

What is usual is not what is always. As sometimes, in old age, hearing comes back. Footsteps resume their clipped edges, birds quiet for decades migrate back to the ear. Where were they? By what route did they return? A woman mute for years forms one perfect sentence before she dies.

I learned this especially from sons and daughters of men who were abusive fathers. Once these fathers stopped drinking and raging, and showed that they wanted a loving relationship with their children, the grown kids I spoke with were eager to take them back into their lives.

if you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always gotten

The spring came suddenly; the rains stopped, the days grew noticeably longer, and the afternoon light felt powdery, as if it might blow away.

Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.

You've got to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

And when I shed my old skin, what soft and tender flesh did I expose?