“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God)
“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
— Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)
“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”
— Voltaire
“Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don’t just survive. Celebrate.”
— Charles Frazier (Nightwoods)
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
— Albert Schweitzer
