Circles Quotes - Page 9

• Everything does go in a circle.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Doe

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• There have always been a large class of thinkers who deny that the world makes any progress. They say we move in a circle; that evils are never conquered, but only change their forms.

  Lydia M. Child

  Moving, Class, Evil

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• This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In the end, to take a step without feet; to regard this world as invisible, and to disregard what appears to be the self. Heart, I said, what a gift it has been to enter this circle of lovers, to see beyond seeing itself, to reach and feel within the breast.

  Rumi

  Letting Go, Fall, Heart

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Believe, Atheism, Triangles

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• Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!

  Amy Ray

  Full Circle, Action, Said

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• In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only the reactionary ruling circles that oppress the black people. They can in no way represent the workers, farmers, revolutionary intellectuals and other enlightened persons who comprise the overwhelming majority of the white people.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Class, White

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.

  Dante Alighieri

  Squares, Sight, Principles

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “Paradiso”, p.285, Bantam Classics

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• In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Philosophical, Thinking

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• Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, pp. 257-258, 1963.

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• Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Formulas, Defined

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.213, Princeton University Press

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• Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is exerting a certain amount of power for good or harm. Every woman, by her virtue or her vice, by her folly or her wisdom, by her levity or her dignity, is adding something to our national elevation or degradation. A community is not likely to be overthrown where woman fulfills her mission, for by the power of her noble heart over the hearts of others, she will raise that community from its ruins and restore it again to prosperity and joy.

  John Angell James

  Heart, Character, Rich Or Poor

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• You have to remember that goodbyes are temporary because no one ever really leaves and nothing lasts forever. People are always with us, because they are in our hearts and in our memory. The only thing we can depend on is change... Life is just a series of moments -- a string of pearls that make up the necklace of your life and so every once in a while, to complete the circle, you need to end a chapter.

  Amy Poehler

  Goodbye, Memories, Life Changing

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• We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire.

  Heraclitus

  Night, Fire

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• No question about it: potential is wrapped in great mystery. Like rainbows, which are really circles-we see only the upper halves, the horizon hides the rest-potential never reveals its entirety.

  Max De Pree

  Rainbow, Coaching, Horizon

  Max De Pree (1997). “Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community”, Jossey-Bass

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• First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.

  Virginia Woolf

  Air, Musical, Warning

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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• I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Running, Romance, Religion

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• I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Reading, People, Lao Tzu

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Let our hearts touch far horizons.
  Let our love know no borders,
  Draw the Circles wide until,
  No one stands alone.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Heart, Borders, Horizon

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• It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Moving Forward, Inspiration

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• Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation. When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are rarely the center of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous curve.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Letting Go, Curves, Unbroken

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “For Hans Carossa”

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• You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes the rest.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  I Love You More, Flames, Darkness

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows, Joanna Macy (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• From the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of circles will be nine.

  Nostradamus

  Horse, Morning, Numbers

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• We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have named this circle God. We might have given it any other name we wished: Abyss, Mystery, Absolute Darkness, Absolute Light, Matter, Spirit, Ultimate Hope, Ultimate Despair, Silence.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Names, Light, Silence

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Spirals, Form, Vicious

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951”, Library of America

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• My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

  Franz Kafka

  Doubt

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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