Chaos Quotes - Page 19

• Music is structure out of Chaos

  Stephen Sondheim

  Structure, Music Is

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• Justice is restoring order, not furthering chaos.

  Peter Burke

  Order, Justice, Restoring

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• Design is important because chaos is so hard.

  Jules Feiffer

  Design, Important, Hard

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• We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism or failure. But if the single motive is the master motivation of God's calling, the answer is yes. In any and all situations, both today and tomorrow's tomorrow, God's call to us is the unchanging and ultimate whence, what, why, and whither of our lives. Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.

  Os Guinness

  Wise, Strong, Motivation

  Os Guinness (2003). “The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life”, p.170, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Not yet have I found any better method to prosper during the future financial chaos, which is likely to last many years, than to keep your net worth in shares of those corporations that have proven to have the widest profit margins and the most rapidly increasing profits. Earning power is likely to continue to be valuable, especially if diversified among many nations.

  John Templeton

  Years, Profit Margin, Corporations

  "Sir John Templeton: Financial Chaos and Investing" by Janet Tavakoli, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2010.

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• Walking around without makeup all the time! I know that you should not do, but this is what I like to do and now it's really comfortable and fun. In this chaos is really nice to have someone where you can sit on the couch and not worry about it.

  Danneel Ackles

  Fun, Nice, Makeup

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• Let the world call you lazy for not running about like a frightened ghost. Just be quiet inside yourself. Don't bother about knowing how things should be and simply begin observing without prejudice, projections or desires. Notice how life flows of its own accord. Nothing here is a chaos, but a harmony. You are already inside this flow.

  Mooji

  Running, Knowing, Lazy

  Mooji (2017). “White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji”, p.320, New Harbinger Publications

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• The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

  Terence McKenna

  Ocean, Ideas, Imagination

  Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.47, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.

  Mark Twight

  Events, May, Outcomes

  Mark Twight (2002). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”, p.47, The Mountaineers Books

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• Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing the world with eyes and heart wide open. Through writing we declare a personal identity amid faceless anonymity. We find purpose and beauty and meaning even when the rational mind argues that none of these exist. Writing therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?

  Jack Heffron

  Writing, Heart, Mean

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• As a speculator you must embrace disorder and chaos.

  Louis Bacon

  Investing, Embrace, Disorder

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• I'm chaos, I've always been chaos, my point on Earth is chaos.

  Marilyn Manson

  Earth

  FaceBook post by Marilyn Manson from Jan 06, 2015

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• I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive.

  Gregory Orr

  Spiritual, Believe, Emotional

  "The Making of Poems" by Gregory Orr, www.npr.org. February 20, 2006.

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• Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere?

  Charles D'Ambrosio

  Hurt, Hands

  Charles D'Ambrosio (2006). “The Dead Fish Museum”, p.62, Vintage

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• Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

  Louise Erdrich

  Ice, Rivers, Existence

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• Sleepwalking down the hall like a firefly in the fog.

  Ben Weaver

  Firefly, Fog, Halls

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• Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

  William Dunbar

  Fear Of Death

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• There has to be pain. That's the rule.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pain

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• I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, World, Ends

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• I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

  Franz Kafka

  Empty, Uncertain, Feels

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.

  Grace Hartigan

  Ideas, House, Bird

  "Contemporary Artists: A-K" by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, (p. 680), 2002.

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• The lives of most people are small tight pallid and sad, more to be mourned than their deaths. We starve at the banquet: We cannot see that there is a banquet because seeing the banquet requires that we see also ourselves sitting there starving-seeing ourselves clearly, even for a moment, is shattering. We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.

  David Foster Wallace

  Dream, People, Sitting

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• Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

  Virginia Woolf

  Two, Silence, Chance

  Virginia Woolf (1992). “The voyage out”, p.82, Рипол Классик

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• We can know ourselves only because we can remember.

  John Ratey

  Remember, Knows

  John J. Ratey, M.D. (2001). “A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theatres of the Brain”, p.185, Vintage

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• If I said any more it would just be a lie; you can't use words to corral something this wild.

  Ben Weaver

  Lying, Use, Said

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