“God does not patch up the old life,or make certain repairs on the old life;He gives a new life, through the new birth.”
“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.”
“I used to hope that if we had to give up our old life, we'd get a new one.”
“If you want a new life, first give praise for having the old one!”
“At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.”
“Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new.”