Quotes About Renewal

You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because they only germinate after fire, and sometimes the burned landscape blooms most lavishly.

I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.

Only when the honey turns to dust are you free.

The utilitarian argument against fiestas, parades, carnivals, and general public merriment is that they produce nothing. But they do: they produce society. They renew the reasons why we might want to belong and the feeling that we do.

stayed there for a restorative year of catching my breath and looking around and not being desperate for time or money.

I have come to long not to see new places but to return and know the old ones more deeply, to see them again.

Most people are afraid of the dark. Literally when it comes to children, while many adults fear, above all, the darkness that is the unknown, the unseeable, the obscure. And yet the night in which distinctions and definitions cannot be readily made is the same night in which love is made, in which things merge, change, become enchanted, aroused, impregnated, possessed, released, renewed.

Even decay is a form of transformation into other living things, part of the great rampage of becoming that is also unbecoming.

The words shot through Vivi's bones and blood and muscle, and her body relaxed, so that when her feet touched the ground they met the earth differently, as though they had found roots that reached deep down and anchored to something tender and undamaged.

Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.

She had treated her life as a room that had to be completely refurnished.

The tears of our devastation fertilize the soil of our evolution.

Owning things is boring - obligations and responsibilities. It interest me less than creating things. Right now, I'd be prepared to give everything I own to my children and start again from scratch.

Une porte s'ouvrit. Une jeune fille entra. Le printemps entrait avec elle.

Il ne faut pas comprendre, il faut voir. Paris vous guérira. PARIS VOUS GUÉRIRA DU PASSÉ !

I took a little celebrational nap.

No matter how far you have run, no matter how long you have been lost, it is never too late to be found.

There would be no more record of who was rich and who was poor. Everyone in this new and divinely inspired world order would begin anew.

Arise! Arise! Put on your strength, O Zion! Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city; for the uncircumcised and the unclean shall never again enter you. Shake off the dust from yourself, stand up, O captive Jerusalem; release the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

Once the moon gets to be full somebody - some man or other - goes up every day and slices bits of one side until there isn't any more,and then after a bit a new one grows. Men do that with all sorts of things, actually - rose bushes for instance.... The man who slices the bits off brings them down here and then they're used for making those lights on the cars. Clever isn't it... They only last about one night, I should think, because you hardly ever see them shining by day.

Just now I was thinking that I'd died and had to come to life again, had to build up a life myself. Only the new edifice has to be built with the ruins of the old. Or rather, I feel like a tree that has been blasted level with the ground, with only the roots still living. Some even of the roots are dead, some I have to kill, the rest have to grow again somehow.

If I've learned one lesson in all my days, it's this: Life starts new, every sunrise.

Rebuilding us. Isn't that what the spirit requires, when we climb over the wreckage of our lives, sometimes, we go on to make our lives our own affirmation? We are perfect expressions of perfect Love, here and now. There is no permanent injury.

True, the same young Jonathan Seagull was there that had always lived behind his golden eyes, but the outer form had changed.