Quotes About Cycles

We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.

Nature is the best Time-keeper.

It is a scholar's task to find patterns in nature or cycles in history. Initially, it's no different from finding portraits of animals and heroes in the stars. The question is, Have you discovered a preexisting truth? Or have you imposed an arbitrary meaning on whatever it is you're considering?

Their ordinariness makes the world go round.

Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day.

Life in the Islamic Republic was as capricious as the month of April, when short periods of sunshine would suddenly give way to showers and storms. It was unpredictable: the regime would go through cycles of some tolerance, followed by a crackdown. Now, after a period of relative calm and so-called liberalization, we had again entered a time of hardships.

I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.

One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires.

How we make large circles in earth for ourselves… Around we go, back to the start and the start is there again: resumption, which was ever the curse of daylight. How long before we see daylight again?

When … days lengthen, spring flowers bloom. … Spring flowers are inseparable from lengthening days; … Indeed, spring flowers are the longer days. … [A]ll phenomena work together as a seamless whole.

A man lives so many different lengths of time. And each one has its own end.

Plagues and political unrest have a long history of following the same cycles.)

OCEAN TIDES (1632)

Finally, an intensifying application of knowledge and rationality to human affairs - the escalator of reason - can force people to recognize the futility of cycles of violence, to ramp down the privileging of their own interests over others', and to re-frame violence as a problem to be solved rather than a contest to be won.

changes that take place on the time scale of journalism will always show ups and downs.

Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.

The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

Death is not a disaster. Too many births - that is the real disaster.

There is nothing so certain that it cannot vary. Even the sun itself has its cycles of instability. Likewise, there is nothing so mutable that it cannot be fixed. Every revolution produces a new order. Every death is, simultaneously, a metamorphosis.

Hubo un pasado en el que cada generación exprimió la Tierra y pensó que la siguiente solucionaría todos los problemas, la escasez, el hambre y la guerra. Y aquella fue una etapa maldita.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. —EDMUND BURKE

El pajarito fue hecho por Dios para ayudar a las criaturas a descubrir las cosas. Después, cuando el niño ya no lo necesita más, devuelve el pajarito a Dios. Y Dios lo coloca en otro niño inteligente como tú. ¿No es lindo eso?

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Aspirations inspire us, while expectations simply lead us into cycles of hope and fear: hope that what we want will happen; fear that it won't.