Circle Of Life Quotes

“It's the ciiiiiiiiiiiiircle of liiiiiiiiiife!" Iggy sang”
― James Patterson, The Final Warning

“That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”
― H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure

“Death in itself is a beautiful process. It's like being born.”
― Todd Perelmuter, Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life

“Death is the great equaliser. No matter how rich or how poor, we're all going in the same direction.”
― Todd Perelmuter, Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life

“I have always believed reincarnation to be true. This will go on and on until one discovers oneself. But at times, my thinking deviates a bit from eastern philosophy. I don’t think our bad karmas would make us cockroaches, rats, pigs, etc., in our next lives. I am of the view that achieving Moksha isn’t possible unless we experience everything that could be experienced. I have to experience oppression, but I also have to oppress. I have to be a sparrow to experience the joy of flight. I have to be a bee to experience colours beyond the visible spectrum. And I have to be a dog to hear ultrasonic sounds. Do you get it? I have to experience everything to achieve moksha. Becoming a bee in the next life is not the result of my bad Karma. It is instead a stepping stone. The path to ascension has to be a spiral. Not round and round. Every decision of mine has to lead there. Every step has to lead me towards self-actualization.”
― Abhaidev, The World's Most Frustrated Man

“Everybody lives on because life lives on. We're all the same life force energy. And that will go on forever.

Life will go on experiencing the universe just as the universe intended.”
― Todd Perelmuter, Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life

“The hands reaching in
among the leaves and spines
were once my mother's.
I've passed them on.
Decades ahead, you'll study your own
temporary hands, and you'll remember.
Don't cry, this is what happens.”
― Margaret Atwood, Dearly

“destiny moves in mysterious ways, doesn’t it? Binding us together all the way back then.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him 'What is the beginning of God?' he would answer without hesitation 'God has no beginning', and he is not astonished at his own reply.”
― Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

“Life begins like a dream, becomes a little real, and ends like a dream.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Chrissy said there were only two forces in the world and they balance each other: life and death. Creation and destruction. But she’s wrong. There’s only one. Because no matter how hard we try, we can’t stop life. No matter how much we fight, no matter how many we kill, things keep changing, and growing, and living, and people get lost, and fall away, and come back, and get born, and move on, and no matter what it’s all so much, it’s all so hard, the way life just keeps going and going.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Final Girl Support Group

“Whenever a light blinked out, life threw another switch; rooms were illumined afresh.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Golden Apples of the Sun

“I would say it was too late, but time has stopped meaning what it used to. I don't mind anymore. I see how things work now, from this side. I was born and I died. I will come back. Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive.”
― Akwaeke Emezi

“Everyone is the son of his works.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Dom Quixote de la Mancha: Vol. I

“The strays beyond the railroad are barking, which means something, a rabbit or possum, has just slipped out of its life and into the world.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“मौसम की बदमिजाजगी के चलते अपने बंकर ख़ाली छोड़ने पर कारगिल युद्ध झेलना पड़ा था । प्रकृति का नियम है कि कोई भी जगह ज़्यादा देर ख़ाली नहीं रहती । ख़ाली स्थान भरने के लिए जल्दी ही दूसरे दबंग पहुंच जाते हैं ।”
― Vandana Yadav, कितने मोर्चे

“Where life comes to an end, more should begin.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“It's no use being a devil if you want to beam light into the world. Radiate good energy and good energy will find its way back to you.”
― Torron-Lee Dewar

“The Walker by Stewart Stafford

The walker takes a step forward,
Positive but possibly fatal to them,
Brave but perhaps foolishly ambitious to onlookers.

Concentration and breathing, the antidote to cynicism,
The pole, like cat’s whiskers,
In feline prance.

Moment to moment,
Heartbeat to heartbeat,
The procession continues.

With creeping inevitably,
The destination is reached,
And the walker falls to their death.

Another adventurer steps out onto the wire,
A descendant of the expired walker,
Determined to complete life’s tightrope.

© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Life Cycles by Stewart Stafford

From fair youth’s day,
To dark-spotted age,
The blooms of May,
Usher out winter’s sullen maze.

When the bars of the juvenile cage are splayed,
And our stars have run their course,
The debt of carefree times gets repaid,
As we from this earthly plain divorce.

We crawl to walk and stoop alone,
As the dead remain uncured,
Until Time grants us further loans,
Immortality is a bloodline secured.

© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“In the thousands of years before European colonists landed in the West, the area that would come to be occupied by the United States and Canada produced only a handful of lasting foods---strawberries, pecans, blueberries, and some squashes---that had the durability to survive millennia. Mexico and South America had a respectable collection, including corn, peppers, beans, tomatoes, potatoes, pineapples, and peanuts. But the list is quaint when compared to what the other side of the world was up to. Early civilizations in Asia and Africa yielded an incalculable bounty: rice, sugar, apples, soy, onions, bananas, wheat, citrus, coconuts, mangoes, and thousands more that endure today.
If domesticating crops was an earth-changing advance, figuring out how to reproduce them came a close second. Edible plants tend to reproduce sexually. A seed produces a plant. The plant produces flowers. The flowers find some form of sperm (i.e., pollen) from other plants. This is nature beautifully at work. But it was inconvenient for long-ago humans who wanted to replicate a specific food they liked. The stroke of genius from early farmers was to realize they could bypass the sexual dance and produce plants vegetatively instead, which is to say, without seeds. Take a small cutting from a mature apple tree, graft it onto mature rootstock, and it'll produce perfectly identical apples. Millenia before humans learned how to clone a sheep, they discovered how to clone plants, and every Granny Smith apple, Bartlett pear, and Cavendish banana you've ever eaten leaves you further indebted to the people who figured that out.
Still, even on the same planet, there were two worlds for almost all of human time. People are believed to have dug the first roots of agriculture in the Middle East, in the so-called Fertile Crescent, which had all the qualities of a farmer's dream: warm climate; rich, airy soil; and two flowing rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates. Around ten thousand years before Jesus walked the earth, humans taught themselves how to grow grains like barley and wheat, and soon after, dates, figs, and pomegranates.”
― Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

“Makes me wonder if life is just a circle. The young just started life and maybe that makes them closer to life that’s ending…I can’t help but feel that I witness more wisdom and a sort of spirituality in more children than I do adults.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“Contentment and joy and grief all blurred together---and in a way, Eliza had become the color. And the world, the water, so that all the pieces of her blended in unexpected ways as the canvas was turned a little to the left, a little to the right, and the pink dripped down into the blue, down into the yellow, down into the brown, and so on; life and loss and harvest from season to season. A garden's blooms, continually returning for another encore until the circularity of it all becomes in itself a promise through the winter and the spring and the summer and the fall. Always turning, always returning color to the ground and color to the sky.”
― Ashley Clark, Paint and Nectar

“I've been going around in circles all my life. I am bypassing zeros.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Death is an inevitable part of life. We all know that we will one day leave this world, but we often forget how precious each moment is until it's too late.”
― Sam Izad, Snackable Existentialism: Small Portions, Big Ideas

“The Cycle's Whisper by Stewart Stafford

A crisp mountain breeze,
Whispers on verdant meadows,
In the starlings' murmuration,
Bodies flutter as the wind blows.

River salmon leap upstream,
To the places of their siring,
All the tests of life in the flesh,
With thrashing bodies expiring.

Starving bears lie in wait to
Shorten the fading quest,
Or a moribund swim home,
To a watery boneyard's rest.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The Indian observed that there were no straight lines in Nature. The Sun and the Moon were round, and so was the Earth. The rising and the setting of the Sun was a circular motion. Birds built their nests in circles. The growth pattern of trees and rocks was circular. Many Indians lived in circular homes called tipis , and native communities were set up around a circle because the whole of Nature expressed itself in circular patterns. Only the white man, it seemed, thought of everything in straight lines.”
― Kenneth Meadows, Earth Medicine: Revealing Hidden Teachings of the Native American Medicine Wheel

“The fireflies, they are beautiful… But their beauty may not last long. The beetle flashes their light for only a few weeks each summer. After they mate and lay their eggs, they die,” said Phrin.
“If their sole purpose is to procreate, then the only worthy thing is their short-lived beautiful life.” She added. “But we are human, not fireflies. Aren’t we? We… have a long life and we live more than just that…”
― Asvoria K., Teleios: Flaw, is Perfect!

“These pictures. A hundred years. My great-grandparents. The Civil War. My parents. The world wars. My brothers. I just think of what all these people went through. To produce me. Me. I'm the result. Ah, Jesus, Duke, what happened to us? How did we get to be what we are? I just can't stand thinking about it - it's so awful. So sad.”
― Lawrence Sanders, The Anderson Tapes

“On Ceres, the circle of life was so small you could see the curve.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes