Unraveling Quotes

• Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be.
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  Joni Mitchell

  Jealousy, Greed, Joy

  Song: All I Want

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• When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

  Douglas Coupland

  Miracle, Cartoon, Would Be

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• Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Humor, Pride

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• People may call what happens at midlife 'a crisis,' but it's not. It's an unraveling - a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're 'supposed' to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Letting Go, Live Life

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Real, Home, Self

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• We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.

  Diane Ackerman

  Fabric, Intimate, Creatures

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• Unraveling the web of Penelope.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Work

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• Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.

  Brené Brown

  Letting Go, Thinking, Midlife

  Brené Brown (2011). “불완전함의 선물”, Cheongha/ Tsai Fong Books

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• It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.

  Dani Shapiro

  Dream, Thinking, Trying

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.88, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

  Jean Cocteau

  Ties, Handwriting, Poet

  Quoted by Pierre Chanel in "A Thousand Flashes of Genius", "Jean Cocteau and the French Scene". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1984.

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• Now my tapestry's unraveling.

  Carole King

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: Tapestry, Album: Tapestry, 1971

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• Design the life you want to live.

  Rachel Roy

  Inspirational, Positive, Design

  "Fashion Designer Rachel Roy". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 22, 2016.

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• We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy.

  Saul Williams

  Heart, Moon, Darkness

  Saul Williams (2006). “The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• When your fight has purpose - to free you from something, to interfere on the behalf of an innocent - it has a hope of finality. When the fight is about unraveling - when it is about your name, the places to which your blood is anchored, the attachment of your name to some landmark or event - there is nothing but hate, and the long, slow progression of people who feed on it and are fed it, meticulously, by the ones who come before them. Then the fight is endless, and comes in waves and waves, but always retains its capacity to surprise those who hope against it.

  Tea Obreht

  Hate, Fighting, Attachment

  "The Tiger's Wife". Book by Tea Obreht, 2009.

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• There is an unraveling, a great unraveling that I believe is occurring. Not without its pain, not without its frustration. Perhaps the fundamentalism we see within America right now is in response to these changes. We fear change, and so we cling to what is known.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Pain, Believe, Frustration

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• Your action has nothing to do with your abundance! Your abundance is a response to your vibration. Of course, your belief is part of your vibration. So if you believe that action is part of what brings your abundance, then you've got to unravel that.

  Esther Hicks

  Believe, Vibrations, Belief

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• The needle rocked awkwardly and at the end of her beginning rows, Isabel held up her work to show Esperanza. "Mine is all crooked!" Esperanza smiled and reached over and gently pulled the yarn, unraveling the uneven stitches. Then she looked into Isabel's trusting eyes and said, "Do not ever be afraid to start over.

  Pam Muñoz Ryan

  Eye, Yarn, Starting Over

  Pam Muñoz Ryan (2012). “Esperanza Rising”, p.164, Scholastic Inc.

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• Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we have succeeded in unraveling fully the natural laws which govern reality, we find them to be expressible by mathematical relations of surprising simplicity and architectonic perfection. It seems to me to be one of the chief objects of mathematical instruction to develop the faculty of perceiving this simplicity and harmony.

  Hermann Weyl

  Beauty, Art, Reality

  Hermann Weyl (1950). “Space, Time, Matter”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Too easy to lose the way. Too hard to keep from unraveling when there’s nothing to remind you of who you are and where you should be. Another eternity passes in the flick of an eyelash.

  Diana Rowland

  Eyelashes, Way, Eternity

  Diana Rowland (2009). “Mark of the Demon”, p.362, Bantam

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• The final act of an unraveling society isn't immoral behavior; it's canonizing immoral behavior as a 'new normal' and celebrating it as a 'moral victory.'

  Jeff Iorg

  New Normal, Victory, Finals

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• What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind

  Byron Katie

  Perfect, Mind, States

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2015

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• The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced it not because they championed 'democracy' or the individual, but because they knew it would be one of several important mechanisms for empowering the federal government and unraveling constitutional republicanism.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Empowering, Important

  Mark R. Levin (2013). “The Liberty Amendments”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• You can remember it if you want by unraveling the double helix of inner knowing.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Knowing, Want, Remember

  Cherie Carter Scott (2004). “If Life Is a Game...These Are The Stories: Trur Stories by Real People Around the World About Being Human”, p.219, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

  Max Black

  Understanding, Metaphor, Riddle

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• I am convinced by the events of the last few weeks that nefarious forces of people--unidentified but no less real--are threatening life as we know it, and in fact, may be bent on unraveling the very fabric of our existence.

  Christopher Moore

  Real, People, Events

  Christopher Moore (2009). “A Dirty Job: A Novel”, p.29, Harper Collins

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