Renewed Appreciation Quotes

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

When I got out of the hospital, it was one of those classic things - you're looking death in the eye, and it changes you. I thought, I ought to go back on the road.

Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.

I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.

Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times

And then we were kissing.....The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I rally like my body; this cancer-ruined thing I'd spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened.

Each week, from a different point of view, you get another look at God, and that's exciting to me.

Looking at Mount Kenya in the morning is a holistic experience. I go back at least once a year.

I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.

A modern arboretum brings us that ancient forest and, with it, a changed apprehension of time, a renewed appreciation of the elegance of natural form and a renewed sense of wonder at the variety of the world we inhabit.

Motherhood has made me a much better person. I see everything from a new perspective - with a sense of wonderment.

People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.