Quotes About Self-renewal

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up

Presume not that I am the thing I was; For God doth know, so shall the world perceive, That I have turn'd away my former self; So will I those that kept me company.

There was something pathetic about the rejected wife bravely pulling herself together, joining a tennis club, doing a photography course, cutting her hair, venturing timidly back out onto the single scene.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

She was stuffing her innards back. Sewing herself up, putting her skin, her make-up, her party frock back on.

The only reason I have lived so long is that I let go of my past. Shut the door on grief on regret on remorse. If I let them in, just one self-indulgent crack, whap, the door will fling open gales of pain ripping through my heart blinding my eyes with shame breaking cups and bottles knocking down jars shattering windows stumbling bloody on spilled sugar and broken glass terrified gagging until with a final shudder and sob I shut the heavy door. Pick up the pieces one more time.

So, I either needed a new me. Or a new planet. And I didn't yet know how to find either. Which is why I felt suicidal.

Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again

The snake that can't peel off its skin can't grow. The soul is trapped inside the body; just like a tree inside a seed.

Wayfaring becomes "an ongoing process of growth and development, or self-renewal." Transport, on the other hand, is "essentially destination-oriented.