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Only birth can conquer death — the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new. Within the soul, within the body social, there must be — if we are to experience long survival — a continuous "recurrence of birth" (palingenesia) to nullify the unremitting recurrences of death.
- Joseph Campbell
The poet Yeats felt we were living in the last of a great Christian cycle. His poem "The Second Coming" says, "Turning and turning in the widening gyre/The falcon cannot hear the falconer;/Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned.
- Joseph Campbell
So the essence of life is this eating of itself! Life lives on lives
- Joseph Campbell
Goodbye..? Why can't we go back to page one and do it all over again?
- AA Milne
Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each moment of the year has its own beauty
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.
- Wendell Berry
She hated endings. But if things didn't end, where would all the amazing beginnings be?
- Rachel Hauck
Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.
- John Milton
The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
- Herman Melville