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Renewal Quotes
"When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginnings and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree."
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"Today's tears sweep the road to tomorrow's blessings."
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"Until a seed falls to the ground and dies, it does not become a tree that later yields many fruits and multitude of seeds. We must embrace the thought of death for us to have greater lives."
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"You must prune to bloom. If the dead weight is not pruned and removed, it compromises the quality, performance, and output of the vine. When you prune what's not working in your life, you make the space and place for renewal to happen and for new growth to spring forth."
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"Our self- development is all about conquering our fears and overcoming our restrictions."
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"The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again."
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"There will be times in your life when things simply have to be replaced because they are tired, broken, worn out, harmful, outdated, or irrelevant. Take an inventory of the things that no longer serve your best and highest good so you can replace them with things which do."
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"Harsh winters precede pleasant springs."
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"It's a new day. Yesterday's failure is redeemed at the sunrise."
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"The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like."
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"And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things."
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"And the day inevitably comes when the scrapbook of summer, smeared with ice cream slurps and sweat stains, gives way to that new clean white notebook, spine unbroken, begging to be smudged with the enthusiasm of a number two pencil and a mind open to the possibilities."
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"You have to work on it. You have to meditate on God's Word, which itself will change you and transform you into the image and character of God."
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"There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it."
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"There was a moment when any hope within me froze solid and I was finally emptied of all energy to fight the cold. And at the very point of that very surrender, when I became convinced that I must bow to a world that would be forever frigid, God cupped the hands of my soul and poured in the warmth of Christmas."
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"Accept that you are not finished, and a new and better life is just beginning."
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"There are an incalculable number of things within me that I frantically wish to be emptied of, and despite my most earnest efforts to remove them, they remain. And it is Easter that reminds me that God empties out tombs."
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"God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past."
"New year is a day, to tune the rhythm called SOUL, with best chords called EXPERIENCES and play the guitar called LIFE."
"Die every night so in the morning you are reborn."
"Too often my solution is to let something die because I can't keep it alive, when God's solution is to let something live because His Son already died for it."
"A tree does not despair when a few of its leaves fall off because there is more room for greener ones to take their place."
"All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight."
"What needs to be cleansed and refreshed in your life? What yucky stuff has created a stagnant and negative environment that muddies your waters and depletes your energy? Be willing to stir things up and make it messy for a short while so you may enjoy more clarity ad vibrancy for a long while."
"You cannot till this year's land using last year's sun."
"Do you hold fond memories in your heart which you would like to experience again? Have you made mistakes which you wish you could go back and correct? Has life turned out differently than you ever planned for or expected? The wonderful thing about Second Chances is that you get to take what was once created or has already happened and REDO it to make it better."
"The easiest way to be reborn is to live and feel life everyday."
"Are there things in your life that could use a face lift? What neglected treasures could be given new life by restoring them to their former glory? When you renovate and restore, you show respect for what was and bring it back to a state of beauty, usefulness, value, or vigor."
"But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem:they might point to the catkins hangingfrom the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the raindescending on black earth in early spring. ---And we, who always think of happinessrising, would feel the emotionthat almost baffles uswhen a happy thing falls."
"Don't judge yourself by your past, you no longer live there."
"You can't clean your dirty past as if you are cleaning a dirty window! All you can do is to create a clean future!"
"My dear,we are all made of water. it's okay to rage. sometimes it's okay to rest. to recede."
"My fear of endings too often blocks my hope of beginnings."
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