Quotes About Renewal

And as he came he saw that it was spring,A time abhorrent to the nihilistOr searcher for the fecund minimum.

Sigh for me, night-wind, in the noisy leaves of the oak. / I am tired. Sleep for me, heaven over the hill. / Shout for me, loudly and loudly, joyful sun, when you rise.

Spring is umbilical or else it is not spring.

You must become an ignorant man again And see the sun again with an ignorant eye And see it clearly in the idea of it.

Let the place of the solitaires Be a place of perpetual undulation. Whether it be in mid-sea On the dark, green water-wheel, Or on the beaches, There must be no cessation Of motion, or of the noise of motion, The renewal of noise And manifold continuation; And, most, of the motion of thought And its restless iteration, In the place of the solitaires, Which is to be a place of perpetual undulation

With destruction comes renovation.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Come Muse migrate from Greece and Ionia,Cross out please those immensely overpaid accounts,That matter of Troy and Achilles' wrath, and Aeneas', Odysseus' wanderings,Placard "Removed" and "To Let" on the rocks of your snowy Parnassus.

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)

A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.

Torn from its branch, the moon waned for a couple of weeks.

Because if you cling excessively to the past, you will miss the newness being enacted before your very eyes.

Sabbath is the visible acknowledgment that life is not defined by commoditization.

Sabbath becomes a decisive, concrete, visible way of opting for and aligning with the God of rest.

Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle Like seeing your family Being with your friends A fishing trip A hunting trip A night's sleep

Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

Each day to me should be more than an obstacle to be gotten over, a span of time to be endured, a sequence of hours to be survived. For me, each day came forth from the hand of God newly created and alive with opportunities to do his will. For me, each day was a series of moments and incidents to be offered back to God, to be consecrated and returned in total dedication to his will.

He seemed to be buffeted from both sides, challenged by his dreams, which revolted at the compromises of reality, and assaulted by reality which denounced the emptiness of all dreams. He seemed to spend himself in that struggle - the severest that a man can face; and he seemed to win by a constant renewal of effort in which he refused to sink either into placid acceptance of the world, or into self-contained satisfaction with his vision.

When bad habits become a habit, you have to turn over a new leaf.

Mein Freund erkannte tatsächlich, daß es so nicht weiterging, wenn er nicht in einer Zwangsjacke enden wollte. Er sah ein, daß er sich mehr den weltlichen Dingen zuwenden mußte. Also verließ er seine Wahngebäude, ließ sie zu wunderschönen Ruinen verfallen, die er nur noch selten aufsuchte. Und er konzentrierte sich nun auf das, was ihn umgab.

La cuerda cortada puede volver a anudarse, vuelve a aguantar, pero está cortada. Quizá volvamos a tropezar, pero allí donde me abandonaste no volverás a encontrarme. BERTOLT BRECHT

Gather those broad leaves, and all the rest, growing under the brushwood; unbrace his armour. Loose the helmet first

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and hope.