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The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay. -- Swami Vivekananda
Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all of which are necessary to the whole. Spring and winter, growth and decay, creativity and fallowness, health and sickness, power and impotence, and life and death all belong within the economy of being. -- Sam Keen
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. -- Henry Miller
Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy. -- Pankaj Mishra
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. -- Wendell Berry
Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth. -- Mitch Albom
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay. -- Tacitus
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. -- Walter Savage Landor
Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age. -- Mason Cooley
And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing towards decay. -- George MacDonald
Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls. -- Anne Rice
The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth. -- Henry David Thoreau
Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last. -- Isaac Rosenberg
Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work. -- Andy Goldsworthy
The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth. -- James Russell Lowell

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