#chaos

He's the only stable thing in the swirling chaos. ↗

— Beth Revis

#stable #chaos

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant decipher. What we can’t understand we call nonsense. What we can’t read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid. ↗

— Robert Jordan

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If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

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Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come. ↗

— Gilles Deleuze

#organized-chaos #power-of-words #writing #chaos

Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents. ↗

— Gayle Forman

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Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#chaos #cosmos #identity #personality #stories

But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#chaos #cosmos #faith #life #peace

The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can’t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it’s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#choices #free-will #future #god #life

We live in a rainbow of chaos. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#live #rainbow