#circle

In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#condition #cured #deemed #depression #often

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists. ↗

— Andres Segovia

#circle #composers #guitar #guitarists #i

In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home. ↗

— Barbara Hurd

#circle #dream #iris #magic #meditation

[I]t is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, will find in her travels all the Londons she has ever met in the pages of books, one atop the other, like the strata of the Earth. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#cities #city-life #fictional-london #history #life

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#marriage #marriage

I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back. ↗

— James Richardson

#work #money

Fashion goes round in circles. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#fashion #goes #round

It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#faces #federal #federal reserve #lot #many

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#acquaintances #after #back #circle #experiences

How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles! ↗

— John Mason Brown

#circles #city #goes #how #laid