Renewal Quotes

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is no way to do it except to do it.

— Anne Truitt

Even at the moment of your failure, right then, you are beautiful.

— Lidia Yuknavitch

The healing is in the return, not in never having wandered to begin with.

— Sharon Salzberg

There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.

— Leonard Cohen

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

— Aldous Huxley

You are your best thing.

— Toni Morrison

Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

— James Baldwin

won’t you celebrate with me / what i have shaped into / a kind of life?

— Lucille Clifton

Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives.

— Katherine May

Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking.

— Antonio Machado

The next chapter begins with today's choices.

— Carl Bard

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

— Toni Morrison

Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet.

— L.M. Montgomery

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

— Joseph Campbell

But it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

— Lewis Carroll

Things do not change; we change.

— Henry David Thoreau

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

— Henry David Thoreau

The sun is new each day.

— Heraclitus

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

— Marcus Aurelius

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

— Lao Tzu

The beginning is always today.

— Mary Shelley

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Nature's first green is gold, Nothing gold can stay.

— Robert Frost