Quotes of Renewal - somelinesforyou

“ One of the things that's always interested me, from the first book on, is unintended consequences. ”

- Unknown

“ Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams. ”

- Scott Adams

“ There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground. ”

- Pope Paul VI

“ Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives. ”

- Mary Ann Brussat

“ 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. ”

- Jane E. Brody

“ The organized person… makes the most of his time and goes to his bed for the night perfectly relaxed for rest and renewal. ”

- George M. Adams

“ 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

“ Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love. ”

- Terence

“ Caring must strengthen into commitment and commitment into action if we are to preserve and nurture one of the greatest forces for rebirth and renewal this nation has… voluntarism. ”

- Marlene Wilson

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

- Wendell Berry

“ This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement — that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it — that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings. ”

- Walter Lippmann

“ Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ I am miles ahead with ideas and excitement in the mind, and that is where it all begins. I feel that when I get myself organized, and am in one place long enough, I will have so much energy of mind and belief that I will be able to accomplish infinitely more… ”

- Anne Perry

“ The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token to save it from that ruin, which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable… ”

- Hannah Arendt

“ While others still slept, He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this, otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God. ”

- Andrew Murray

“ Present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God: … your reasonable service. Do not conform yourself to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a "will to renewal." This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of "crises" — of rupture, repudiation and resistance… ”

- Eugene Ionesco
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