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• I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Change, Nature, Garden

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• Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Movement, Life Is

  Elbert Hubbard “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Complete 14 Volumes”, Library of Alexandria

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• We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Climate, Breaking Silence, Today

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding

  Cheryl Strayed

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.247, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Law, World, Physics

  "Memorabilia Mathematica". Book by Robert Edouard Moritz, 1914.

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• Whether of not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

  Max Ehrmann

  Adoption, Doubt, Should

  "Desiderata" (1927)

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• Lord, help me to live this day, quietly, easily. To lean upon Thy great strength, trustfully, restfully. To wait for the unfolding of Thy will, patiently, serenely. To meet others, peacefully, joyously. To face tomorrow, confidently, courageously.

  Francis of Assisi

  Waiting, Faces, Helping

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• Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.

  Philip Gerard

  Art, Writing, Pieces

  Philip Gerard (2000). “Writing a Book That Makes a Difference”, Story Press

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• Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

  Amit Ray

  Art, Inspiration, Meditation Practice

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.93, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.

  Elizabeth George

  New Day, Promise, Deliverance

  Jim George, Elizabeth George (2012). “A Couple After God's Own Heart”, p.28, Harvest House Publishers

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• But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.

  Carre Otis

  Beautiful, Karma, Curves

  "Flexibility, Inside and Out headshot" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Power, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.52, Open Road Media

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• The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Our World, Years

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

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  Ram Dass

  Rip, Butterfly, Done

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• Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Trust, Choices

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.148

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• If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Tasks, Arbitrary

  Maria Montessori, Gerald Lee Gutek (2004). “The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method”, p.114, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.

  Yves Tanguy

  Eye, Giving, Progress

  Yves Tanguy (1974). “Yves Tanguy: Catalog of an Exhibition November 7-December 7, 1974”

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• Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Physics, Witness, Universe

  Daniel H. Wilson (2014). “Robogenesis: A Novel”, p.333, Vintage

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• The unfolding of the unexpected becomes the energy that drives you. You discover how thirsty you are for exploration without analysis. You become strangely at home in a place you can't define. You are truly creating.

  Michele Cassou

  Home, Creating, Energy

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• For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence--an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered--'In the beginning God.'

  Arthur Compton

  Men, Majestic, Realization

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• Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Diversity, Fundamentals, Dialogue

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• For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . .

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Character, Self

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.162, Booklassic

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• By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Drama, Player, House

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• Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfolding of all that exalts and adorns man.

  Mark Hopkins

  Men, Inspire, Progress

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• Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere, at any time. What appears to be wrong is simply your own false imagination. That's all.

  Robert Adams

  Mistake, Heart, Imagination

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