Quotes About Cycles

Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

It's not dystopia to think history will repeat itself.

Time brings all things to pass.

Everything is made of stories. They've all happened before, in similar circumstances. It's like a circle. It goes round and round and round.

We learn from history that we don't learn from history!

human memory is short, and history always repeats itself.

human memory is short, and history always repeats itself." ? Devdutt Pattanaik, Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata

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As you think a thought, it goes out into the ethers, where it gathers energy and then returns to you. It parallels the weather patterns on Earth, where your negative thoughts go out and gather negative energy, bringing the negativity back to you on its return trip. So

Life is so random and seasonal.

I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.

Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

That ... is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored.

All of our longings are trapped in circles where there is no beginning and no end.

IT'S NO FUN WATCHING PEOPLE WOUND THEMSELVES SO THAT THEY CAN HOLE UP, NURSE THEMSELVES BACK TO HEALTH, AND REPEAT THE CYCLE. THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO.

And then it is another day and another and another but I will not go on about this because no doubt you too have experienced time.

Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all be well.

Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of the blooms was not the same.

Every eight years, the people swallow some politician hook, line, and sinker and make him president. They hold him on the political stomach for about six years. Then they commence to get indigestion because the politicians quit pouring the soda bicarbonate of publicity into their stomachs. At the end of eight years, they vomit him up in order to swallow someone else

A couple's emotional life together and their physical life together each have their ebbs and flows, their ups and downs, but these don't always correspond.