Easter Quotes: Thoughts To Inspire Your Inner Growth This Season

German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, "We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.”

Spring is the right time for renewal and rejuvenation: an opportunity to soften. The season lends us moments to shed our skin and blossom. We are reignited with an energy that sat still within our sleepy souls during the wintertime.

Today, whether you are inspired by the sentiments of Easter and Passover or simply by the light-hearted song of a bird, do take a moment to meditate on the processes by which you will renew. Let us know -- what inspires you to renew this spring?

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Comments

[Mrs Robinsons]

03:55 PM on 04/08/2012

"Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems"
is the one I like, also.

[sixties chick]

02:13 PM on 04/08/2012

I liked slide #4, "Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems." In the sermon today, the minister told of a young Robert Lewis Stevenson who as a child was sickly. He was looking out the window on a cold, dark night and watching the lamplighter light the gas street lights. His caretaker told to get away from the window "or else he would catch his death", but little Robert said he was watching the man poke holes in the darkness. To a child, the world is a magical place and Springtime is the most magical time.

[shoogie]

10:45 AM on 04/08/2012

I really like slide #3. I"ve always admired the tenacity and promise of the simple dandelion. It reminds me of Betty Smith's classic novel, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." What a lovely reminder.

Happy Easter!