#Rebirth

"Old words are reborn with new faces."

"We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments."

"Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace."

"I give you this to take with you:Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you canbegin again, with pure joy in the uprooting."

"The phoenix must burn to emerge."

"Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person."

"Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, yet with hopes that she,Re-born from holy poverty,In lenten lands, hereafter mayResume them on her Easter Day."(Epitaph for Joy Davidman)"

"As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning."

"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."

"She died--this was the way she died;And when her breath was done,Took up her simple wardrobeAnd started for the sun.Her little figure at the gateThe angels must have spied,Since I could never find herUpon the mortal side."

"My sun sets to rise again."

"...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church."

"The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward."

"Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…"

"Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth."

"If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire."

"You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been."

"I am dead because I lack desire,I lack desire because I think I possess.I think I possess because I do not try to give.In trying to give, you see that you have nothing;Seeing that you have nothing, you try to give of yourself;Trying to give of yourself, you see that you are nothing:Seeing that you are nothing, you desire to become;In desiring to become, you begin to live."

"We can live forever even with an impactful shorter-life."

"Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate."