Chaos Quotes - Page 38

• It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.

  George Washington

  Causes, Natural, Allegiance

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• What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.

  Katherine Paterson

  Order, Grace, Able

  Katherine Paterson (1981). “Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• Everyday life surrounds us in a swirling chaos, and it's easy to fall into the grip of our ego's fears and confusion. Remind yourself each day of your intentions and spiritual purpose. Meditate, find your center, look closely at yourself, and don't let go of your intention until it feels centered inside yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Fall

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• Music is structure out of Chaos

  Stephen Sondheim

  Structure, Music Is

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• The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is 'left' and what is 'right'? Why should Hitler be 'right' and Stalin, his temporary friend, be 'left'? Who is 'reactionary' and who is 'progressive'? Reaction against an unwise policy is not to be condemned. And progress towards chaos is not to be commended.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Stupid, Political Language, Progress

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• There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Dream, War, Fighting

  "Fictional character: Citizen G'Kar". TV Series "Babylon 5" ("Z'ha'dum", 1996), www.imdb.com. (1994–1998).

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• Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos.

  Paulo Coelho

  Discipline, Dependent, Exclusive

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• And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I’m going to go hide in the garage.'

  Anne Lamott

  Hate, Believe, People

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• One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Art, Order, Important

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• For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.

  Tim Winton

  Nature, Sea, Relief

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• The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Men, Order, World

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• Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.

  Vernon Howard

  Self, Awakening, Scene

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• The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Hands, Grace, Scare

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• Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something beautiful and meaningful. Decay. Death. Pain. Fall. And if God is a songwriter then these fallen leaves of mine can be redeemed

  Jon Foreman

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Song

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• Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In the Newtonian and print created space that we are walking around in you, are like a self extracting archive, that hasn't self extracted itself yet.

  Terence McKenna

  Self, Space, Mind

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• The moment you come to trust chaos, you see God clearly. Chaos is divine order, versus human order. Change is divine order, versus human order. When the chaos becomes safety to you, then you know you're seeing God clearly.

  Caroline Myss

  Divine Order, Safety, Moments

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• At some time in the history of the universe, there were no human minds, and at some time later, there were. Within the blink of a cosmic eye, a universe in which all was chaos and void came to include hunches, beliefs, sentiments, raw sensations, pains, emotions, wishes, ideas, images, inferences, the feel of rubber, Schadenfreude, and the taste of banana ice cream.

  David Berlinski

  Pain, Eye, Ideas

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• We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

  Julianne Moore

  Order, Narrative

  "Julianne Moore Believes in Therapy, Not God (And Definitely Gun Control)" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 28, 2015.

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• A Course in Miracles tells us that although 'we think that without the ego, all would be chaos, the opposite is true. Without the ego, all would be love.'

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Opposites, Miracle

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• After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

  Terry Pratchett

  Music, Two, Voice

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• God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Running, Made, Providence

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.14, Advaita Ashrama

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• I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance

  Iris van Herpen

  Beauty, Nature, Power

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• My New Years Resolution is to find the calm in the chaos. Practicing yoga is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. It's where you connect mind, body and spirit.

  Donna Karan

  New Year, Yoga, Years

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• Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the ‘fight with fire’ method...is bitterness and chaos, the aftermath of the love method is reconciliation and creation of the beloved community...Yes , love-which means understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill, even for one’s enemies-is the solution

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Mean, Fighting

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• Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts, they paint watercolors of perception.

  Diane Ackerman

  Ideas, Focus, Perception

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.127, Vintage

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