Renewed Perspective Quotes

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.

You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

I shall not grow conservative with age.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

Change and renewal are themes in life, aren't they? We keep growing throughout life.

Living is a constant source of inspiration.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

I had a similar year back in 1984 when I felt like I couldn't lose.

As I grow older, I have had to discard some ideas and policies because they no longer make sense. This strikes me as entirely healthy. I would invite others to do the same.

I love the forest. It is the place where you hear yourself better.

The Lord has a way of working in our lives, and sometimes he brings us down low to bring new values back to our life.

Every new time will give its law.

To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views, new principles, new tastes, new affections, new likings, new dislikings, new fears, new joys, new sorrows, new love to things once hated, new hatred to things once loved, new thoughts of God, and ourselves, and the world, and the life to come, and salvation.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.

Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasn't going to be all of me.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.