Walter Gropius Quotes

So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge.

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

In a sense, 'Out of Oz' is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

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.

You go through pain. You feel uncomfortable, uncomfortable, uncomfortable until you change. I acquired a different outlook.

You can be shattered, and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong - but you are now a different shape, a different size.

Because you think an explosion has taken place and you're looking at the shards and you say, 'Well, can we put this back together?' And by God, maybe you can put it back together. And maybe it won't be the same, but maybe it will be different, and maybe it can even be better in a different way.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

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

I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

There is energy and power in a crisis.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

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

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.