Quotes About Renewal

Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.

But if the great ideas of the past are to remain young and vital, each generation must, in turn, think them through and rediscover them in their pristine newness.

After years of a very busy life, I found myself with no commitments. It was a very free-floating state that was open, perhaps, to new ideas.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

Truly, were I every evening to depict sunrise, and every morning to see it, still I should cry, like the children, Once more, once more!

To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

cuando un número importante de personas cambia su modo de pensar y de comportarse, la cultura lo hace también, y una nueva era comienza.

creative destruction" as Schumpeter called it—

God break me out of this stiff life I've made

Yes I know: the thread you have to keep finding, over again, to follow it back to life; I know. Impossible, sometimes.

Our humanity is so beautiful, but it needs to be transformed

In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.

She'd hoped, like one of those desert rattlesnakes, to shed the skin of her anguish and leave it behind her in the Mexican dirt.

The book is water in the desert.

It's a luxury to slough the dust of the road off your skin, to soap up and stand beneath a spray of warm water, to watch it pool at your feet, grimy and brown, before it circles the drain and disappears forever.

Everything we've been through?" Soledad says. "It'll all be worth it. We'll leave it behind and have a new beginning." Rebeca looks at the floor but her eyes are unfocused. "Like it never happened," she says. They

You have to wake up a virgin each morning.

Change nothing so that everything will be different

People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the world, we can't touch the place life comes from. Whatever made the plants and animals and people spring up in the first place will always be there, and life will spring up again.

There's a perfectly good chance that this is a day you're going to remember for the rest of your life. This is the day when you got your second chance, when everything changed.

Only in the early morning light of day, and of life, can we see the world without its shadows. Truth requires new beginnings.

Nature rejuvenates so quickly, so completely. Though we often view ourselves otherwise, we are nature.