"It's a small world, but we all run in big circles." Sasha Azevedo

"Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve." Oliver Wendell Holmes

"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

"The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere." Empedocles

"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

"Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction." Francis Picabia, painter and poet (1879-1953)

"To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding."Ken Wilber, Eye of Spirit

"And it all comes true Yes it all comes true
Like a wheel inside a wheel It turns on you
And you think, What have I done? What can I do?
What you believe about yourself
It all comes true
" John Cougar Mellencamp

"Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662. French mathematician, philosopher and physicist

“Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.” Margaret J. Wheatley

“One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.”Baltazar Gracian 1601-1658, Spanish Jesuit philosopher and writer

"Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein

"You have noticed that everything as Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round..... 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 nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.... Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves." Black Elk Oglala Sioux Holy Man, 1863-1950

"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us." Flora Edwards

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace." Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, and musician (Nobel 1952)

“Life is like a circle, and someday if we travel in opposite directions on the circle we will meet again.” Todd L. Bradbury

“Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, ‘I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?’” Margaret Maron (contemp.) American writer

“Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.” Barbara Sher

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Albert Einstein