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Quotes About Cycle

God creates the world as Brahma, sustains it as Vishnu and destroys it as Shiva.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
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, and discover the realm beyond Swarga, Vaikuntha, where there is peace forever.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Thus, metaphysically, Kalki will destroy everything, even death. He will destroy all structures so that none exist. In other words, he will herald Pralaya.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
What is the most amazing thing about the world? 'Every day creatures die, yet the rest live as if immortal.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
The notion of karma is unique to Indian thought. No action exists in isolation. Every decision impacts the ecosystem. Karma is often mistaken for the adage, "As you sow, so shall you reap.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Every victim will, given a chance, turn victimizer.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.
~ Diane Ackerman
till you get to the full Moon.
~ Diane Ahlquist
Moon. That's when we want things to grow and get bigger and bigger. Even if you want to lose weight, when it comes to a vision board, think of the weight
~ Diane Ahlquist
Superfecundation is the term used when twins are conceived from sperm from different men if a woman has had more than one partner during a menstrual cycle. It is not known how often this happens, but if suspected, then paternity can be checked by DNA testing (Terasaki et al 1978).
~ Diane M. Fraser
A wave never strikes the shoreline twice
~ Dianne Marie Teresa Cole
Man is born as he dies, rebuking cleanliness;
~ Djuna Barnes
Borac život iznova zapo?inje svakog trenutka, kako ga i okon?ava.
~ Dobrica ?osi?
We must choose this, if we have the debt to pay. Murder in one life, and be murdered in the next. Rape in one, be raped in another. We decide if we pay now or later; balancing all that is in the great wheel of life.
~ Don Bradley
Once again, the wheel was turning; the time for rest was over.
~ Don Bradley
We know our land was here before we came and that it will be here long after we are gone. With our wine, we have survived wars, the Revolution and phylloxera. Each harvest renews promises made in the spring. We live with the continuing cycle. This gives us a taste of eternity.
~ Don Kladstrup
The vicious cycle starts: if you fail at something, you think it is your fault. Therefore you think you can't do that task. As a result, next time you have to do the task, you believe you can't, so you don't even try. The result is that you can't, just as you thought.
~ Donald A. Norman
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
~ Samuel Beckett, Endgame
The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.
~ Joel Salatin
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.
~ Peter Heller, The Dog Stars
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.
~ Ashly Lorenzana