For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it b...
The healing process is best described as a spiral. Survivors go through the stages once, sometimes many times; sometimes in one order, sometimes in another. Each time they hit a stage again, they move up the spiral: they can integrate new information...
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature...
The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.
When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.
I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of relig...
Depression is easy to wallow in and hard to fight against, but if you just give in to it completely it's a downward spiral. You skip going to class because you're feeling depressed, then you stay in the rest of the day because you've already missed o...
We have time. Fear tangled into her clothes, cinched the shirt, spiraled into the veins.
Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.
When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is "really" there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond ...
A turmoil of winds rushed around him, spiraling up in to the air: he was thinking.
I don’t enjoy surprises that compel me to renegotiate my relationship with the past.
The gilded spiral Of longings within. Our very own cathedral That points persistently to heaven.
To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.
I started in the psychological thriller side of feature filmmaking with 'Spiral,' which was the first one that I wrote and directed and played the lead in.
Stop trying to be a magician. The past won’t come back. It likes its safety in memory.
