Quotes About Renewal

In the words of the Joni Mitchell song, we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

Change is not the enemy of what is sacred. Change is the champion of what is sacred.

We know the old world is collapsing, but the contours of the new world are not yet entirely clear. Some of the call functions of the old models will survive. Many will not, at least not in their present form.

You never know when God's going to replace what you thought was gone forever. What a gift - a precious gift from God.

Pero hoy, se decía Juan, todo el mundo necesita hablar. De alguna manera inconsciente (con un chiste, con una palabra o con un grito) la gente necesita resumir el año. El inventario no tiene que ser exhaustivo, pero es imprescindible. Reflejará lo que nos falta y por lo mismo nos alentará a buscarlo

Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.

New York is a city that will be replaced by another city.

Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

there is no absence that cannot be replaced

Humankind exhausts, little by little, all illusions, including inferior notions of God swept away by atheism.

Markus Müller, "Interview with René Girard," Anthropoetics 2, no. 1 (June 1996): 3–5. 2

Gratitude is food for a weary soul

Your heart will always open again; if you let it.

She knelt over the grave, until her nose was touching the dirt. "When you are ready to inhabit a new skin," she said, "we will be waiting for you.

It will be people like us that save the world, she said: those who have walked the side of sorrow and seen the dawn.

This is something I know: no matter how far you have run, no matter how long you have been lost, it is never too late to be found.

Now when those dark times happen, I curl into a ball on my cot and make a cape with my blanket. I remind myself I am not dust, but I should be. I tell myself I am made of the same cells as life itself even if I am a mistake.

Every new day is the start of a better tomorrow!

The truth is, we cannot just think ourselves into a new way of being; we must live ourselves into a new way of being.

Just because you have traveled a path doesn't mean that you are meant to be on that path forever. That path is only useful to you as long as it retains its ability to support your growth. You can only hold on to something that you've outlived for so long before the universe will take it away from you.

Change your perspective. It could change your life.

The only way to have a future is to let go of the past

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person – beguiled, enchanted.