Quotes About Cycles

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Before there was any water there were tides of fire, both our tones flow from the older fountain.

After bracken is picked nine times, it will sprout again. The saying Fall down eight times, stand up nine reminds us of this and symbolizes the wish for the dead to pave the way for future generations

I did, in fact, believe life was fair. Well, not fair exactly, but balanced. Yin and yang. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Bitter and sweet. One did not exist without the other. When life is bad, you know it's going to get better. When life is good, you know it's going to go bad. If that's not fair, I don't know what is.

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.

Nightmares have seasons like hurricanes.

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

Y la esperanza va ensanchando por momentos su ciclo sobre mí, y una imagen, su imagen, pasa vagamente por el éter, como la luna, a veces cegándome de luz ya veces cegándome de sombras.

After seven to ten days, the nit hatches and becomes what is known as a nymph, or a young louse. Cycles are essential to life. Without patterns our bodies would wander off into the middle of a parched field and just stand there staring up at the sky.

Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Our mother had taught us that when the moon was white, reappearing after its absence, it was showing us that what had been hidden could easily become whole again.

The moon is whole all the time, but we can't always see it. What we see is an almost moon or a not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there's only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.

I guess this is because they teach me, and I teach the children and there's no beginning or end to teaching and learning and working—it all runs together.

There's nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know.

No hay nada nuevo bajo el sol, pero hay muchas cosas viejas que nosotros no sabemos.

Every war carries within it the seeds of the next.

Thinking the same thoughts leads us to make the same choices. Making the same choices leads to demonstrating the same behaviors. Demonstrating the same behaviors leads us to create the same experiences. Creating the same experiences leads us to produce the same emotions. And those same emotions then drive the same thoughts.

Any pattern repeated over and over is bound to turn into wallpaper eventually, whether it's flowers or corpses.

Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.

Naturally there is reincarnation ... otherwise life would be pretty dull. All the patterns in this lifetime are results from patterns in other lifetimes.

Life and values do run in cycles.

That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them.

Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.

The history of the world is, sadly, not a pretty poem. It offers little variety, and it is nearly always the unpleasant things that are repeated, over and over again.