Circles Quotes

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• If you cut corners you just keep on going in circles.

  Grant Stoelwinder

  Sports, Cutting, Corners

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• At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he'd been a mime, odds are he'd already be dead.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Moving, Men, Odds

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• The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Selfish, Passion

  "Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1841-1842.

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  The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Wisdom, Next

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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• A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Music, Reflection, Getting Over You

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• Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Turns, Rounds

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• Come out of the circle of time
  And into the circle of love.

  Rumi

  Love, Marriage, Spiritual

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• and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Song, Years, Long

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• All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown; Moon rolls thru the nighttime; Till the daybreak comes around.

  Harry Chapin

  Moon, Sunrise, Nighttime

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• The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Errors, Fog

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.22

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• Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

  Alexander Pope

  Future, Heaven, May

  Alexander Pope (1820). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John Lord Bolinbroke. To which are Added the Universal Prayer, Messiah, and Elegy”, p.7

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• Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is.

  Ellen Terry

  Eccentric, Knows

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

  Mark Twain

  Lines, Holes, Middle

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.152, 谷月社

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• The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is distinguished by the fact that it is one of the most important of them from the functional point of view. Indeed, it could even be called the archetype of wholeness.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Views, Important

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.388, Princeton University Press

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• Stories move in circle.  They don’t move in straight lines.  So it helps if you listen in circles.  There are stories inside stories and stories between stories and finding your way through them is as easy and as hard as finding your way home.  And part of the finding is the getting lost.  And when you’re lost you start to look around and to listen.

  Deena Metzger

  Moving, Home, Way

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• Wander into the center of the circle of wonder.

  Hongzhi Zhengjue

  Wonder, Wander

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• My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
  Did all within this circle move!

  Edmund Waller

  Grief, Moving, Joy

  Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.”, p.54

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• A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.

  Rumi

  Quiet People, Lovely, Fingers

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• Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Time, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.403, Library of America

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• To our way of thinking the Indians' symbol is the circle, the hoop. Nature wants to be round. The bodies of human beings and animals have no corners. With us, the circle stands for togetherness of people who sit with one another around the campfire, relatives and friends united in peace while the sacred pipe passes from hand to hand. To us this is beautiful and fitting, symbol and reality at the same time, expressing the harmony of life and nature.

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Beautiful, Reality, Thinking

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• All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth Is, Crooked

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.175, Courier Corporation

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• When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.

  Zhuangzi

  Taoism, Spirituality, Philosopher

  Zhuangzi (1974). “Chuang tsu: Inner chapters”, Vintage Books USA

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• All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Eternity, Form, All Things

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.28, Enhanced Media Publishing

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