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Quotes About Cycle

The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to no
~ Rudolf Clausius, Abhandlungen
What has life given me? The beginning is fire, the end is a heap of ashes, and between the end and the beginning lies all the pain in the world.
~ Francis Marion Crawford
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
Things go away to return, brightened for the passage
~ A.R. Ammons
Equilibrations If you walk back and forth through a puddle pretty soon you wet the whole driveway but of course dry the puddle up.
~ A.R. Ammons
Bees die with the burnt honey at their mouths, at least.
~ A.R. Ammons
Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.
~ Aeschylus
When she came back inside, she was gripping a yogurt cup someone had thrown near our side strip of garden. "Plastic doesn't cycle." She shrugged off her coat. "Right? We recycle it, but it can't do anything on its own, and all it can ever do is be itself again. It is the worst kind of reincarnation. Lame! That is so lame! And it's everywhere!" she cried, going to the bathroom to splash water on her face.
~ Aimee Bender
Everything that has happened to others will happen to him, too. No one gets away.
~ Alain de Botton
Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.
~ Alan Bennett
At eighty, things do not occur; they recur.
~ Alan Bennett
Everything you think, feel, say, and do contains seeds of more of itself.
~ Alan Cohen
La muerte es la forma que tiene el universo de limpiar lo que ya ha cumplido con su propósito, para dejar vía libre al siguiente acto de propósito.
~ Alan Cohen
Your high arousal also fuels negative and judgmental thinking, which further fuels negative emotional arousal—a vicious cycle.
~ Alan E. Fruzzetti
Of course, it is painful when your partner verbally attacks you. Recognize that by responding in kind, you are almost guaranteeing more volleys in your direction, the negative cycle will continue, and you will find no peace.
~ Alan E. Fruzzetti
Eve: All this riot and uproar, V... is this Anarchy? Is this the Land of Do-As-You-Please? V: No. This is only the land of take-what-you-want. Anarchy means without leaders, not without order. With anarchy comes an age or ordnung, of true order, which is to say voluntary order... this age of ordung will begin when the mad and incoherent cycle of verwirrung that these bulletins reveal has run its course... This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.
~ Alan Moore
The eternal cycle, the beginning, middle and end of a human being, the incomprehensible dance in the magic of our own theatre will continue forever. But ignorance of our birth and death makes us largely mad; the majority of us clap at our disasters as though they are a play: but it is a work we cannot possibly understand.
~ Derek Raymond
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
Each moment is a fruit of the past and seed of future.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Taken psychologically, the idea of rebirth is about having multiple opportunities to break the cycle of fear and find meaning, without 'consuming' anyone.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
So it has been before. So it will be again.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Arjuna, that which is born will die and that which will die will be born. So it is pointless to cling and mourn. —Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 27 (paraphrased).
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Such is the law of karma. Every action, howsoever innocent, has a reaction, that one has to experience if not in this life, then in the next,' said
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
What Yudhishtira learnt—the point of existence is not to accumulate merit, but to attain wisdom. We have to ask ourselves—why do we do what we do? When we truly accept the answer, we break free from the cycle of births and deaths,
~ Devdutt Pattanaik