Constant Renewal Quotes

Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity.

Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.

It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.

To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.

I've seen how this thing goes, the waves, the ins and outs of the season.

Existence begins in every instant.

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Nothing fails like success. The Swedish [political] model could not survive without the momentum of repeated accomplishment … the promise of the future had to be constantly renewed.

Fashion means never to look too much backwards. It always needs to go forwards.

NO MATTER WHAT YOU ACHIEVE, EVERY SEASON IS A NEW SEASON. WHAT YOU ACHIEVED THE SEASON BEFORE IS NO LONGER RELEVANT.

But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this!

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life!

People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.

This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning — to be a Beginner!

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.