Quotes About Rebirth

Redemption restores rather than obliterates creation.

teems of times and happy returns. The same anew'.

It feels good to live after death. It feels good to not be dead. It feels so good to find myself alive..

Whereas literalists and fundamentalists tend to choose one pole of any dilemma or opposition, whereas modern political parties and religious groups tend towards demonizing each other, the creative individual must be born again and again in the crucible created by the tension between opposing instincts, conflicted feelings, and contrasting ideas.

Hearing a story awakens the mythic story living in each of us. It places us in a "mythic condition" that reconnects us to the core imagination and living story at the center of our soul. Being touched by myth carries us to the center where the world is always ending and always beginning again.

Do you know that if you close your eyes really tightly, so you can see stars, when you open them again it's a brand new world.

He discovered its self-accumulating, self-reproducing nature and gave the spiral a motto (perhaps the only one associated with a geometric shape): Eadem mutato resurgo—Although changed, I arise again the same.

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

Later that evening, Norma Jeane said good night to Bill and returned home. Standing before a mirror she picked up a lipstick and scribbled, 'This is the end of Norma Jeane.' Marilyn Monroe was born.

El que regresa de un entierro, como el que sale de una pesadilla, experimenta el mismo bienestar.

I'll turn over a new leaf.

Come back sound, wind and limb.

El segundo nacimiento, el verdadero, es nacer por el dolor a la conciencia de la muerte incesante, de que estamos siempre muriendo.

There are no bad dogs. Every cat gets more lives.

People of the Second Chance hold to the promise that broken things can be made beautiful again.

The world comes to life. Wisps of green steal across the fields, rich with the promise of spring. Tiny shoots push through the soil. Virgin buds uncoil at the tips of branches. Soft, fresh grass sweeps and swells across the meadows. Thornbushes blossom on the hillsides. The walnut tress have survived the winter, though their antlered crowns still stand bare. Fresh leaves reach longingly for rain from the sky.

It is possible that characters need to die for the author to make her moral point, for the author himself to regenerate by letting go of an ideal identity, or for the world to recognize the necessity of certain ideas and ideals to die.

Potser si torno de puntetes m'acollirà la mateixa divagatòria complaença que enyorava, i no hauré de retre comptes d'una tan llarga absència. Pugnen els versos per obrir-se pas entre la fronda de vells moviments obscurs i contumaços, però l'ordre restablert amb esforç és una melodia que ja puc repetir amb dits insegurs només tancant els ulls.

is bound by pratityasamutpada, the twelve-membered chain of causality. And the first link in this chain is ignorance. Ignorance starts the chain that binds the soul to the cycle of rebirth and suffering. Only when ignorance is overcome (through learning what the events in our lives have to teach us!) can we liberate ourselves from starting the cycle yet one more time and so finally achieve nirvana.

We need a sexier term for retirement. It doesn't fit anymore.

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

La clave para que los partidos vivan un renacimiento y mejoren su eficacia es que recuperen la capacidad de inspirar, estimular y movilizar a la gente —en especial a los jóvenes

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future." – Oscar Wilde

The snake was first of all a symbol of eternal life (like the moon), since each time it shed its skin it seemed reborn. It represented cosmic continuity within natural change—spiritual continuity within the changes of material life.