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Quotes About Cycles

The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon is strong, the blood that moves strong in the same way. And it to be at the full, it drags the wits along with it, the same as it drags the tide.
~ Lady Gregory
If you want your hair to be thicker, cut it when the moon is about to be full - a heavy, full, waxing moon. Do not cut it when the moon's waning.
~ Matthew McConaughey
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
~ Gertrude Stein
Karma is like old software that you have written for yourself, unconsciously. Depending on the type of actions that you perform, you write your software. Once you write a certain type of software, your whole system functions accordingly. Based on the information from the past, certain memory patterns are formed and keep recurring. Now, life is just cyclical.
~ Sadhguru
Must be remembered that the repetitive nature of cyclical movements or systems, which we traditionally refer to as samsara, offers the necessary stability for the making of life. If everything was random, it would not be possible to house a steady life-making machine. For the solar system and for the individual, being rooted in cyclical nature gives a certain firmness and steadiness to life. The very nature of the physical world is cyclical.
~ Sadhguru
If you are compulsive, you will see that situations, experiences, thoughts, and emotions in your life will be in cycles. They keep coming back to you once every six or eighteen months, three years, or six years, depending on your degree of compulsiveness. If you just look back on your life, you will notice this. If they come once every twelve years, that means your system is in a high state of receptivity and balance.
~ Sadhguru
Look at the past—empire succeeding empire—and from that, extrapolate the future: the same thing. No escape from the rhythm of events. Which is why observing life for forty years is as good as a thousand. Would you really see anything new?
~ Marcus Aurelius
There is nothing new: all things are both familiar and short-lived.
~ Marcus Aurelius
49. Look at the past—empire succeeding empire—and from that, extrapolate the future: the same thing. No escape from the rhythm of events. Which is why observing life for forty years is as good as a thousand. Would you really see anything new?
~ Marcus Aurelius
Look at the past with its endless succession of empires, and you see the future.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Look at the past—empire succeeding empire—and from that, extrapolate the future: the same thing. No escape from the rhythm of events.
~ Marcus Aurelius
As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
~ Margaret Atwood
If the stock market exists, so must previous lives.
~ Margaret Atwood
There is a time to live, a time to die, a time to laugh, and at no time are the three of them very far apart.
~ Spike Milligan
A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
~ Stanislav Grof
History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
~ Will Durant
As any gardener will tell you, the cycles of nature require patience...Even a fast-growing vegetable like a radish requires time.
~ M. J. Ryan
Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
~ T. S. Eliot
Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
marriages have stages. They have incarnations, almost. You can be in a good marriage and you can be in a bad marriage, and they can both be the same one but just at different times.
~ Anne Tyler
Sometimes, she said, it seems to me there's just these certain types of people that come around and around in our lives, know what I mean? Easy types and hard types; we run into them over and over.
~ Anne Tyler
He also knows that certain moments repeat themselves.
~ Paulo Coelho
Once in a life time deals come around about every three weeks or so.
~ Robert G. Allen
Our goal is not to get out of the world or to get out of life, but to integrate it, to celebrate it, to embrace it fully, and to embrace all the different cycles within it.
~ Starhawk