Rigoberta Menchu Quotes

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

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

My sun sets to rise again.

My sun sets to rise again.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

'There's nothing new under the sun': that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

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.

My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.

Who ever said that one was born just once?

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

The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.

The sun is new each day.

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother Nature.

The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.

Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.

One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.