Quotes about Cycle

This is a changing world. It changes from day to day, year to year, and from age to age. Rivers deepen their gorges as they carry more land to the sea. Mountains rise, only to be leveled gradually by winds and rain. Continents rise and sink into the sea. Such are the gradual changes of the physical earth as days add into years and years combine to become ages.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.

But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope), ...

With so many trees in the city, you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. [...] Part of you died each year when leaves fell from the tress and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen.

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

If every birth is a rebirth, and if every life pays for the previous life, then what were you paying for in your first birth?

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.