Laurel Clark Quotes

Surviving means being born over and over.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.

Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.

I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world. You know, the whole thing as well as the part I'm not happy with, the sad part.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

I just understand that life is a constant change and a constant evolution.

I got this second chance at life, and I live it.

This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision

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

To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

Journey into the beautiful dream that is life...the end is only the beginning.

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.