Chaos Quotes

• In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Business, War

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• Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

  Henry Adams

  Dream, Nature, Men

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.550, BookRix

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• All great changes are preceded by chaos.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Change, Life Changing

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• In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

  Carl Jung

  Thoughtful, Order, Secret Love

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.32, Princeton University Press

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• Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.

  Tom Barrett

  Creativity, Opportunity, Organization

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• Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

  Charles Addams

  Spiders, Normalcy, Illusion

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  In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Happiness, Spiritual, Encouragement

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 14, 2011

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• Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a thing that is birthed from the void. And it was about that which is possible, not about disorder.

  Jok Church

  Mean, Greek, Doe

  "Comics: Meet the Artist". Interview with Suzanne Tobin, www.washingtonpost.com. June 30, 2006.

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  Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

  Melody Beattie

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• We live in a rainbow of chaos.

  Paul Cezanne

  Love, Dream, Rainbow

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• Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply.

  Stephen Hawking

  Left Alone, Left

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• It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.

  Orson Scott Card

  What If, Turmoil, Ifs

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Shadow Quintet”, p.528, Macmillan

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• Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Being Yourself, Chaos In The World, Rejecting

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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  Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

  Homer

  Beautiful, Rage From The Iliad, Achilles

  "Troy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Dance, Courage

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

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• Within chaos lies opportunity.

  P. C. Cast

  Lying, Opportunity

  P. C. Cast, Kim Doner (2014). “The Fledgling Handbook 101”, p.10, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I am a cage, in search of a bird.

  Franz Kafka

  Bird, Novelists, Cages

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• What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Patterns, Havens, Decipher

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Art, Order, Racist

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 05, 2005.

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• Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

  Hermann Hesse

  Order, Demand

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• Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

  Henry Miller

  Reality, Order And Chaos, Score

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• Chaos is a friend of mine.

  Bob Dylan

  Mines

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

  Lorna Luft

  Scary, Frightening, Exhausting

  "How to Find the Gifts in Chaos" by Matthew B. James, Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2015.

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• Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.

  George R. R. Martin

  Real, Fall, Trying

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• They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Nightmare, Wordplay

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