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Quotes About Cycles

Media cycles end, but the Internet never forgets. This is a valuable lesson, especially for college students.
~ Milo Yiannopoulos
Troll Wars were like Batman movies: both were repeated at regular intervals, featured expensive hardware, and were broadly predictable.
~ Jasper Fforde
It probably wouldn't last. It never does. But it would come back around again. That's how life works. And that's why it's important to treasure the peaceful times-so you can persevere through the other kind.
~ Jean Ferris
Round and round he walked, and so learned a very valuable thing: that no emotion is the final one.
~ Jeanette Winterson
There are thirteen moons every calendar year. They measure time differently on the moon. The moon orbits the earth once every 28 days As though she's looking for something she lost. A long time ago.
~ Jeanette Winterson
All seasons have something to offer
~ Jeannette Walls
A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.
~ Cesare Pavese
I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse. So I wanted to write a record about that instead of another song about broken hearts and drinking.
~ Sturgill Simpson
it's funny how life seems only to be able to give and take, instead of just give!
~ Unknown
You know what I hate?' she said. 'When people say that history repeats itself. That's the scariest thing I can think of.
~ Tony Horwitz
If they keep crashing stuff into the moon, the moon's gonna get pissed off, and the tides'll change, and all the women'll start PMS-ing together. Then you guys are going to fucking regret it.
~ Tori Amos
It is autumn in Moomin Valley, for how else can spring come back again?
~ Tove Jansson
There are many stories," Unlikely Worlds said, "but most follow similar patterns.
~ Unknown
Flowers teach us that nothing is permanent: not their beauty, not even the fact that they will inevitably wilt, because they will still give new seeds. Remember this when you feel joy, pain, or sadness. Everything passes, grows old, dies, and is reborn.
~ Paulo Coelho
The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again.
~ Pema Chodron
We also change like the weather. We ebb and flow like the tides, we wax and wane like the moon. We fail to see that like the weather, we are fluid, not solid. And so we suffer.
~ Pema Chodron
Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.
~ Julien Benda
Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.
~ Unknown
Las coyunturas críticas en sí son puntos de inflexión históricos. Y los círculos viciosos y virtuosos implican que tenemos que estudiar la historia
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
A man must be prepared to give 100 percent to his purpose, fulfill his karma or dissolve it, and then let go of that specific form of living. He must be capable of not knowing what to do with his life, entering a period of unknowingness and waiting for a vision or a new purpose to emerge. These cycles of strong specific action followed by periods of not knowing what the heel is going on are natural for a man who is shedding layers of karma in his relaxation into truth.
~ David Deida
But Tom, said the moon, the swinging of your pendulums! Everyone's a pendulum swinging, to and fro, and always you're getting hit by someone else's swinging pendulum. You're minding your own business, but someone else'e pendulum is swinging around, and pow! you get it in the head.
~ Unknown
Life is like--like one of those hobby-horses you ride at a fair--round and round you go enjoying every moment and then the--then the music stops...
~ Winston Graham
My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.
~ Christopher Hitchens