Quotes About Renewal

And once I opened up all that real estate where before I'd been holding anger and regret, I found a lot of things were simpler than I'd made them.

In the first couple of weeks there were big piles of trash outside every house. All the stuff you couldn't find another use for and couldn't compost. Yogurt cups, torn trash bags, dirty diapers, hair-spray cans, paper towels. Sometimes you'd see a pile that was as high as your waist. Nathan said it was a purge, a cleanse. But you could just as well say that who we were went out with the empties. We will never get our selves back.

It's possible, when you've been married for twenty-five or thirty years, when your children have grown up and moved away, to keep coming back across the tail ends of conversations you started in a different decade, and to realize that whole areas of existence have lain dormant all that time, like seeds in an envelope. There's nothing unusual about that.

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

We are born in this cemetery, but must not despair. -Piet Soron, 1847

We are the wreck of what we have been, and the place of our own future demise,

She grew not on the land so much as out of it, like cottonwoods and bear grass. Each fall a part of her collapsed and withered alongside the wildflowers and grapevines she loved and used for healing. Each spring some new part of her erupted just as the mallows and poppies did, spreading her toes like roots in the truth and sustenance of ground, while branching out to the rest of the living world and stretching upwards towards the light.

I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, "Never give up hope, spring will come.

Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of the blooms was not the same.

Living structures can be only if they become; they can exist only if they change. Change and growth are inherent qualities of the life process.

Ich bin ein Wirtschaftler und erkläre Ihnen: Die Gegenwartskrise ohne eine vorherige Erneuerung des Geistes ökonomisch lösen zu wollen, ist Quacksalberei!

Korraga valdab mind aja nimetu raskemeelsus - see voolab ja voolab ning muutub, ja kui sa naased, ei leia sa enam midagi taas. Hüvasti jätta on raske - kuid naasta on vahel veelgi raskem.

He it is still and yet it is not he any longer.

Der junge Tag hauchte von weit her seinen reinen Atem über die dreckigen Höfe und die rauchigen Dächer in das Fenster, und es war immer noch Wald und Leben darin.

Für die Bäume ist es Frühjahr, sonst nichts. Alles andere geht sie nichts an.

Te jeseni 1939. život je ?oveku bio nanovo poklonjen - re?e Švarc. - ?ak su i kestenovi te jeseni ponovo procvetali, po drugi put, u Parizu - se?ate li se?

Femeia este ca pas?rea Pheonix, care arde È™i apoi renaÈ™te, întinerit?, din propria-i cenu??.

Tinere?ea trebuie s?-?i tr?iasc? prim?vara vie?ii.

Only by killing the First Parents can a way be found out of the conflict into personal life.

Sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come.

Only by proper performance in a social context does the individual fashion and renew himself by purposeful action in a world of shared meaning.

But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.