Quotes About Renewal

Life is like that. Destruction precedes emergence of something better. Destruction is not bad. It only feels that way.

The funerary banquet celebrates a life, often well lived, and the victory is in overcoming and accepting the change that death brings; honoring a loved one at death becomes victorious because it renews the living.

She wanted her 4:00 A.M. brain to experience the house, the time when thinking goes spiral and catastrophic before morning light restores reason.

It's because it's the beginning, and also the end. That was what she loved about the place where the water met the land. A promise of something fresh, a suggestion that even if what is happening now is to be suffered, there is an end and a beginning.

I think of it..." Jeremiah said slowly. "Like weather or something. You got your rain, your snow, your sunshine. Always changing but still constant, you know?"... "So it's not always raining, is it? But when it's not raining, we know the rain isn't gone forever.

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

aujourd'hui est le premier jour du reste de ma vie

Your body is on loan from the planet. All the countless numbers of people who have lived on this planet before you and me have all become topsoil, and so will you. This planet will collect back atom by atom what it has loaned to you.

How can you become old in spirit? Only by carrying the past, isn't it? If you carry sixty years of burden with you, you're sixty years old. If you don't carry anything, you're like a newborn. The physical body may develop limitations, but the way you are has no limitations. It simply has no limitations. You are this many years old or that many years old simply because you carry that many years of garbage with you.

Si te sacas los ojos y los lavas en el agua purísima del llanto, ¿por qué no el corazón ponerlo al aire, al sol, un rato?

Contempla la bellezza nelle cose semplici: il sole che sorge da quell'immensa, scintillante distesa d'acqua che è il mare; sorge ogni giorno in modo nuovo, come fosse la prima volta. <> dice nel suo cuore, perchè sente la fresca brezza sulla nuca. Ma più volte sente l'inutilità di tutto ciò, perchè davanti a lui si stende un silenzio spaventoso, una vastità, dalla lunghezza e larghezza e profondità incommensurabili. Il nulla

The flesh of my flesh. And the bone of my bone. Must return to mother earth to replenish the soil of the ground. As manure is to the plants."

Through preparation. We salvage what we have. Through preparation. We can start a new. A commitment to time.

In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again.

Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today.

The birds are molting. If only man could molt also — his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.

Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.

once in a meeting about our written reports. "When you guys finish your shows, take that file and throw it out. Do not keep one piece of paper, because next year when we have to come back and do this again, it will force you to rethink everything you did, not just pick up from where you left off and implement the same procedures and production elements that you did last year.

It was Heraclitus, of course, who came up with the formulation that we are never able to step into the same river twice. ... The obverse of Heraclitus's maxim may be that one is never able to step out of the river the same, twice. A neuron in the brain is altered with every experience. The self, if it exists, must be a constantly evolving thing. Those coming to the banks of the Ganges or Jordan to immerse themselves do not expect to leave the same as they arrive.

Ma se è una tela sporcata, tagliata e rotta, bisogna prima ricostituirla. Questo ricostituire, questo lavorare per ricostituire, che sarebbe persino un perdere tempo, questo è la croce.

And the air is new. And everything, instant by instant, is as it is, preparing to appear. [...] This is the only way I can live now. To be reborn moment by moment. [...] I die at every instant, and I am reborn, new and without memories: live and whole, no longer inside myself, but in every thing outside.

Wildflowers after rain the heart breaks open and little bright seeds fall out.

Our power comes from the earth