“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.” GrowthIgnoranceBirthIllusionCyclesDecay Author:Frederick Lenz
“The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.” WorldPainSufferingGrowthSpacePleasureConditionsThis WorldBuddhismBirthDecaySpinningPain And Pleasure Author:Frederick Lenz
“Doing work which has to be done over and over again helps us recognize the natural cycles of growth and decay, of birth and death, and thus become aware of the dynamic order of the universe. "Ordinary" work, as the root meaning of the term indicates, is work that is in harmony with the order we perceive in the natural environment.” DoneHelpingOrderUniverseGrowthTermNaturalEnvironmentBirthOrdinaryRootsHarmonyPerceiveCyclesDecayNatural EnvironmentBirth And Death Author:Fritjof Capra
“Physically, we get older and then we die. Yet spiritually, whether we go backward or forward is a matter not of the body but of consciousness. When we think about age differently, then our experience of it changes. We can be physically older but emotionally and psychologically younger. Some of us were in a state of decay in our 20s and are in a state of re-birth in our 60s or 70s. King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.” ThinkingMenFeelsYearsMatterStatesBodyAgeUsedDiesConsciousnessYouthBirthKingsSummerWinterUsed To BeDecayWisestSolomon Book:The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition Source: The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.” MomentsDiesCausesBornYouthBirthSicknessMidstDecayInherent Author:Gautama Buddha
“The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.” GrowthBirthCreaturesPassingPassingsMaturityCyclesDecayAgain And AgainLiving CreaturesFertility Author:Wendell Berry
“All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.” Has BeensBeautifulJoyGivenUnitedBehindsQualityBirthEternalFruitNobleDecayVitality Author:Egon Schiele
“Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with a noice like a wet kiss, and vanished instantly. With that instinct which prompts one, when depressed, to wallow in every circumstance of gloom, Peter leaned sadly against the hurdles and abandoned himself to a variety of shallow considerations upon (1) The vanity of human wishes; (2) Mutability; (3) First love; (4) The decay of idealism; (5) The aftermath of the Great war; (6) Birth-control; and (7) The fallacy of free-will.” FirstsHumansWarWishFeetBirthCircumstancesKissingEmptyLaysInstinctSurfaceVarietyVanityConsiderationFree WillAbandonedPeterWetDecayFirst LoveIdealismShallowGloomFallacyBirth ControlGreat WarPromptsAftermathTinHurdleBatteredMutabilitySardines Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.” SoulBodyLawChurchBirthDestructionFleshResurrectionDecayVirginsEmphasisIncarnationSuspensionVirgin Birth Author:Flannery O'Connor