Quotes About Renewal

From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.

Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death. Because this death releases you into real life. You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.

Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again

Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers; But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms.

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees.

What is last year's snow to me, Last year's anything? The tree Budding yearly must forget How its past arose or set

When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms.

Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

I want to do for you what the spring does for the cherry trees

Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip through. One life for another.

As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.

No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.

The tree is stripped, All color, fragrance gone, Yet already on the bough, Uncaring spring!

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield.

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!