61 Quotes About Renewal and Revolutions

 

Do you need a break? Would some uninterrupted downtime renew you?

Taking time to renew yourself can lead to a revolution of the mind, heart, and spirit.

Renewal is about growth. Revolution is about change. You need both to become the remarkable person you are meant to be.

Live! Let these quotes inspire you to renew yourself, and fight for your own personal revolution.

 

Take Time for Renewals and Revolutions

As wave is driven by wave

And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,

So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,

Always, for ever and new. What was before

Is left behind; what never was is now;

And every passing moment is renewed.

~ Ovid

You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be. ~ Marianne Williamson

Renewal requires opening yourself up to new ways of thinking and feeling. ~ Deborah Day

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

Change is supremely inconvenient, uncomfortable and naturally scary. Yet we only move through life through the process of change, reinvention and renewal… ~ Christine Evangelou

This leaf has fallen from its mother and withered. Yet the tree does not mourn the loss. While barren, it stands tall, ready to bear the burden of winter, for it knows that through hardship comes renewal. ~ D.J. Niko

Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there’s not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago. ~ Steven Hall

Love has no age, as it is always renewing itself. ~ Blaise Pascal

It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. ~ Vance Havner

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You are always one decision away from a totally different life. ~ Anonymous

The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as waves are to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh: ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms. ~ Johann Gottfried Herder

Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. ~ Abbie Hoffman

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own. ~ Abbie Hoffman

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that. ~ Richelle Mead

Transformation does not start with someone else changing you; transformation is an inner self reworking of what you are now to what you will be. ~ Byron Pulsifer

The unpredictable and irregular happenings of life’s cycles are an inherent part of their nature. There are droughts and heat waves, injuries occur. The lion eats the zebra - one is nourished, one dies – neither failed. ~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Careers and relationships also have their cycles of birth, growth, and death – to be followed by rebirth and the renewal of the cycle. ~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. It is infinite. There is no final revolution… ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

If you don’t like the way your life is going, redesign it. ~ T. D. Jakes

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem. ~ G. K. Chesterton

The sun comes forth from his chambers to scatter the shades of night, inviting you to the renewal of your labors… ~ Susannah Moodie

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable. ~ Bill Ayers

The receding wave does not despair; it knows it will rise again. ~ Marty Rubin

Transitions are a part of life, allowing for perpetual renewal. ~ David Simon

It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you implement that effort into your life every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs. Keep going. Remember why you started. ~ Jillian Michaels

It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not. ~ James Gordon

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. ~ Fidel Castro

Beautiful are those whose brokenness gives birth to transformation and wisdom. ~ John Mark Green

We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome. ~ Isabel Allende

Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak; it comes out of the past; its foundations are laid far back. ~ Wendell Phillips

We have it in our power to begin the world over again. ~ Thomas Paine

Whether we know it or not, our lives are acts of imagination and the world is continually re-imagined through us. ~ Michael Meade

Life depends on change and renewal. ~ Patrick Troughton (as Doctor Who)

I know this transformation is painful, but you’re not falling apart; you’re just falling into something different, with a new capacity to be beautiful. ~ William C. Hannan

You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ Oliver Goldsmith

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Nothing happens until the pain of remaining the same outweighs the pain of change. ~ Arthur Burt

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~ Henry Bergson

The wings of transformation are born of patience and struggle. ~ Janet S. Dickens

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~ Anonymous

I know, and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backward. ~ William Seward

Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work. ~ Ralph Marston

Revolution is but thought carried into action. ~ Emma Goldman

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation. ~ Bernie S. Siegel

I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds. ~ Debbie Ford

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. ~ Marilyn Ferguson

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville

Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over. ~ Nicole Sobon

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly. ~ James Russell Lowell

In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature’s way of forcing change – breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new can take their place. ~ Susan L. Taylor

When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul’s energy… ~ Mark Nepo

Nothing gets transformed in your life until your mind is transformed. ~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one. ~ Marianne Williamson

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ~ Helen Keller

There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power…To be born again is not to become somebody else, but to become ourselves. ~ Thomas Merton

Revolution begins with the self, in the self…The revolution ain’t out there. Yet. But it is here. ~ Toni Cade Bambara

Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams. ~ Tennessee Williams

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

 

 

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