Cycles Quotes - Page 2

• Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Sight, Waiting, Lines

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1982.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Men, Animal

  4 Copy quote

• It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53)

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Machines, Vicious, Washing

  4 Copy quote

• We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed in feeling sorry for ourselves) behind. If we leave a place and take our selfishness with us, the cycle of problems starts all over again no matter where we go. But if we leave our selfishness behind, no matter where we are, things start to improve.

  John H. Groberg

  Sorry, Feelings, Selfishness

  John H. Groberg (1993). “The Other Side of Heaven”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?

  Wole Soyinka

  People, Evil, Pessimistic

  Wole Soyinka, Biodun Jeyifo (2001). “Conversations with Wole Soyinka”, p.159, Univ. Press of Mississippi

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew how to handle the grief. I didn't like who I'd become, but I was stuck in this horrible cycle of questions and blame.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Grief, Way, Helping

  7 Copy quote

• Earth, Ashes to ashes and dust to dust in mother earth we place our trust and as we cycle through our years we water it with blood and tears.

  Nancy Holder

  Mother, Dust, Blood

  Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguié (2010). “Wicked 2: Legacy & Spellbound”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable; the hour was inevitable when he would again find himself in sunshine or in moonlight, in shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of the onerous life cycle.

  Hermann Hesse

  Rain, Sunshine, Animal

  17 Copy quote

• The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Running, Psych, Creating

  "Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 1992.

  99 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story - the larger founded on the lesser in contact with the earth, the lesser drawing splendour from the vast backcloths - which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country. ... I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Country, Drama, Hands

  11 Copy quote

• The key thing is to invest in the future and what that means is when you're deploying technology or you're a technology business, is to make sure that you're keeping on the innovation cycle, where you're both creating and adopting the new business practices, and the new techniques in order to drive your business the right way.

  Reid Hoffman

  Mean, Technology, Order

  Source: bigthink.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It’s a vicious cycle.

  Susane Colasanti

  Hurt, Stupid, People

  41 Copy quote

• Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.

  Kwame Dawes

  Art, Play, Imagination

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Philosophical, Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (ZAMM)". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• By ending catch-and-release on the border, we will end the cycle of human smuggling and violence. Illegal border crossings will go down. We will stop it. It won't be happening very much anymore. Believe me.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, Borders, Violence

  Donald Trump's Acceptance Speech at the Republican Convention, time.com. July 22, 2016.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we are going to have a Fed, it should not fall into the tyranny of experts with the a fatal conceit that a few wise people can determine interest rates. Interest rates should be driven by the market, and people's time preference, and we see these boom-bust cycles.

  Charles Koch

  Wise, Fall, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The vicious cycle of violence is real. But if people simply stopped listening to their ignorant parents, their biased religions, their corrupt government and the prejudicial media, change would be quite easy. All it takes is courageous, fearless, unique individuals to make substantive change in this world. Unfortunately, there are very few courageous and fearless people.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Real, Unique, Government

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't know what you wanna describe as Rock 'n' Roll, but I certainly thought that 60s stuff, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, changed the world a little bit. But the effect seems to have retreated. I think it's harder than we think to change the world. These things go in cycles. It doesn't seem to have done an awful lot of good, does it? You know, all the talk of racial harmony and equality in the world... we haven't got a long way since the 60s.

  David Gilmour

  Thinking, Rocks, Long

  Source: www.pinkfloydonline.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• We create these boom-bust cycles by manipulating the money supply and the interest rates and directing it where it went in. And that is what happened with housing: pushed into housing combination of easy money plus all the regulations, and we created this boom-bust cycle, and corruption, because corruption goes with it, because you don't have the same discipline. So we've got to stop all that.

  Charles Koch

  Discipline, Regulation, Corruption

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

  Billy Corgan

  Phoenix, Life And Death, Ashes

  "The Great Pumpkin: Billy Corgan Discusses Tour, New Album, Personal Philosophy". Stereo IQ interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I live my life until I start the cycle of my dreams, then I leave and search for you until I die. When I come back, I live to remember. I live to find you.

  Molly Bryant

  Dream, Soulmate, Remember

  45 Copy quote

• As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and it’s the cycle of giving and getting.

  Russell Simmons

  Motivational, Inspirational Running, Giving

  "Russell Simmons Interview With ORIGIN Magazine: How To Make Positive Changes". Interview With Ocean Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2013.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• This entire process of stellar evolution is by natural process alone. We do not have to invoke Divine intervention at any stage in the history of the life-cycle of the stars that we observe.

  Hugh Ross

  Stars, Evolution, Natural

  7 Copy quote

• To achieve long-term success over many financial market and economic cycles, observing a few rules is not enough. Too many things change too quickly in the investment world for that approach to succeed. It is necessary instead to understand the rationale behind the rules in order to appreciate why they work when they do and don't when they don't.

  Seth Klarman

  Order, Long, Appreciate

  12 Copy quote

• I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  People, Together, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source