Humans like to consider everything as linear, when in reality everything is cyclical

• Humans like to consider everything as linear, when in reality everything is cyclic. They are obsessed with straight lines. Straight roads, straight houses, straight pieces of steel, glass, and timber. Straight cut diamonds. Let’s get straight to the point. Be straight with me. I am straight, not gay. And this is how they see their lives. A linear journey, along the road of life. That is where expressions such as Highway to Hell come from. But what about other expressions, such as the life cycle, the cycle of nature, and the weather cycle? Because of this obsession with straight lines, they view history and historical events, as existing way back along an imaginary path, one they are sure they are far away from. Like watching a fading wake from a ship. So when they look at the religious wars, for example, the Christians versus the Muslims, the rise and fall of Empires, democracies and dictatorships, they seem blind when comparing present day situations with those of the past. The majority of humans see evolution as a race along a straight race track, a race they are winning by a long margin, yet they are afraid to ever slow down, in case other life catches them. If they did slow down long enough, they may observe that the track is actually cyclic.  Robert Black

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Life is cyclical

• Life is a cycle. Marcel Marceau
• I laugh, that there’s a certain kind of cyclical nature to life and that I don’t have to worry because whatever isn’t there right now, it’s coming back again. Walter Mosley
• To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite. Miguel de Cervantes
• Life and values do run in cycles. Hugh Hefner
• 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
• Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final. Brian Tracy
• Life: a cycle. A series of events, meetings and departures. Friends discovered, others lost. Precious time, wastes away. Big droplet tears are shed for yesterday, but are dried in time for tomorrow, until all that remain are foggy, broken memories of a happy yesteryear. Daniella Callo
• Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.   Joan Z. Borysenko
• Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you can open up to the arrival of a new archetype, the birth of a new cycle of life. In the shadow, then, lies our myth and our fate. Connie Zweig
• I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Bruce Springsteen
• I tend to worry about each emergency or unforeseen complication on all my projects. But there are so many! All of life is unforeseen! So I am learning that is the cycle of life – everything is cyclical and temporary and to get ok with that someday could be my greatest achievement. Kristin Bauer van Straten
• Life is a cycle, always in motion, if good times have moved on, so will times of trouble. Indian proverb
• I tend to worry about each emergency or unforeseen complication on all my projects. But there are so many! All of life is unforeseen! So I am learning that is the cycle of life – everything is cyclical and temporary and to get ok with that someday could be my greatest achievement. Kristin Bauer van Straten
• The cycles of life flow with the rhythm of love. Harold W. Becker
• Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal. Young-Ha Kim
• Life by life and love by love
  We passed through the cycles strange,
  And breath by breath and death by death
  We followed the chain of change.
  Till there came a time in the law of life
  When over the nursing sod
  The shadows broke and the soul awoke
  In a strange, dim dream of God.
  Langdon Smith
• If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way. Erik Erikson

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Nature is cyclical

• I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular. The planet is circular, and so is the planet around the sun. The course of water over the earth is circular coming down from the sky and circulating through the world to spread life and then evaporating up again. I live in a circular teepee and build my fire in a circle. The life cycles of plants and animals are circular. I live outside where I can see this. The ancient people understood that our world is a circle, but we modern people have lost site of that. I don’t live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn’t flow, and where life stops. I don’t want to live in a dead place. People say that I don’t live in a real world, but it’s modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life. Elizabeth Gilbert
• Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life. Masanobu Fukuoka
• If you study the rhythm of life on this planet, you will find that everything moves in perfect symphony with everything else — by grand divine design. The earth has the ability to heal and regenerate itself, just as our oceans have the ability to replenish themselves by turning over their debris with the waves to wash them ashore. This perfect orchestration of the cycle of life is one of the Creator’s greatest and most beautiful miracles. The earth will continue to exist with or without us. So the real concern should be, will we be able to continue to co-exist with each other? Suzy Kassem

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Energy is cyclical

• Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythms—rarely if ever in simple straight lines. Starhawk
• A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans. Aldo Leopold

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Everything turns in circles and spirals

• Everything turns in circles and spirals with the cosmic heart until infinity. Everything has a vibration that spirals inward or outward — and everything turns together in the same direction at the same time. This vibration keeps going: it becomes born and expands or closes and destructs — only to repeat the cycle again in opposite current. Like a lotus, it opens or closes, dies and is born again. Such is also the story of the sun and moon, of me and you. Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms. Suzy Kassem

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There is the cycle of birth, life and death

• It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle – everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things. Alexander McQueen
• Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe. It’s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing. Paulo Coelho
• Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they’re all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That’s the lesson behind animals. Cesar Millan
• It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle – everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things. Alexander McQueen
• When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural and not unhappy thing that a life comes to its end. Rachel Carson
• I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good. Sherwin B. Nuland
• Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves and flowers, is back to smooth away the wrinkles, as the rains wipe away footprints on the beach. Again a cycle of birth and death begins. Nhat Hanh
• Mom says death is as natural as birth, and it’s all part of the life cycle. She says we don’t really understand it, but there are many things we don’t understand, and we just have to do the best we can with the knowledge we have.  I guess that makes sense.  Bill Watterson
• Unlike the clonal longevity of asexual organisms, sexually reproduced plants and animals usually have briefer, individual life cycles. In short, the enormous diversity afforded by the evolutionary invention of sexual reproduction came with a price – death of the individual. Richard J. Borden
• It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle – everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things. Alexander McQueen
• It behooves me to remember as I advance in age that death is an inevitable part of the life cycle rather than a medical failure. Lisa J. Shultz

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There is the cycle of death and rebirth

• Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form. Mata Amritanandamayi
• The process of creativity and life is one of death and rebirth, that’s constantly happening over and over again. Whether it’s an actual death or just a shift in perspective, that cycle is forever continuing. As an actor and person, that’s just something you have to accept. Seth Gabel
• 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
• Life is a cycle, a great wheel that turns throughout time: we are born, we live, we die, and (if we are lucky) we are reborn Robyn Bachar

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There is the cycle of death, decomposition and regeneration

• The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it’s only in death that life can be regenerated. Joel Salatin

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There is the cycle of the seasons passing

• Like the ever-changing cycle of the seasons, life has the soothing warmth of the summers and the piercing chill of its winters. But through it all, God walks with us. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• But winter was necessary. Why else would the world have it? The trees seemed to welcome the season, from the way they changed colors before they dropped their leaves and went to sleep. Winter was a part of a cycle, like day and night, life and death. Merrie Haskell
• All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one’s personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always. Truman Capote
• There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life. Jack Kornfield

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There is a cycle of youth, growth, maturity, aging and death

• Circular thinking sees and respects a cycle of youth, growth, maturity, aging and death. Alice Irene Whittaker
• Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion. Frederick Lenz

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There is a cycle of building and destroying

• The Gods have a lesson that tells you to build and destroy and that’s the cycle of life. Things have to be destroyed and then it has to be rebuilt. Mic Geronimo

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There is a cycle of ups and downs

• Up and down. That’s how you can describe real life in three words. But instead of accepting that life is cyclical, and that bad times are normal, we expect that we should always be on an upward cycle. Darius Forum

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There is a cycle of beginnings and endings

• Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don’t desire, but they’re inevitable, we have to face them. It’s what being human is all about. Jet Black
• Life is a cycle of ends and starts. Mark Webber
• To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending. Craig D. Lounsbrough
• Birth is painful and delightful. Death is painful and delightful. Everything that ends is also the beginning of something else. Pema Chödrön
• If there were no beginnings and if there were no endings, we would have the absence of inertia and the presence of stagnation. Craig D. Lounsbrough

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There is a cycle of success and failure

• Life is full of cycles that have a way of perpetuating themselves. Success and failure both feed on themselves. Things can go downhill quickly, with people bogged down by ineffective behavior and poor teamwork, unless leaders intervene to shift the cycle. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
• Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life’s cycle and it’s from failure that you gain life experience. Colin Powell

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Water is part of the cycle of life

• The oxygen cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the carbon cycle, the water cycle – all of these are linked to the existence of life in the sea. Sylvia Earle
• The upholder of the cycles which sustain all Life is water. In every drop of water dwells a deity whom indeed we all serve. Viktor Schauberger
• We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. Jacques Yves Cousteau

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History is a record of cycles

• The whole history of life is a record of cycles. Ellsworth Huntington
• I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. Lauren Groff

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Even the stars have a life cycle

• 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 have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally they die, to give back the material of which they are made so that new stars may live. Hans Bethe

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We are all part of the cycle of life

• We are all part of the life cycle. Like a seed we are born, we sprout, we grow, we mature and decay, making room for future generations who, like seedlings, are reborn through us. As for the persistence of consciousness, deep down, I thought, ‘How can we know?’ Perhaps we simply return to the elements; we become earth and air and fire and water. That seemed all right to me. Margot Adler
• Life is circular and cyclical and there are many prominent models to reinforce this. The same patterns can be seen in plant growth, the way waters move, and in the cycles of nature around us. By seeing that we are connected to the world around us, we are reminded that we are not alone, we are part of something larger, and from this connection we can find strength through transitions. Lucinda Bakken White

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Understand the cycles of life

• I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding. Erica Jong

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Honor and embrace the cycles of life

• There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life. Jack Kornfield
• Cyclical Living means living with the natural cycles like the seasons, the Moon cycle, and your menstrual cycle. Living cyclically is the key to better mental and physical health, more energy, happiness, productivity, and growth. Charlotte Fergusen
• The main lesson I learned is that nothing in life is static. We must respect the cyclical nature of life. And when we’re aware of where we stand in the cycle, we can make better decisions. Darius Foroux
• Life is an ever-moving circle. We grow close to others, then things fall away. We experience the joy of birth, then have to grieve what is lost. We feel we are close to recognizing our life’s purpose, then realize there is further seeking to be done. Once we realize that the movements and changes of life are part of a natural cycle, we can stop trying to control and resist them and instead experience the peace that can be found in surrender. Lucinda Bakken White

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Allow the cycles to flow

• Morning comes every day; the sunrise does not fail, nor the sunset. Give it time. That is all that may be required. Just give it time. Do not try to push the river. The cycles of life present themselves, play themselves out, and make smooth every passage and terrain.  Try not to get caught up in your story of the moment. Look, rather, to the Long Story. Therein will be found your peace. The cycles will redeem this moment, if you let them, and even this shall pass.  Neale Donald Walsch

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Transcend the cycle of life by standing in the timeless now

• Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form. Mata Amritanandamayi
• As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless. Rodney Yee

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On a lighter note

• It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Stop the life cycle-I want to get off! Barry Boehm