#renewal

If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. If you want to be reborn, let yourself die.

You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Let your spirit and your virtue serve the sense of the earth, my brethren: and the value of all things shall be established by you anew!

Nothing is more creative than death, since it is the secret of life: it means that the past must always make way for the future.

To give birth to the ancient in a new time is creation.

Change in all things is sweet, for our nature is not simple, but compound.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Every sunset carries the promise of a glorious tomorrow.

The art of living is dying to the past every day.

Every dawn is an opportunity to practice goodness.

Every day is a fresh canvas for your soul's artistry.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

When the tree falls in the deep forest, it returns to the earth to feed new blossoms. In the Dao, nothing is ever wasted.

Release your grip on past regrets; water that has flowed past the mill cannot turn the wheel again.

For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Do not let the dust of sorrow settle on the mirror of your mind; rinse it clean with the water of laughter.

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

We must indulge the mind and from time to time allow it the leisure which is its food and strength.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.