Quotes About Renewal

Ah, compañeros, otra cosa quiero decirles: aquí uno se desespera de tanto papeleo, de tanto oficio, de tanto que se tienen que levantar actas burocráticas. Papel y papel. Mire ahora: ¡ya todos los papeles volaron por los aires! El terremoto todo lo alevantó. (Alonso Mixteco)

If pleasure is Nature's seal of approval, sleep is her reward.

longer familiar to anyone, not in this new place. Gone are those who understand how you became yourself. Gone are the reasons lurking in the past that might excuse your mistakes. Gone is everything beyond your name on the day of your arrival, and even that may ultimately be surrendered.

But listening to or participating in music can restore a person to himself, as the epigraph to this chapter suggests. People need to recapture what has been excluded during working hours: their subjectivity.

The desire for solitude as a means of escape from the pressure of ordinary life and as a way of renewal is vividly illustrated by Admiral Byrd's account of manning an advanced weather base in the Antarctic during the winter of 1934. He insisted on doing this alone.

America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.

Let the sun shine in.

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.

Dans la nature rien ne se crée, rien ne se perd, tout change. In nature nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes.

Just a tiny little pain, Three days of heavy rain, Three days of sunlight, Everything will be alright, Just a tiny little pain.

We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater, a sense of life in which man fearlessly makes himself master of what does not yet exist, and brings it into being. And everything that has not been born can still be brought to life if we are not satisfied to remain mere recording organisms.

In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.

Todos somos madera, y el fuego es eterno.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born

I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.

Cuatro principios a tener en cuenta: Lo contrario es también frecuente. No basta mover para renovar. No basta renovar para mejorar. No hay nada que sea absolutamente empeorable

La nueva miel labramos con los dolores viejos, la veste blanca y pura pacientemente hacemos, y bajo el sol bruñimos el fuerte arnés de hierro.

I thought my fireplace dead and stirred the ashes. I burned my fingers.

Last night, as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

Vengo de morirme, no de haber nacido. De haber nacido, me voy

Jokainen haavoittava kivi on heitettävä ennen kuin asiat paranevat.

To see it is to become different." I think so.

is there anyhope for me?" "For a comeback, you mean?" He shook his head. "is there any chance I'll turn from plastic back to flesh?