Quotes about Cycle

Only birth can conquer death — the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new. Within the soul, within the body social, there must be — if we are to experience long survival — a continuous "recurrence of birth" (palingenesia) to nullify the unremitting recurrences of death.

The poet Yeats felt we were living in the last of a great Christian cycle. His poem "The Second Coming" says, "Turning and turning in the widening gyre/The falcon cannot hear the falconer;/Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned.

So the essence of life is this eating of itself! Life lives on lives

Goodbye..? Why can't we go back to page one and do it all over again?

Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

Each moment of the year has its own beauty

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

She hated endings. But if things didn't end, where would all the amazing beginnings be?

Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.

Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.