Quotes About Cycles

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

He also embraced a cyclical theory of history. History, he believed, flowed in cycles. Infant nations were virtuous and uncorrupted, but with age they grew tainted, eventually falling into decline and succumbing to their encumbering maladies and vices.

Sunshine and warm water seem to me to have full meaning only when they come after winter's bite; green is not so green if it doesn't follow the months of brown and gray. And the scheduled inevitable death of green carries its own exhilaration; in that change is the promise of all the rebirths to come, and the deaths, too. ... Without the year's changes, for me, there is little morality.

Every unhappy family is periodically ransacked by joy.

As a kid you run around so fast, the world around you seems to stand still. A summer vacation can stretch on for an eternity. With each birthday we circle back and cross the same point around the sun. We wish each other 'many happy returns.' But soon you feel the circle begin to tighten, and you realize it's a spiral, and you're already halfway through...

Eddies of Magi collected in the corners, rejoined the spiral when there was a gap.

The pirates could probably follow or at least locate us even while we were in white space, which nobody else could manage. So they had better ways to track us than by tryingto hack the interstellar mail tracelessly (that last word is key)-which even Singer wasn't sure he could manage, as the minds that ran it were big and old and wise in the ways of logistics and treachery, as well as having abundant cycles to play with.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself—in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience

When all of these were considered together, a pattern emerged: mass extinctions seemed to take place at regular intervals of roughly twenty-six million years.

LIKE the Jews, the corals of the Great Barrier Reef observe a lunar calendar.

The sadness that rose and fell in me was like the tides.

Nas?l bittiyse bundan öncekiler, bu da biter. Bite bite sonunda ben de biterim, olur biter.

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

I've become more comfortable as time has gone on with saying goodbye because... I've been having so many conversations about the cyclical nature of life. It just keeps going.

The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

History, we know, is apt to repeat herself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.

History repeats itself.

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

The surya namaskar is essentially about building a dimension within you where your physical bodily cycles are in sync with the sun's cycles, which run about twelve and a quarter years. It is not by accident but by intent that it has been structured with twelve postures. If your system is in a certain level of vibrancy and readiness, and in a high state of receptivity, then naturally your cycle will be in sync with the solar cycle. Young

Can you then respond to the moon? You can. Your body and life energies certainly do. When entire oceans rise in response to the cycles of the moon, do you think the water content in your own system doesn't rise as well? Maybe you aren't an astronaut; maybe you can never walk on the moon. But you can respond to the moon. In fact, you already do. You can just choose to do it—willingly, consciously.

Thus spring begins: old stupidities repeated, new errs invented