Quotes About Cycle

The sun is back at its original o'clock.

Anger is a boomerang.

In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.

As long as adults make mistakes and as long as parents abuse, they will create new abusers.

All great historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice the fist time as tragedy, the second time as farce

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

They want this resource for themselves. They're blaming us for the low salmon runs. But we're not the ones overfishing. We've always caught what we needed. Some years are better than others, but we respect the cycle. We did not create this mess. You see over there? They are allowed to catch more than us because the government said they could. And further out, in the ocean, they can catch even more.

It crumbled apart into ash, going from form to formlessness. To everything, it's season. The pine cone grew into being, burned bright, and now it had disappeared. That was natural.

The Chinese believe that whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.

Mother is the sacred teacher of this cycle. She passes on her lessons through her body by example, guidance, attitude, energy, vibration.

It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption.

And then, because the world is relentless this way, it was spring.

Its an onion tree. Every time Sam takes off an onion, two more will grow in its place.

I come out of the home for the aged, get on my bicycle, and think to myself that even if there is a communal grave it will in future not be of archaeological significance. Nevertheless, I have finally visited my deceased maternal grandmother who once bought me a spinning top.

Time and death sleep side by side.

when a dog is finished living his lifetimes as a dog, his next incarnation will be as a man.

A friend in southern Utah has for years managed great comfort from the thought that on his own death and cremation, the molecules of his body will be released, taken up by hundreds of other life forms. "That's immortality, brother!

This is the story line for extraordinary success stories. Passion for something leads to disproportionate time practicing or working at it. That time spent eventually translates to skill, and when skill improves, results improve. Better results generally lead to more enjoyment, and more passion and more time is invested. It can be a virtuous cycle all the way to extraordinary results.

All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down from the dark bottom turn it inside out let it spread through Sift down even. Watch it sprout. A mind like compost.

going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere

Think of a Mexican wave travelling around a stadium (a Mexican wave is a transverse wave as the cycle of the motion is up and down, while the wave travels at right angles to that direction, round the stadium). The medium here is the mass of spectators who bob up and down. But they stay in their seat positions