Quotes About Renewal

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

The Roman Church has grown and grown, fueled by immigration but also renewed by two pontiffs who have seemed to understand what Tocqueville knew: People want guidance for their souls once they are convinced they have them.

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

Finally, God's "wonderful plan" for our lives does not exclude the possibility of shame over past sins. Renewed

Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.

Inde fernut, titidem qui vivere debeat annos, corpre de patrio parvum phenica renasci' It's from Ovid. It means, 'A little phoenix is born anew from the father's body, fated to live the same number of years.

Time was, time will be again.

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

Words have to die if humans are to live.

La felicidad de los superficiales: cuando un hombre que ha perdido su asno lo encuentra otra vez.

La vela quemó a la polilla: Pero pronto desaparecerá en su propia grasa.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

Por qué entonces no empezar a partir de cero? Nada está perdido cuando reconocemos que todo está perdido y hay que volver a empezar.

Look at the cherry blossoms! Their color and scent fall with them, Are gone forever, Yet mindless The spring comes again.

I've burnt all the holy pages I used to carry but poems flare in my heart

I was like an old leafless tree until we met green buds burst and blossom now that I have you I'll never forget what I owe you

one of you saved my satori paper I know it piece by piece you pasted it back together now watch me burn it once and for all

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.

The universe likes change. All that appears solid and substantial is built on the shifting sands of ceaseless transformation on the quantum level. Ironically, that's the one steady factor about the universe - it is always changing, which means our efforts to change are supported by the very nature of Life.

No matter how difficult your life has been, you can be certain that your soul is still in perfect condition, waiting for you to set it free.

Drinking the energy of the universe Breathing along with the Cosmos With each breath I am reborn Into a brand new existence.

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

Bring to the world and to the minds of the peoples that which has been broken or that which has never existed before.

To gain, we must first lose.