Cycles Quotes - Page 32

• You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Mind, Desire, Aversion

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Time, Men, Past

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (14), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• If I want to free myself from endless cycles of struggling with temptation, I need to keep rediscovering that the pain of the struggle is greater than the pain of the desire. If I develop the habit of restraining myself, I'll enjoy the relief of feeling the desires pass, and I'll remember that desires are not the problem. Feeling pushed around by them is. I'll continue to have desires, of course, because I'm alive, but they'll be more modest in their demands.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Pain, Struggle, Temptation

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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• I have always been fascinated by the life cycle, the way skin metamorphoses over time. I am mesmerized by skin and that's why I've been attracted to the nude. I do think people show their soul when they are stripped down psychically. There is something wondrous that happens when we relate on that level - and I am interested in that depth.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Thinking, People

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• To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.

  Stephen Covey

  Judging, Rejection, Understanding

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• Tonight, I propose a 21st Century Crime Bill to deploy the latest technologies and tactics to make our communities even safer. Our balanced budget will help put up to 50,000 more police on the street in the areas hardest hit by crime, and then to equip them with new tools from crime-mapping computers to digital mug shots. We must break the deadly cycle of drugs and crime.

  William J. Clinton

  Technology, Community, Police

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• The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Real, Character, Smell

  "I have done nothing" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2009.

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• The paralyzing effect of fear makes us as helpless as babies and blinds us to the truth that God didn't send us here to be powerless spectators, but to become powerful initiators. We are spiritual beings having an earthly experience, and we have the power to break the cycle of negativity that is fueling a very dangerous world. It's not only possible, it's why we are here.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Spiritual, Baby, Powerful

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• Things go in cycles. It's like fashion, like flares go out then skinny jeans come in, people want something fresh. It's the strongest ever urban scene at the moment and I hope it can progress and keep getting stronger and be the base for something larger.

  Katy B

  Fashion, Jeans, Want Something

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Mourning your first love is as important as meeting your first love. It's the whole cycle.

  Jane Anderson

  First Love, Love Is, Mourning

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• Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.

  Grace Jones

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Caught

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• It's hard for anyone in the 24-hour news cycles that we all live in now to follow something that the first round is played in March and the final finishes in December. I understand the challenges there.

  Jim Courier

  Challenges, Finals, News

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• What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle.

  Marie Osmond

  Stress, Wicked, Trying

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• Ah, if only a few more massacres would suffice To sort it all out once and for all With so many uprisings and so many fallen heads In Paradise we should all be by now! But the wished-for Golden Age is endlessly postponed The gods remain so thirsty, they are insatiable Thus it is death, an endless cycle of death

  Georges Brassens

  Death, Uprising, Age

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• Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the ocean of transmigration, the cycle of birth and death. The mantra is the oar of the boat; it is the instrument you use to cross the samsara of your restless mind, with its unending thought waves. The mantra can also be compared to a ladder that you climb to reach the heights of God realization.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Ocean, Restless Mind, Names

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• Many of us may have watched the waves at sea. They rise, then fall, then rise again, then fall again... and this cycle continues endlessly. It is the same with our experience of the world and its objects and relationships. We may find happiness, but this happiness will soon turn to sorrow. The sorrow that we feel will subsequently turn back to happiness but this oscillation continues endlessly. In order to maintain inner balance, we need to find peace within instead of depending on the external world.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Fall, Order

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• Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Real, Purpose

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 6”, p.22, M A Center

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• Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate; he will not lift his hand to save his life; he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tired, Adventure, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.156, Harvard University Press

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• Singularitarians are the munchkins of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Real, Wish, Usual

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• As stated before, hypothyroidism may cause premature or delayed puberty. The majority of normal and hypothyroid females begin their cycle at ages 12 or 13. However, a growing number of those with hypothyroidism start their cycle years earlier or begin their periods at age 15 or later. Premature or delayed puberty in males is also becoming more common.

  Mark Starr

  Years, Pms, Numbers

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• In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

  Abdus Salam

  Respect, Civilization, Gone

  Abdus Salam, Ahmed Ali (1994). “Selected Papers of Abdus Salam: (with Commentary)”, p.306, World Scientific

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• Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.

  Paul Volcker

  Business, Thinking, Inventory

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• We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill - and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Fighting, Israel, Blood

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• "We must learn that the electric Universe of motion is divided into wave cycles which are equally divided into opposite expressions"

  Walter Russell

  Expression, Opposites, Wave

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• Buying gold is just buying a put against the idiocy of the political cycle. It's that simple.

  Kyle Bass

  Simple, Political, Gold

  BBC HARDTalk Interview, November 15, 2011.

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