Quotes About Cycle

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain, And perish in our own.

As far as the Moon is concerned, he is always full.

In reality, plants are farming humans — giving us oxygen until we eventually decompose so they can consume us.

At high tide the fish eat ants; at low tide the ants eat fish.

You can shout it to every star, Bare your soul up to the moon, Cast your problems nightly afar— But they always flood back by noon.

Thirty dayes hath November, April, June, and September, Twenty and eyght hath February alone, And all the rest thirty and one, But in the leape you must add one.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

LIFE" made it possible, "DEATH" made it necessary!

In the midst of life we are in death,'" said Miss Ophelia.

one partner's defense quickly becomes the source of the other partner's wound. Wounds don't cause damage; defenses cause damage. When defensive partners lash out or retreat in an effort to protect themselves from pain or intrusion, they wound the other partner, who responds with a defense, which, in turn, wounds the partner who was defensive in the first place. A cycle of unconscious wounding and defending gets established that is hard to break.

IN the natural world Sacrifice is meaningless, As all things come and go From the One.

Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.

Bamboo blooms rarely, maybe every sixty to one hundred years, but when the parent plant flowers, its offspring—no matter where in the world they are—also bloom.

Life and death go hand in glove.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.

The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.

Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises.

Then as it was, then again it will be. Though the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.

The nature of things dictates that we must leave those dear to us. Everything born contains its own cessation

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

Birthing takes nine months, and dying takes you all the rest of your life.

Sometimes, he thought, a man couldn't do better than to wind up where he started.

The end of THE END is the best place to begin THE END, because if you read THE END from the beginning of the beginning of THE END to the end of the end of THE END, you will arrive at the end.