Hierocles Circle Quotes & Sayings

Through the last days of May and the early days of June, Eleanor — Doris Kearns Goodwin

That's how life is; we grow, we learn, and sometimes we change. And in every man, there is hope. — Kathryn Le Veque

Smile to be a flower of joy. — Debasish Mridha

Having a bunch of friends who are rats can actually be a good thing. That's the one fact that I can take to the bank, literally. — Michael Houbrick

No arbitrary regulation, no act of the legislature, can add anything to the capital of the country; it can only force it into artificial channels. — John Ramsay McCulloch

We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing. — Solomon Burke

In everyone's life, there is great need for an anam cara, a soul friend. In this love, you are understood as you are without mask or pretension. The superficial and functional lies and half-truths of social acquaintance fall away, you can be as you really are. Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person's soul. This recognition is described in a beautiful line from Pablo Neruda: "You are like nobody since I love you." This art of love discloses the special and sacred identity of the other person. Love is the only light that can truly read the secret signature of the other person's individuality and soul. Love alone is literate in the world of origin; it an decipher identity and destiny. — John O'Donohue

If anyone controls your feelings, emotions, and thoughts - she or he controls you. Even if you are longing for love, think of yourself with love. — Debasish Mridha

Perhaps the most important Stoic legacy to the history of moral thought was the concept of universal humanity. In his famous Elements of Ethics, the second-century Stoic philosopher Hierocles imagines every individual as standing at the centre of a series of concentric circles. The first circle is the individual, next comes the immediate family, followed by the extended family, the local community, the country, and finally the entire human race. To be virtuous, Hierocles suggested, is to draw these circles together, constantly to transfer people from the outer circles to the inner circles, to treat strangers as cousins and cousins as brothers and sisters, making all human beings part of our concern. The Stoics called this process of drawing the circles together oikeiosis, a word that is almost untranslatable but means something like the process by which everything is made into your home. — Kenan Malik