Paul Wellstone Quotes

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

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

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

Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.

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.

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

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

The sun is new each day.

I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light.

We have it within our power to begin the world over again.

Every new time will give its law.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

We are out to rebuild the world.

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

There's always going to be a moment where it's out with the old, and in with the new. That's probably going to happen to me one day.

A new era doesn't come from nothing. New thoughts, values and methods will be established after overcoming various hurdles on the way.

Just because you started off one way don't mean the ending of the book has to be the way you started.

I am born every day and make my debut every day. Others pile on the years.

A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representative or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.

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.

Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves in a new way -- in the newness of each moment where all is possible and nothing is limited to the old.