Chaos Quotes

• Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply.

  Stephen Hawking

  Left Alone, Left

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• What we have done over the last 40 or 50 years is systematically attacked and weakened the parties, the political machines, the professionals, and insiders, and hacks, and all the tools that they use to get politicians to play well together. And with those gone, you get chaos.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Party, Years, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

  Terence McKenna

  Best Laid Plans, Roving, Able

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• Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

  Cullen Hightower

  Inspirational, Discipline, Tyranny

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• And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

  Charles Bukowski

  Useless, Forget, Failing

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• The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Character, Creative

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• Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Opposites, Organized

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• I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

  Werner Herzog

  Believe, Directors, Common

  "Grizzly Man", 2006.

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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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• I don't think there is such a thing as as a real prophet. You can never predict the future. We know why now, of course; chaos theory, which I got very interested in, shows you can never predict the future.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Real, Thinking, Prophet

  Source: www.salon.com

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

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Business, War

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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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• Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean by pressing upon the waves. Sanity lies in somehow opening to the chaos, allowing anxiety, moving deeply into the tumult, diving into the waves, where underneath, within, peace simply is.

  Gerald May

  Peace, Lying, Ocean

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• Write hard and clear about what hurts.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Hurt, Writing, Clear

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• Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

  George Orwell

  Political Language, Decay, Improvement

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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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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• When tempest tossed, embrace chaos

  Dean Koontz

  Literature, Tempest, Embrace

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• We live in a rainbow of chaos.

  Paul Cezanne

  Love, Dream, Rainbow

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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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• To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Inspirational, Mean, Caring

  Jill Bolte Taylor (2008). “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey”, p.168, Penguin

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