Systole Quotes

When I contemplate the green serenity of the fields or look into the depths of clear eyes through which shines a fellow-soul, my consciousness dilates, I feel the diastole of the soul and am bathed in the flood of the life that flows about me, and I believe in my future; but instantly the voice of mystery whispers to me, "Thou shalt cease to be!" the angel of Death touches me with his wing, and the systole of the soul floods the depth of my spirit with the blood of divinity. (Miguel de Unamuno)
Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature in darkness and light in heat and cold in the ebb and flow of water in male and female in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body in the systole an. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
it will never be outmoded as long as the systole and diastole of human life survives, and men fluctuate between progress and reaction, growth and decline, hope and illusion. View quote
Robert Gordis