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• Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Vicious, Strokes, Turns

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• Ah, when shall all men's good
  Be each man's rule, and universal peace
  Lie like a shaft of light across the land,
  And like a lane of beams athwart the sea,
  Thro' all the circle of the golden year?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Peace, Lying, Men

  'The Golden Year' (1846) l. 47

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• The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving her running in circles.

  Lou Reed

  Family, Girl, Mother

  Song: Endless Cycle, Album: New York

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• Everybody isn't your friend. Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn't mean they're for you. Just because they say they got got your back, doesn't mean they won't stab you in it. People pretend well. Jealousy sometimes doesn't live far. So know your circle. At the end of the day real situations expose fake people so pay attention.

  Trent Shelton

  Jealousy, Fake Friends, Fake People

  FaceBook post by Trent Shelton from Nov 05, 2013

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• Sometimes you get there in spite of the route Losing track of your life and what it's about The road seems to know when to straighten right out... I could wonder if all of it led me to you I could show you the arrows and circles I drew I didn't have a map, it's the best I could do On the fly and on the run

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Life, Running, Arrows

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• Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pyramids, Anarchy, Individual

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.158, Oxford University Press

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• Just as a circle embraces all that is within it, so does the God-head embrace all. No one has the power to divide this circle, to surpass it, or to limit it.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Doe, Limits, Embrace

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• If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Family, Children, Home

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And you already belong. You belong to humanity. You belong to life. You belong to this moment, this breath.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Humanity, Mindfulness, Moments

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2012). “Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment—and Your Life”, p.62, Sounds True

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• One of the reasons we're here, that we exist at all, is that Earth, cosmically speaking, is in a relatively peaceful place: orbiting our Sun in a near perfect circle.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Perfect, Peaceful, Earth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.

  David Hume

  Disappointment, Grief, Giving

  David Hume (1826). “The philosophical works of David Hume”, p.13

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• I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.

  Carl Jung

  Resistance, Sun, Sin

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Equality, Opposites

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• There is no man of Nature's worth
  In the circle of the earth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Men, Humanity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.92, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes the serpent is represented as a circle eating its own tail. That’s an image of life. Life sheds one generation after another, to be born again. The serpent represents immortal energy and consciousness engaged in the field of time, constantly throwing off death and being born again. There is something tremendously terrifying about life when you look at it that way. And so the serpent carries in itself the sense of both the fascination and the terror of life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Generations, Tails, Looks

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• We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Moving, Thinking

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• O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Fickle, Variables

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 107

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• But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Stars, Rain, Moon

  Madeleine L'Engle (1968). “Prelude”

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• Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

  Jane Austen

  Attachment, Interest

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.952, Wordsworth Editions

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• If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, May, Way

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cat, Secret, Secret Thoughts

  Agnes Repplier (1901). “The Fireside Sphinx”

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• Does a one-legged duck swim in circles?

  Rhodri Morgan

  Ducks, Swim, Doe

  "This is the week that". The Times, December 05, 1998.

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• A lot of times people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles.

  Jan Koum

  Running, Ideas, People

  "We want a billion Indians on WhatsApp, says co-founder Jan Koum". Interview with Romit Guha, economictimes.indiatimes.com. February 26, 2014.

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• The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Lying, Men

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• Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

  Lisa Unger

  Motherhood, Bye, Good Bye

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