Cycles Quotes

“CIRCLES OF LIFE

Everything
Turns,
Rotates,
Spins,
Circles,
Loops,
Pulsates,
Resonates,
And
Repeats.

Circles
Of life,
Born from
Pulses
Of light,
Vibrate
To
Breathe,
While
Spiraling
Outwards
For
Infinity
Through
The lens
Of time,
And into
A sea
Of stars
And
Lucid
Dreams.

Poetry by Suzy Kassem”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“What was scattered
gathers.
What was gathered
blows away.”
― Heraclitus

“Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties?”
― Roman Payne

“So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

“And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky says in the evening, over and over and over.”
― Hermann Hesse

“It's all a series of serendipities
with no beginnings and no ends.
Such infinitesimal possibilities
Through which love transcends.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

“…evils are not caused by God; rather, that they are a part of the nature of matter and of mankind; that the period of mortal life is the same from beginning to end, and that because things happen in cycles, what is happening now — evils that is — happened before and will happen again.”
― Celsus, On the True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians

“Once we start to work with Feminine power we begin to see that it is not our minds that are in control of this power – it ebbs and flows with the movements of the planets, the procession of the seasons, the moons and tides, our own internal cycles of menstruality, anniversaries, the events around us. All these and more impact our experience and expressions of power. We learn to become aware of these various patterns and their impact on us and work more consciously with rather than against or in spite of them. We learn that they are all part of the same process. We open towards the energy, rather than shut down to it. We learn to trust the flow.”
― Lucy H. Pearce, Burning Woman

“One age ends, and another begins. It is the way of things. But, it doesn't happen all at once.”
― Derek Donais, MetalMagic: Talisman

“If it weren’t for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter captive on a shit-laden perch.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life. The past is history. The future is mysterious. Then tomorrow—this starts all over again.”
― Kat Lahr, Parallelism Of Cyclicality

“The frost which kills the harvest of a year, saves the harvests of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust. Wars, fires, plagues, break up immovable routine, clear the ground of rotten races and dens of distemper, and open a fair field to new men. There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters a rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order. The sharpest evils are bent into that periodicity which makes the errors of planets, and the fevers and distempers of men, self-limiting. Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome. Without war, no soldier; without enemies, no hero.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: By Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Lives aren’t completed.
They’re concluded.
You are, and forever will be, unfinished.
This is nature.
Cycles and spectrums.
Moments and seasons.
Do you ask when the weather will be complete? The spring finished?
Your life won’t have one point or purpose.
You’re lovelier than that.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Love Notes From The Hollow Tree

“Nobody could rule this world merely by peace.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Huge hills and mountains of casks on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side by side the world-wandering whale ships lay silent and safely moored at last; while from others came a sound of carpenters and coopers, with blended noises of fires and forges to melt the pitch, all betokening that new cruises were on the start; that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and aye. Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“This is the season to courageously reassess, release, and reset. What isn't feeding you spiritually or energetically? It's time to end a dead cycle.”
― Robin S. Baker

“You men always try to tell our story. You men always get it wrong.”
― Clay McLeod Chapman, The Remaking

“If you want to break the cycle, you have to do something you’ve never done before.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Well, it's probably like any bankruptcy. The longer you're able to put it off the worse it's going to be. The next great war wont arrive until everyone who remembers the last one is dead.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“Every ending writes the first chapter of something new.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“It was a pattern the Sisterhood had long recognized: the inevitable failure of slavery and peonage. You created a reservoir of hate. Implacable enemies. If you had no hope of exterminating all of these enemies, you dared not try. Temper your efforts by the sure awareness that oppression will make your enemies strong. The oppressed will have their day and heaven help the oppressor when that day comes. It was a two-edged blade. The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence—rotes reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“The trouble was, after such extended and demonstrable drug use, it’s impossible to be happy just being yourself; instead you need something else
to feel okay. The whole cycle is a trap that not only creates potholes in your brain, but also takes away control of your most valuable possession: yourself.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Even beneath the lively bloomed flowers of spring, always lie the dead fallen leaves of autumn.”
― Lakshya Chouhan

“And that lump of concrete, she belatedly realised, had been a fragment of the Berlin Wall. Hence its presence in the O.B.'s study. Much of his life had been dedicated to bringing that wall down, or that was how it appeared in retrospect. Perhaps it had simply been dedicated to fighting those who'd put it up, the wall itself being no more than a marker of which side he'd been on. Given a different birthplace, he might have been equally happy resisting the values of the west. Either way, at the end of the long road travelled, that chunk had come to rest on his bookshelf, symbolic of a temporary victory. Because history was cyclical, of course, and more walls would be built, and there'd always be those who hoped it would be better on one side than the other, and die attempting to find out. And in the longer run those walls would fall too, along with the despots who'd built them, crushed by the bricks they'd stacked so high. Walls couldn't last.”
― Mick Herron, Slough House

“The voices did their best. And I was damned
for sure, I thought
But the call came, and the wind in my hair

felt different; infinite.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Altered States of the Unflinching Souls

“How many people were in this endless cycle of guilt? Cal blamed herself for Astra, Ismene regretted leaving home, Pierce refused to say the name of the man he’d both loved and deserted. And even Aeric, who Marina had convinced herself was at fault for everything, had never pined for Kieron’s reign more than he’d pined for his approval. How different was he, really, from the rest of the lonely people plagued by guilt—by this cycle? How different was she?”
― Melissa K. Magner, Of the Sun and Sea

“Hands extending, arms elongating, eyes enlarging, and crevices opening. Decaying. Jumping and leaping through each sand body she leaves behind. Ending. Starting. Door. Another Door. Wooden. Number.”
― Kolter Sands, Tomiétrèla

“Here’s your breakfast nugget: Affirm it and receive it, only if it’s for you. Feel free to: Like, Tag and share!

Deuteronomy 2:3 — “You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north.”

You have done this thing… this sin, this cycle, this abuse, this tolerance, this disrespect, this narcissistic way so many times. When are you going to stop and turn in another direction?

If you are tired of the same cycles and patterns repeat this and mean it. Say it, post it, repeat it daily until it’s real in your life.

“The cycle ends with me. I am the interruption hell didn’t see coming.”

“This morning, I heard the Spirit whisper: ‘You’ve seen this before, but this time you’ll respond differently. This time, you’ll walk away healed, not haunted.’
Cycles don’t end when circumstances change—they end when your response does.”

Read that again!”
― Dr. Angela L. Hood

“Cycles don’t end when circumstances change—they end when your response does.”
― Dr. Angela L. Hood

“Every morning, before beginning our day's labor, we gathered together in the parlor for prayers and Father's brief sermon, and even though I had grown long used to these solemn services, they nevertheless uplifted me, as I believe they did the others, and made the day's work easier, for despite my unbelief, the services connected our labor to something larger than ourselves and our petty daily needs. Father's intention, I am sure, was precisely that–to lead us to understand our woodcutting and plowing and constant care of animals, the day-long manufacture of our meals and the permanent ongoing repair of our tools and equipment, and our endless preparation for the long winter, such that we would believe that we were participating in a great cycle of life, as if we were tiny arcs of an enormous curve, a universal template that began with birth and ended with death and which, if participated in fully and without shirking, would lead us to a second and still larger cycle of rebirth and regeneration, to an infinite spiral, as it were. Thus, as the fields were prepared and sown, so too were our inner lives being prepared and sown, and as our land and our livestock grew fruitful and multiplied, so did our spirits blossom and bear fruit, and as we dried and salted and stored our food and supplies in sawdust and hay for winter, so would our spirits and minds be prepared to endure the inescapable suffering and deaths of our loved ones, which would come to us as inevitably as the freezing winds and the deep, drifting snows of winter.”
― Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter