Quotes About Cycles

our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.

They cut them down. They will always cut them down. They come and go like seasons, the winter that gives no thought to the spring

These wheels within wheels These leaves folded in leaves These wheeling winds and winding leaves Those sprockets from those seeds This spiral shooting from that rainfall- What does a turning earth say to its axis? How should a melon say thanks Or a squash utter blessings?

Nature is like a careless child playing with our lives. When it tires of its broken toys, it abandons them and replaces them with others, Kolvenik said. It's our responsibility to pick up the pieces and rebuild them.

The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time.

I've just seen it all - I've seen the bird flu, I've seen the Asian economic meltdown, SARS, 9/11, economic cycles.

When heavy metal was really big in the '80s, it was huge, and then it kind of waned down and kind of came back.

Miami has always been a city of booms and busts.

Los riachuelos que nos refrescan, ¿no son producidos por las tormentas?

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

THE WORLD IS made of patterns. The rings of a tree. The raindrops on the dusty ground. The path the sun follows from morning to dusk.

For trees, stories never end, they simply fold one into another. Where one begins to close, another begins to open, so that none are ever finished, not really.

The same wind that crept around the massive feet of the dinosaurs now swirls around the toes of baby koalas.

Trees are the arbiters of time, gathering up the hours and days and years, keeping them in their circular rings. They know that forgetting is not so easy. The blackjacks, the water oaks, the sumacs, they all had time to spare, and more.

I don't know what despair is, if it's something or nothing, a kind of filling up or an emptying out. I don't know what sorrow does to the world, what it adds or takes away. What I think I do know now is that sorrow is part of the Earth's great cycles, flowing into the night like cool air sinking down a river course. To feel sorrow is to float on the pulse of the Earth, the surge from living to dying, from coming into being to ceasing to exist.

It's (news) like balls in a Bingo hopper. The same events keep coming up over and over. Earthquake. Coup d'etat. Trade war. Hostage taking. My compulsion is to know whick balls are up on any given day.

History doesn't repeat itself, but human nature remains the same.

You and I...have lived many lives.

The stock market is almost magical because it always leads the economy. It goes down long before the economy drops and then heads higher long before the economy rebounds. It always has.

There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death.

If you have a month to plan a project in detail, spend it on four one-week iterations developing while you improve your estimates. If you have a week to plan a project, hold five one-day iterations. Feedback cycles give you information and the experience to make accurate estimates.

the menstrual cycle may actually be the major part of initiation from a woman's point of view, since it has the power to awaken the deepest sense of obedience to life's creative power over her. Thus she willingly gives herself to her womanly function, much as a man gives himself to his assigned role in the community life of his group.

Tudo volta. E voltam mais bonitas, mais maduras, voltam quando tem de voltar, voltam quando é pra ser.

Don't worry, it doesn't rain every day. Just every other day.