Quotes About Renewal

Oaks are the true conservatives; They hold old leaves till summer gives A green exchange.

Hoy, en plena primavera, dejo abierta la puerta de la jaula al pobre pájaro azul.

Así tú para mí. En medio de los martirios de la vida, me refrescas y alientas con el aire de tus alas, porque si partiste en tu forma humana al viaje sin retorno, siento la venida de tu sér inmortal, cuando las fuerzas me faltan o cuando el dolor tiende hacia mí el negro arco.

Todo ser é um permanente deixar de ser. A vida acontece morrendo. Como o rio. Como a chama.

A alma dos poetas está cheia de objetos decrépitos. E é por isso que fazem poesia, para trazê-los de novo à vida. A poesia opera ressurreições.

I need new prayers, the old ones don't work anymore.

That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

In the universe we have not to do with repetitions, each time that a cycle is passed, something new is added to the world's evolution and to at its human stage of development

When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried,When the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic has died,We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it—lie down for an eon or two,Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew.

We can also recite the failures of institutions and systems that are near and dear to us. The good news is that the past can be forgiven.

Offering of Self to God O Lord, we all have things we need to release. With your help we will lay aside all in life that burdens us, leaving behind those things that do not matter and clinging only to the things that do. Amen.

...the cypress tree is turning green, drunk with the forest.

Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

I know you're tired but come, this is the way.

...rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky.

You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Come, whoever you are! Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. This is not a caravan of despair. It doesn't matter if you've broken your vow a thousand times, still and yet again come!

Something opens our wings, something makes boredom and hurt disappear.

Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water.