Rearranging Quotes

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  A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

  William James

  Motivational, Inspiring, Attitude

  "American Treasury, 1455 - 1955". Book by Clifton Fadimany, 1455 - 1955, 1955.

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• You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Wisdom, Peace

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.52, New World Library

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• We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Moving, Pigs

  Max Lucado (2012). “Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• We learn by rearranging what we know.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Knows

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• Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.

  Anthea Turner

  Differences, Furniture, Tweak

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• What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

  Lisa Alther

  Inspirational, Rooms, Furniture

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.260, Open Road Media

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• I learn something all the time - rearranging what I thought I knew before.

  Regina Taylor

  "Golden Globe and NAACP Image Award winner Regina Taylor: Living a creative life". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.

  Anne Lamott

  Courage, Inspirational Life, Doors

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.198, Anchor

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• I explain to everyone I deal with-co-workers, children, friends-that I'm transitionally challenged and they should call me on my cell phone if I'm even a few minutes late. Such calls often come in when I'm happily writing or rearranging the furniture. The monochrones in my life are so organized, they have no trouble remembering to remind me to show up.

  Martha Beck

  Children, Writing, Phones

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• Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known.

  Viola Spolin

  Clever, Creativity, Known

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• Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

  Don Van Vliet

  Art, Mistake, Art Is

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• Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're not just about redistributing the goods. They're about figuring out what is good.

  Marshall Ganz

  Change, Meaningful, Political

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• The key to life was rearranging the furniture.

  Robert Ferro

  Keys, Furniture

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• Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

  Truman Capote

  Music, Writing, Law

  1974 Interview in Paris Review, Summer.

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• So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

  Isaac Asimov

  Change, Believe, Thinking

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• There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

  Orson Scott Card

  Inspirational, World, Enders Game

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.90, Macmillan

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• Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Song, Writing, Finishing

  Source: voidau.com

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• You say, 'The country is messed up.' That's like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you've got. Don't curse all you've got. When you get your own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal. This one you've got to take like it comes.

  Jim Rohn

  Country, Rain, Sunshine

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 03, 2013

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• The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.

  James Gleick

  Reading, Past, Mirrors

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• For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

  Luther Burbank

  Thinking, Prejudice, Thoughts And Thinking

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• I'm always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I'm rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting up new ones, and buying new pieces of art.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Art, Pieces, Buying

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, Seductive, Political

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• Initiate giving. Don't wait for someone to ask. See what happens - especially to you. You may find that you gain a greater clarity about yourself and about your relationships, as well as more energy rather than less. You may find that, rather than exhausting yourself or your resources, you will replenish them. Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient . . . only the universe rearranging itself.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Generosity, Giving, Waiting

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.

  Rick Bragg

  Dream, Book, Years

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• Cursed?" I offered, my voice croaky because of my unshed tears. "It isn't cursed." John said deliberately, rearranging the chain around my neck, "if you're wearing it. It's blessed.

  Meg Cabot

  Blessed, Voice, Tears

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