Renewal Quotes

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  The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Responsibility, Garden

  Wendell Berry (1978). “The unsettling of America: culture & agriculture”, Random House (NY)

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• To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Garden, Earth Day

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• Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

  Gertrude Stein

  Morning, Joy, Miracle

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• There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which really changes our lives from within. And yet the same instinct tells us that this change is a recovery of that which is deepest, most original, most personal in ourselves. To be born again is not to become somebody else, but to become ourselves.

  Thomas Merton

  Recovery, Creative, Instinct

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.52, Sounds True

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• I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Mean, Waiting, New Life

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• Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes.

  John W. Gardner

  Innovation, Purpose, Lines

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• So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Looks, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.48, Library of America

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• When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.

  Bell Hooks

  Love, Self, Growth

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• Hope is not pretending that troubles don't exist. It is the trust that they will not last forever, that hurts will be healed and difficulties overcome. It is faith that a source of strength and renewal lies within to lead us through the dark into the sunshine.

  Liz Chase

  Hurt, Lying, Sunshine

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• So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Change, Self, Long

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• Transitions are a part of life, allowing for perpetual renewal. When you experience the end of one chapter, allow yourself to feel the emotions of loss and rebirth. A bud gives way to a new flower, which surrenders to the fruit, which gives rise to a seed, which yields a new sprout. Even as you ride the roller coaster, embrace the centered internal reference of the ever-present witness.

  David Simon

  Flower, Loss, Yield

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• Gratitude is the most passionate transformative force in the cosmos. When we offer thanks to God or to another human being, gratitude gifts us with renewal, reflection, reconnection.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Gratitude, Reflection, Cosmos

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• When you take time with God and listen to His voice, He renews your strength and enables you to handle life.

  Joyce Meyer

  Life, Strength, God

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• The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

  Paul Gauguin

  Children, Men, Sea

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• Recovery is an important word and a vital concept. It means renewal of life and energy. Knowing how and when to recover may prove to be the most important skill in your life.

  James E. Loehr

  Recovery, Mean, Skills

  James E. Loehr (1994). “Toughness training for life: a revolutionary program for maximizing health, happiness, and productivity”, Plume Books

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• Each time we exhale, the world ends; when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It all transpires inside of us. In our consciousness, in our hearts. All the time.

  Tom Robbins

  Spiritual, Heart, World

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Life depends on change, and renewal.

  Patrick Troughton

  Depends

  "Fictional character: The Doctor". TV Series "Doctor Who", (4.3, "The Power of the Daleks"), 5 November - 10 December, 1966.

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• When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers and different grasses every year. When the spring winds blow, they blow in the same way. In the same places the same dear blossoms lift up the same sweet faces, yet they never weary us. When it rains, it rains as it always has. Even so would the same tasks which fill our daily lives put on new meanings if we wrought them in the spirit of renewal from within--a spirit of growth and beauty.

  Helen Keller

  Sweet, Spring, Rain

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.19, American Foundation for the Blind

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• You, too, can be carved anew by the details of your devotion.

  Mary Oliver

  Details, Devotion

  Mary Oliver (2005). “Long Life: Essays and Other Writings”, p.98, Da Capo Press

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• There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.

  Pope Francis

  Nature, Humanity, Our Relationship

  Pope Francis (2015). “Praise be to You - Laudato Si: On Care for our Common Home”, p.47, Ignatius Press

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• It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call common-place and to 're-present' them to us - the world - in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded.

  Gary Zukav

  Self, People, World

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• Love's a fire that needs renewal Of fresh beauty for its fuel.

  Thomas Campbell

  Love, Fire, Needs

  Thomas Campbell (1837). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell”, p.226

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• Hecate teaches us that the way to the vision that inspires renewal is to be found in moving through the darkness.

  Demetra George

  Moving, Inspire, Darkness

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• Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

  R. D. Laing

  Break Through, Diversity, May

  Politics of Experience (1967) ch. 6

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• Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.

  Boris Pasternak

  Self, People, Principles

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