Quotes About Renewal

Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there.

She wanted even more: to be reborn always, to sever everything that she had learned, that she had seen, and inaugurate herself in new terrain where every tiny act had a meaning, where the air was breathed as if for the first time.

Ah, meu amor, não tenhas medo da carência: ela é o nosso destino maior. O amor é tão mais fatal do que eu havia pensado, o amor é tão inerente quanto a própria carência, e nós somos garantidos por uma necessidade que se renovará continuamente. O amor já está, está sempre. Falta apenas o golpe da graça - que se chama paixão.

Because there are times when a person needs a little bitty death and doesn't even know it.

Inside her it was as if death didn't exist, as if love could weld her, as if eternity were renewal.

Es la amante que no teme pues sabe que lo tendrá todo nuevamente

from any struggle or rest I will rise up as strong and beautiful as a young horse.

Tengo que pagar el precio. El precio de quien tiene un pasado que sólo se renueva con pasión en el extraño presente. Cuando pienso en lo que ya he vivido me parece que he ido dejando mis cuerpos por el camino.

Ah, my love, do not be afraid of neediness: it is our greater destiny. Love is so much more fatal than I had thought, love is as inherent as wanting itself, and we are guaranteed by a necessity that shall renew itself continuously. Love already is, it is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce—which is called passion.

Let the author beware of popularity, otherwise he will be defeated by success. There is a time when you must take a picture of yourself. Hunger is always the same as the first hunger. The need renews itself empty and entire.

Houve um momento grande, parado, sem nada dentro. Dilatou os olhos, esperou. Nada veio. Branco. Mas de repente num estremecimento deram corda no dia e tudo recomeçou a funcionar, a máquina trotando, o cigarro do pai fumegando, o silêncio, as folhinhas, os frangos pelados, a claridade, as coisas revivendo cheias de pressa como uma chaleira a ferver.

Mas agora chegou a hora de parar a pintura para me refazer, refaço-me nestas linhas. Tenho uma voz. Assim como me lanço no traço de meu desenho, este é um exercício de vida sem planejamento. O mundo não tem ordem visível e eu só tenho a ordem da respiração. Deixo-me acontecer.

Pela primeira vez na vida eu teria o que sempre quisera: ia ser outra que não eu mesma.

He hablado mucho sobre la muerte. Pero voy a hablarte ahora sobre el soplo de vida. Cuando uno ya no respira se le hace la respiración boca a boca; se pega la boca a la boca del otro y se respira. Y el otro empieza a respirar otra vez. Este intercambio de respiración es una de las cosas más bellas que he oído contar de la vida. En realidad la belleza de este boca a boca me está deslumbrando.

Perhaps in arriving at the foundation of his grief and loneliness, immediate death or immediate life were the only choices within reach. He chose to live. From his rock bottom loneliness emerged a new life and a real self was restored.

He changed sunset into sunrise.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

All I know is that now my little bird has nothing, except what appears to be a comfortable spot to begin his inevitable return to unconstrained atoms, some of which may float to the sky, or in my window.

As long as you have not set fire to everything you call yours, you are not alive. You are not here! Your happiness is not real.

Inhale autumn, long for spring

and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!

elle ne pouvait pas comprendre que l'humeur sensuelle d'un homme est une saison brève, dont le retour incertain n'est jamais un recommencement.

Le monde m'est nouveau à mon réveil, chaque matin.

Our mission is in the context of the kingdom of God, inaugurated by Jesus Christ yet still only here in part. Our missiological task is to be agents of God's kingdom rule—transforming not just individuals but society and also seeking the renewal and healing of creation, praying and working for God's kingdom on earth as in heaven.