Thomas A. Edison Quotes

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm. But the destruction in dark energy is also a subtle aspect of construction, like how even forest fires have their benefits. Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.

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

I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.

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

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

It's time to start all over/make a new beginning.

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

I can feel it... the chance to start over, to live right, to love right, to burn up in a fiery cloud and never again be buried in the mud.

We will kill in ourselves a world in order to build another, a higher one reaching to the heavens.

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

Each book starts from ashes.

And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.

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

Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes Are initial drafts And not the final version.

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

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.

There can always be new beginnings... even for people like us.

A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better and wiser.

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.

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.

The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. . . It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.