Quotes About Renewal

Take rest a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

Un tren que parte es la cosa del mundo más semejante a un libro que se acaba. Cuando los trenes vuelvan, abríos páginas nuevas.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

I want To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

Sometimes it's not a spiritual problem; you just need a nap!

People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.

rousing myself from my memories.

She seemed to him like the first twilight of early spring when the trees were well budded out and the robins sat among the blossoms, singing down the sun.

Most of us fear that in growing old, we'll become a shell of ourselves. But, of course, it's the youthful versions of ourselves that are our shells; we must leave them behind like a snakeskin. We must grow out of ourselves to grow beyond our old limits, or else risk being suffocated by the sediment of our own history.

There's nothing that the God I serve can't fix, even a broken spirit.

Death is the midwife of very great things.... It brings about the birth and rebirth of forms a thousand times improved. This is the highest mystery of God.

Every profession that attracts people for "reasons of the heart" is a profession in which people and the work they do suffer from losing heart. Like teachers, these people are asking, "How can we take heart again so that we can give heart to others?"—which is why they undertook their work in the first place.

In the presence of a newly minted human being, I am reminded of what wholeness looks like. And I am sometimes moved to wonder, "Whatever became of me?

I have been astonished to see how nature uses devastation to stimulate new growth, slowly but persistently healing her own wounds.

When the gift I give to the other is integral to my own nature, when it comes from a place of organic reality within me, it will renew itself-and me-even as I give it away.

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.

The self you leave behind is only a skin you have outgrown. Don't grieve for it. Look to the wet, raw, unfinished self, the one you are becoming. The world, too, sheds its skin: politicians, cataclysms, ordinary days.