Michael Sims Quotes

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

The sun is new each day.

We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.

I am happy to start from zero, to create, to restart.

The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.

Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings

Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.

Fire is a symbol for so much. It's a symbol for change. It's a symbol for destruction. Out of the ashes of that comes an opportunity to start over. It's one of the greatest metaphors in nature that you can possibly lean on, especially as a songwriter. You're trying to describe either something coming to a complete and utter end or something that is in flux, or something that's on the verge of becoming something else.

Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.

In every end, there is also a beginning.

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

Every generation needs regeneration

Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge Homeric or Shakespearean Indiaman that lies upon the reef, but build a bark out of that wreck and others that are buried in the sands of this desolate island, and such new timber as may be required, in which to sail away to whole new worlds of light and life, where our friends are.

The truth, from my perspective, is that the world, indeed, is ending - and is also being reborn. It's been doing that all day, every day, forever.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

My dream had been shattered, but then re-created, fashioned into something with more meaning and becoming more precious.

So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then.

Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels.

To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.