Newness Quotes
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“I might call forth a river of expressed silence, or pile up a mountain of visible dreams. Whatever exists is already there; let’s create something beyond it.”
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“Life is a concept, like the “universe", that expands as soon as we reach what we think is its edge.”
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“Nature is not about preserving old things, but about creating new ones. New life. New ideas.”
― The Declaration
― The Declaration
“When we entered a classroom we always tossed our caps on the floor, to free our hands; as soon as we crossed the threshold we would throw them under the bench so hard that they struck the wall and raised a cloud of dust; this was "the way it should be done."
But the new boy either failed to notice this maneuver or was too shy to perform it himself, for he was still holding his cap on his lap at the end of the prayer. It was a head-gear of composite nature, combining elements of the busby, the lancer cap, the round hat, the otter-skin cap and the cotton nightcap--one of those wretched things whose mute ugliness has great depths of expression, like an idiot's face. Egg-shaped and stiffened by whalebone, it began with three rounded bands, followed by alternating diamond-shaped patches of velvet and rabbit fur separated by a red stripe, and finally there was a kind of bag terminating in a cardboard-lined polygon covered with complicated braid. A network of gold wire was attached to the top of this polygon by a long, extremely thin cord, forming a kind of tassel. The cap was new; its visor was shiny.
"Stand up," said the teacher.
He stood up; his cap fell. The whole class began to laugh.
He bent down and picked it up. A boy beside him knocked it down again with his elbow; he picked it up once again.
"Will you please put your helmet away?" said the teacher, a witty man.”
― Madame Bovary
But the new boy either failed to notice this maneuver or was too shy to perform it himself, for he was still holding his cap on his lap at the end of the prayer. It was a head-gear of composite nature, combining elements of the busby, the lancer cap, the round hat, the otter-skin cap and the cotton nightcap--one of those wretched things whose mute ugliness has great depths of expression, like an idiot's face. Egg-shaped and stiffened by whalebone, it began with three rounded bands, followed by alternating diamond-shaped patches of velvet and rabbit fur separated by a red stripe, and finally there was a kind of bag terminating in a cardboard-lined polygon covered with complicated braid. A network of gold wire was attached to the top of this polygon by a long, extremely thin cord, forming a kind of tassel. The cap was new; its visor was shiny.
"Stand up," said the teacher.
He stood up; his cap fell. The whole class began to laugh.
He bent down and picked it up. A boy beside him knocked it down again with his elbow; he picked it up once again.
"Will you please put your helmet away?" said the teacher, a witty man.”
― Madame Bovary
“Accept that you are not finished, and a new and better life is just beginning.”
― Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
― Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Revolution is simple. It's like a breath; out with the old, and in with the new.”
― Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
― Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Being undone, we discover we’ve been fooled by wishing wells and have mistaken the fire of desire for radiance.”
― The Deepest Peace: Contemplations from a Season of Stillness
― The Deepest Peace: Contemplations from a Season of Stillness
“...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed.”
― There There
― There There
“Find a new and better leader within yourself, for yourself.”
― Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
― Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“I felt that first awareness that there’s a whole set of species whose sounds and calls you’ve never heard—the wonder of realizing that people are growing up with an entirely different sensory experience from yours. This whole country seemed so shiny to me.”
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
“If I love order, it's not the mark of a character subjected to an inner discipline, a repression of the instincts. In me the idea of an absolutely regular world, symmetrical and methodical, is associated with that first impulse and burgeoning of nature.
The rest of your images that associate passion with disorder, love with intemperate overflow - river fire whirlpool volcano - are for me memories of nothingness and listlessness and boredom.”
― The Complete Cosmicomics
The rest of your images that associate passion with disorder, love with intemperate overflow - river fire whirlpool volcano - are for me memories of nothingness and listlessness and boredom.”
― The Complete Cosmicomics
“People are always changing themselves and their world, dear. Very few of the changes are new. We rather confuse change and newness, I think. What is truly new never changes."
"You speak in riddles, aged progenitor."
"The world worships a certain kind of newness. People are always talking about a new car, or a new drink or p-p-play or house, but these things are not truly new, are they? They begin to get old the minute you acquire them. New is not in things. New is within us. The truly new is something that is new forever: you. Every morning of your life and every evening, every moment is new. You have never lived this moment before and you never will again. In this sense the new is also the eternal.”
― Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
"You speak in riddles, aged progenitor."
"The world worships a certain kind of newness. People are always talking about a new car, or a new drink or p-p-play or house, but these things are not truly new, are they? They begin to get old the minute you acquire them. New is not in things. New is within us. The truly new is something that is new forever: you. Every morning of your life and every evening, every moment is new. You have never lived this moment before and you never will again. In this sense the new is also the eternal.”
― Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
“Why do we romanticize the virgin spaces? Land where no one’s walked or built or puked or fought over its uses? Land never once in its existence beholden to anyone or anything, forming timelessly, inured of us. We want it to seduce the cluttered world of today out from under us.”
― The Power of Amie Martine
― The Power of Amie Martine
“And what I learned is this: there are places in the world war one feels new, young, and alive again.”
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“My endeavour is to make everyone think creatively and logically!
My endeavour is to let newness enter the world!”
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My endeavour is to let newness enter the world!”
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“To create the new we must first de-create the old; and the reality of decreation (as Stevens called it, borrowing the word from Simone Weil) is as strong as the reality of creation.”
― Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire
― Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire
“When you arise in the morning, do you throw open the window and look out at the world? Do you observe the same old things, or do you notice subtle changes, like buds opening on flowers, the scent of lilacs on the breeze, or the new song of a distant bird? This is the day the Lord has made! Rejoice in His bountiful, beautiful gift.
That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is none besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other.
~Isaiah 45:6”
― A Charles Dickens Devotional
That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is none besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other.
~Isaiah 45:6”
― A Charles Dickens Devotional
“The new is maybe going to be uncomfortable but there is a possibility - it may bring bliss to you. So you cannot reject it and you cannot accept it either; hence you waver, you tremble, great augnish arises in your being. It is natural, nothing has gone wrong. This is how it has always been, this is how it will always be.”
― Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
― Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
“The sun still shines on Summer's leaves as Spring's leaves grow old, and Fall's weather grows cold. Fall seasons sweep them up and them out, while Winter communicates with cool winds. Snowflakes break their news release to the Earth, announcing its time to trend the season's way in; while 'mediarologists' report the fact updates & histories about weather's who, what why, how and when.”
― Out With The Old TREND INTO YOUR NEW
― Out With The Old TREND INTO YOUR NEW
“That's what only words can do--
Prod us toward something new
& in doing so, move us closer -> together.”
― Call Us What We Carry
Prod us toward something new
& in doing so, move us closer -> together.”
― Call Us What We Carry
“Let God define what newness is for you. For if you attempt to define it, you will stoop to sleepy revisions and superficial adjustments that will be no more ‘new’ than the ‘old’ that you thought you revised.”
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“But--pardon me if I seem inquisitive--are you not all rather--ahem!--rather unusual?' asked the Woggle-Bug, looking from one to another with unconcealed interest.
'Not more so than yourself,' answered the Scarecrow. 'Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it.”
― The Marvellous Land of Oz
'Not more so than yourself,' answered the Scarecrow. 'Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it.”
― The Marvellous Land of Oz
“When you're restless, you're alive and awake, not sleepwalking in your life or in your creative practice. You value independent thinking of compliance, experimentation, and risk over the sure thing. Restless riders are flexible and nimble; they resist doing the same thing again, and again, even if that thing was successful and well received. They refused to rest on their laurels.”
― Dear Writer: Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life
― Dear Writer: Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life
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