Quotes About Spiral

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction." —Martin Luther King, Jr., "Strength to Love," 1963

Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.

At first I thought that my life was going around in circles. Then I got to looking closer, and it's actually a downward spiral.

Ku tej idei - ?e taniec stwarza muzyk? - par?a ludzko?? wszystkimi drogami swoimi, ona sta?a si? natchnieniem i met? mojego czasu, ku niej i ja d??y?em po spirali, coraz cia?niejsze zataczaj?c kr?gi. Ale w tej?e chwili zosta?em unicestwiony. Gdy? zda?em sobie spraw?, ?e my?l t? my?l? jedynie dla jej patosu!

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

helixes of his ears

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

Our galaxy's mass and size is fine-tuned for life. A smaller galaxy will have its spiral structure more seriously disrupted by encounters with other galaxies. A larger galaxy will possess a much larger supermassive black hole in its nucleus.

corkscrew staircase squeezed

A clockwise spiral draws in desirable energy, filling in boundary holes and attracting life-enhancing support.

A clockwise spiral draws in desirable energy, filling in boundary holes and attracting life-enhancing support. Use intention to bring healing and higher-order energy spiraling into your physical energy field, visualizing them coming straight into your field and then into your hip area.

A counterclockwise spiral carries others' energy out of you, thus clearing both your field and your body. Imagine any negative energy spiraling out of your hips, through your field, and then to the higher heavens.

Time itself is cyclic, and by the spiral of its returning seasons we review the progress and growth of our own understanding.

from: Age Sixty-nine) There is this circle I walk that I have learned to love. I hope one day to be a spiral but to the birds I'm a circle.

My grandsire,' Jamie observed evenly, 'has by all reports got a character that would enable him to hide conveniently behind a spiral staircase.

Quite without warning, I began to cry. No sobbing, no throat-gripping spasms. Water simply welled in my eyes and flowed down my cheeks, slow as cold honey. A quiet acknowledgment of despair as things spiraled slowly out of control.

has by all reports got a character that would enable him to hide conveniently behind a spiral staircase.

And in this self-expression I put all the thoughts I had about her, I released the anger she made me feel, my amorous way of thinking about her, my determination to exist for her, the desire for me to be me, and for her to be her, and the love for myself that I put in my love for her--all the things that could be said only in that conch shell wound into a spiral.

Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative.

Even time breaks down within this calculus of interbeing. We stand in a spiral—rather than a strictly linear—continuity with our ancestors and the ancient cosmos. We still see the light of the stars that died long ago and that now form our living bodies; so, too, do our actions reach into the future of all life and death. It matters what we bring forth with the matter of our bodies. We create, as cosmos-formed creatures, within creation.

Sin has a horrible appetite. It calls for more and more sin to be set in motion.