Circles Quotes

• Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Turns, Rounds

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• A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Music, Reflection, Getting Over You

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  The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Wisdom, Next

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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• Come out of the circle of time
  And into the circle of love.

  Rumi

  Love, Marriage, Spiritual

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

  Mark Twain

  Lines, Holes, Middle

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.152, 谷月社

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• Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Time, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.403, Library of America

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  Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

  May Sarton

  Life, Patience, Nature

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.97, Open Road Media

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• To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

  Gloria Steinem

  Success, Full Circle, Linear

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• The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Realizing, Turns, Knows

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• I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Community, World

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows, Joanna Macy (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Beautiful, Perfect, May

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 119, 1922.

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• The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

  John Hartford

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Spirals, Rhythm

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• The soul conceives, the mind creates, the body experiences. The circle is complete.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Soul

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.182, Penguin

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• Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Voice, Space, People

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.238, ReadHowYouWant.com

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• That I was born to this circle - I am blessed. That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Blessed, Proud, Parenthood

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.80, Conari Press

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• We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust...
  The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance.

  Rumi

  Stars, Dust, Middle

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• Circles create soothing space.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Space, Soothing

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.238, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Eye, Horizon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.179, Harvard University Press

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• BUILD UP YOUR CIRCLE.... A mind that perceives What can rationally be. A spirit that sees Innovative possibility. A heart that is open to Both beginnings and ends. A firm hand that fits readily To the reach of a friend.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heart, Hands, Mind

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• The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

  Black Elk

  Stars, Native American, Wind

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is a spiral. We go up, but we go in circles. Eash time around, the view gets a little bit wider.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Journey

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• Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

  Black Elk

  Moving, Native American, Childhood

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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