Quotes About Renewal

The year is round! The wheel of the world must spin! That is why up here they dance the Dark Morris, to balance it. They welcome the winter because of the new summer deep inside it!

And his head is on fire with new things[...]he called himself the little blue hermit, scuttling across the sand in search of a new shell, but now he looks at the sky and knows that no shell will ever be big enough, ever.

There were times when the world did not need policemen, because what it really did need was for somebody who knew what they were doing to shut it all down and start it all up again so that this time it could be done properly.

It only takes a tweak to make the whole world new.

Grief dares us to love once more.

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.

Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.

And all your Faithless doubts Will not destroy The rising spring In me.

In the dark of the moon there is growth. Plants do not flourish in the noonday sun, but rather in the privacy of the new moon

Desert strategies are useful: In times of drought, pull your resources inward; when water is scarce, find moisture in seeds; to stay strong and supple, send a taproot down deep; run when required, hide when necessary; when hot go underground; do not fear darkness, it's where one comes alive.

Might we not be on the threshold of an ecological reformation?

Then she walked out of his church, and back into her own world.

I had decided the best way to breach our distance was to forget the past and start new.

Our experiences are different, yet they could have the same ending. Only you are young yet, you still have a choice. Do not hold this bitterness to you. Crush it and let it fly away. Both of you, start anew, leave the bitterness behind." When

Waking up this morning I smile.        Twenty-four brand-new hours are before me.        I vow to live them deeply and learn to look at everything around me with the eyes of compassion.

Happiness is impermanent, like everything else. In order for happiness to be extended and renewed, you have to learn how to feed your happiness. Nothing can survive without food, including happiness; your happiness can die if you don't know how to nourish it. If you cut a flower but you don't put it in some water, the flower will wilt in a few hours. Even if happiness is already manifesting, we have to continue to nourish it.

New cells are born everyday and old cells die, but they have neither funerals nor birthdays.

While they could appreciate the artistry of the dancers and musicians, they were not carried away by the pleasures they offered. They had their own dreams—to find answers concerning the spiritual quest and the renewal of society.

Here comes the sun, and I say It's alright

What makes me think I could start clean slated? The hardest to learn was the least complicated

As though God has decided to drown the world again, she thought, almost wishing He would. Sometimes she thought the world needed drowning.

Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant, The burning lake turns into a forest pool, The fire subsides into rings of water, A sunlit silence.

She knows the speech of light, and makes it plain A lively thing can come to life again.

The grass says what the wind says: Begin with the rock; End with water.