Quotes about Cycles
And yet love obstinately answers that no loved one is standardized. A body, love insists, is neither a spirit nor a machine; it is not a picture, a diagram, a chart, a graph, an anatomy; it is not an explanation; it is not a law. It is precisely and uniquely what it is. It belongs to the world of love, which is a world of living creatures, natural orders and cycles, many small, fragile lights in the dark.
- Wendell Berry
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
- Edmund Burke
Peoples, like planets, possess the right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night.
- Victor Hugo
the idea of eternal return implies a perspective from which things appear [...] without the mitigating circumstances of their transitory nature
- Milan Kundera
There is no birth and death; everything dies and renews itself all the time. When you get that kind of insight, you no longer tire yourself out with anxiety and aversion.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Often our thinking goes around and around in circles, so we lose all our joy in living.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.
- Khalil Gibran
It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.
- John Bunyan
You must observe the risings of the Sun and the changings of the Moon, because to everything there is a season.
- Margaret Atwood
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
- George Bernard Shaw
But I will now go further, and confess to you that men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.
- George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing new under the sun. It has been done before.
- Arthur Conan Doyle