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I'm glad I didn't meet you when I was younger. I wouldn’t have had the wisdom to appreciate and cherish you for the gift you are in my life.
— Steve Maraboli
Recognize and appreciate little things, and enjoy what Life has to offer
— Cesar Nikko Caharian III
I appreciate the little things in life because it adds up to everything.
— Lisa M. Cronkhite, Disconnected
We're all alive. We're all health. These are the good times.
— Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It
The beauty of art is that it comes from the heart.
— T.A. Uner
Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.
— Alice Munro, The Moons of Jupiter
The world doesn’t owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to appreciate every bit of success the world gives you.
— Taylor Swift
Quite often, when an idea that could be helpful presents itself, we do not appreciate it, for it is so inconspicuous. The expert has, perhaps, no more ideas than the inexperienced, but appreciates more what he has and uses it better.
— George Pólya, How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
If life were perfect, we would never learn anything. Thus, never appreciate life.
— Zarina Bibi
Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money...
— Peggy Noonan
It's sad to know how blind we are when it comes to appreciation. We have to lose something to gain knowledge of its worth. The best gift of life is love, the second is health. Most of us have both but will never be satisfied.
— Abraham Ruiz
It's important to appreciate the impact ofknowledge in our lives, and that of our parentsin getting us educated. However in today'sworld, if someone have not been to school, thatmeans he must have been educated.
— victor adeagbo
Never let your appreciation to make up you Rude
— Samar Sudha
There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more. ... A man sees only what concerns him.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you can’t celebrate your success, appreciate your failure. Since life is all about celebration and appreciation.
— M.F. Moonzajer
The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.
— Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
I had everything I could possibly want -- yet I was failing to appreciate it. Bogged down in petty complaints and passing crises, weary of struggling with my own nature, I too often failed to comprehend the splendor of what I had.
— Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Granddad once told me that to truly love this life, you need to know its darkest corners. But if you can bring a bit of sunshine to the sunless, it can only be for the good. I mean, what else are we really here for on this earth? Think about it some day, when the spring mornings look so golden and green.
— Gareth Thompson, Sunshine to the Sunless
He appreciated you. But he couldn't feed your soul for the rest of your life. Can't you just appreciate that he was great for you for that period of time?
— Susan E. Isaacs, Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir
Never expect appreciation for your hard work. Just continue, it will take you to the top.
— Janaki Sooriyarachchi
People who get offended by your not saying 'Thank you!' … after they’ve paid you a compliment were merely desperate to be thanked.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had come across in the Swiss mountains the summer before. When they were folded up they were grey, mothlike creatures that one might easily overlook, but directly they opened their wings they became the loveliest things in the world, all rose-colour or heavenly blue. So had she been to him in the daylight that afternoon,--an ordinary woman, not in any way noticeable; but now listen to her, opening into beauty on the wings of her voice!
— Elizabeth von Arnim, Father
Never expect appreciation for your hardwork. Make sure you are doing the right thing and just continue..
— Janaki Sooriyarachchi
All appreciations and praises are worthless unless the one you love appreciates
— Amit Abraham
At the door to the locker room Dime asks [Ennis] to autograph his ball. Ennis rears back. He's chuckling but his eyes are wary. 'Why you want that? I'm just an old equipment hand, nobody cares about my autograph.''As far as I'm concerned you run the team,' Dime answers, so Ennis laughs and takes the Sharpie and signs his name to Dime's ball, and this will be the only autograph that Dime collects today.
— Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Appreciation is a great virtue, and if husbands and wives expressed it more frequently in our homes, wives would be happier, and husbands would probably be more kind" (Gospel Ideals, p. 475).
— David O. McKay, Gospel Ideals
Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.
— Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
Sometimes we need to see the bad side, to appreciate the good side.
— Anthony Liccione
Everyone appreciates being appreciated.
— Lance Greenfield
If you want to find a reason to smile, to find a reason to be happy, learn to appreciate the beauty that surrounds you.
— Lionel Suggs
I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
True happiness that stands the taste of time comes by recognizing and appreciating what we do possess.
— Ogwo David Emenike, Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy
BlessBacks: Souvenirs for those who express their gratitude to their illuminators.
— Julie Saffrin
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
In chaos, there is fertility.
— Anaïs Nin
If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.
— Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped
Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret.
— Jonathan Carroll, White Apples
They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another.
— Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out
No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.
— Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer
He's the only stable thing in the swirling chaos.
— Beth Revis, A Million Suns
I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.
— Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark
Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos were lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armor and shouting 'All Gods are bastards.
— Terry Pratchett
We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.” -
— Terence McKenna
Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but his son's laugh was that of someone genuinely delighted by the chaos erupting all around him
— Cassandra Clare, The Midnight Heir
Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)
— Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
Our listeners asked us:"What is chaos?"We're answering:"We do not comment on economic policy.
— John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Coming out of your comfort zone is tough in the beginning, chaotic in the middle, and awesome in the end...because in the end, it shows you a whole new world !!Make an attempt..
— Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
People are, at their heart, constantly moving toward a state of entropy. Much like this ship. We’re all spiraling out of control.
— Beth Revis, A Million Suns
Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!
— W.G. Sebald, Vertigo
Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with rigidity. Our political and economic and social leaders drool about stability constantly. It's their favorite word, next to 'power.' 'Gotta stabilize the political situation in Southeast Asia, gotta stabilize oil production and consumption, gotta stabilize student opposition to the government' and so forth.Stabilization to them means order, uniformity, control. And that's a half-witted and potentially genocidal misconception. No matter how thoroughly they control a system, disorder invariably leaks into it. Then the managers panic, rush to plug the leak and endeavor to tighten the controls. Therefore, totalitarianism grows in viciousness and scope. And the blind pity is, rigidity isn't the same as stability at all. True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
— Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
One must be cold if one wishes to savor chaos.
— Ferdinand Hardekopf
The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior—benefits that extended to every area of life. It was orderly, like the universe. It had logic. It was dependable. Using it allowed a kind of moral uplift, as one's own chaos was also brought under control.'Whenever I am troubled,' said the librarian, 'I think about the Dewey decimal system.''Then what happens?' asked the junior, rather overawed.'Then I understand that trouble is just something that has been filed in the wrong place. That is what Jung was explaining of course—as the chaos of our unconscious contents strive to find their rightful place in the index of consciousness.
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
(Q: From an outsider’s perspective, what you call “chaos magick” has a lot of rules, discipline, and order involved, and doesn’t seem very chaotic at all. What would you say to such a person?)A: I differentiate sternly between Chaos and Entropy. Only highly ordered and structured systems can display complex creative and unpredictable behaviour, and then only if they have the capacity to act with a degree of freedom and randomness. Systems which lack structure and organisation usually fail to produce anything much, they just tend to drift down the entropy gradient. This applies both to people and to organisations.
— Peter J. Carroll
-and then what happened?- I asked him, but I had no desire to know. Whatever it was, it has to be ugly.
— Michael F. Moore, Quiet Chaos
Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
Equilibrium is the state of death, only chaos produces lifeThe Ancient Greeks have been driven to extinction by too much search for architectural harmony.
— Stéphane Lupasco, Le Principe D'antagonisme Et La Logique De L'e&#X301;Nergie
This, for both Schopenhauer and Tolstoy, is the central tragedy of human life; if only men would learn how little the cleverest and most gifted among them can control, how little they can know of all the multitude of factors the orderly movement of which is the history of the world; above all, what presumptuous nonsense it is to claim to perceive an order merely on the strength of believing desperately that an order must exist, when all one actually perceives is meaningless chaos –a chaos of which the heightened form, the microcosm in which the disorder of human life is reflected in an intense degree, is war.
— Isaiah Berlin, The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
Nothing novel or interesting happens unless it is on the border between order and chaos.
— R.A.Delmonico
There is a reasonthat the worldis not black and white,for chaosdemands color.
— Liz  Newman, Hope Between Heartbeats
„You know, life is just programmed chaos. Everybody starts out on one side—that’s the programmed part. But then chaos happens, and our album flips. We get fat or thin, or dye our hair and pierce our nose. But those are just our outsides. Our insides are still beautiful, even if we think we’re ugly children.
— Kirstin Cronn-Mills, Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
No order, no pattern, just chaos. Lots of little universes separated by invisible screens . . .
— Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
The birds do not sing, clouds remain of rubber, glass, steel. A stone has lodged in the engine block, the process of rusting has begun. And then darkness, a cold wind, a shred of clothing fluttering where it is snagged on one of the doors which, quite unscathed, lies flat in the grass. And then daylight, changing temperature, a night of cold rain, the short-lived presence of a scavenging rodent. And despite all this chemistry of time, nothing has disturbed the essential integrity of our tableau of chaos, the point being that if design inevitably surrenders to debris, debris inevitably reveals its innate design.
— John Hawkes, Travesty
We may not be interested in chaos but chaos is interested in us
— Abubakar Said
After months - after years - of chaos and life-threatening situations and people stabbing me for no good reason, we'd somehow managed to find a moment to breathe. That didn't just deserve to be enjoyed. It deserved to be celebrated, held up as proof that the world was a good place and didn't actually need to be destroyed in order for me to have a nap.
— Seanan McGuire, Once Broken Faith
When set out to create order, they create only misery.
— Marty Rubin
Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: The realm. Do you know what the realm is? It's the thousand blades of Aegon's enemies, a story we agree to tell each other over and over, until we forget that it's a lie.Lord Varys: But what do we have left, once we abandon the lie? Chaos? A gaping pit waiting to swallow us all.Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some, are given a chance to climb. They refuse, they cling to the realm or the gods or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Mercy has this ... this uncanny ability to go where the trouble is thickest," Adam told him. He had decided a while ago that it wasn't deliberate, and that it had something to do with being Coyote's daughter. He was pretty sure that Mercy was completely oblivious.
— Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen
In our quest for the answers of life we tend to make order out of chaos, and chaos out of order.
— Jeffrey Fry
Numbers remained consistent. Numbers and facts attempted to bring order from a chaotic world, to make sense of the impossible. They were the foundation for colossal structures and the tiniest of clockwork machines alike. Ari loved numbers, and not just because they saved her life by keeping her alert in her surroundings.
— Elise Kova, The Alchemists of Loom
Creating chaos provides excitement for some people, especially those who are uneasy with silence, those who distract themselves from their own problems by focusing outward, those who feel empty inside and need to fill themselves up with activity, and those who were raised in an environment in which harmony and peace were unknown.
— Beverly Engel, The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing
The most perplexing yet marvellous phenomena to me so far, is that connecting the dots and seeing patterns of one's life only happens backward and time only happens forward.You can't catch a pattern from the future and you can't catch time from the past. Only by the memories from the past a one tackles the complexity of the present and uncertainty of the future and while everything changes, the mechanism is always the same, and this itself is a pattern.
— Nader Ibrahim
Sam, Edilio’s a good guy,” Albert said, breaking in on Sam’s gloomy thoughts. “But like I said, he’ll tell the rest of them. Once the council knows, everyone knows. If everyone knows how desperate things are, what do you think will happen?”Sam smiled without humor. “About half the people will be great. The other half will freak.”“And people will end up getting killed,” Albert said. He cocked his head sideways, trying his best to look like the idea had just occurred to him. “And who is going to end up kicking butts? Who will end up playing Daddy and then be resented and blamed and finally told to go away?”“You’ve gained new skills,” Sam said bitterly. “You used to just be about working harder than anyone else and being ambitious. You’re learning how to manipulate people.”Albert’s mouth twitched and his eyes flashed angrily. “You’re not the only one walking around with a big load of responsibility on your shoulders, Sam. You play the big mean daddy who won’t let anyone have any fun, and I play the greedy businessman who is just looking out for himself. But don’t be stupid: maybe I am greedy, but without me no one eats. Or drinks.
— Michael  Grant, Plague
At a time like this with damage and disorder everywhere, no tale is too absurd to be believed and even decent people seek something on which to vent their anger.
— Madeleine Brent, Stranger at Wildings
I thrive in structure. I drown in chaos.
— Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody
What it takes to realize everything is fine around you?A road trip to the mountains where your soul dwells in the echoes of the winds that carry fragments of clouds with them.What it takes to realize world is going back to chaos and infinite hurry?End of the aforementioned road trip...
— Crestless Wave
Sometimes chaos is the very thing that deliberately shakes up our neatly ordered world’s in order to get us out of the neatly ordered ruts that have kept us stuck.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Now I'm a glorified bureaucrat holding on by my fingernails as we all slide into super-powered chaos. A voice of reason in a world gone mad.
— Matt Kindt, Suicide Squad, Volume 5: Walled In
In newer countries, you often find two types of public square: one that is older, organic, chaotic, and populated; and one that is recent, planned, orderly, and deserted. The first type predates the nation-state and accretes over time to accommodate the habits and needs, mainly commercial ones, of ordinary city dwellers. Its names are maidan, souq, bazaar, market. The second is constructed according to a master plan to embody the idealized qualities of the nation, often with grandiose results. The first thrusts people together in a public space, a hive if activity. Its essence is accidental and spontaneous. The second leaves nothing to chance. It tells people that they are subservient to the state and, in a sense, irrelevant to it [George Packer, "History: Influence on Humanity"].
— Catie Marron, City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World
What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them—to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else.
— Jasper Fforde, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
Chaos is peaceful when you stand quietly & watch - we are eternal observers, reflecting both tiny & vast, singing infinitely within.
— Jay Woodman
From chaos to lullabiesI watched herlive my thoughts,and soon enoughshe did becomemy favorite stony.She was everythingand with every wordshe drew me closer.She drew me into her story,a storyI knew I would neverbe able to understand.
— Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly
And gradually it dawned on him, if a dawning can take place in total blackness, that his life has consisted of a run of rehearsals for a play he had failed to take part in. And that what he needed to do from now on, if there was going to be a now on, was abandon his morbid quest for order and treat himself to a little chaos, on the grounds that while order was demonstrably no substitute for happiness, chaos might open the way to it.
— John le Carré, The Night Manager
It’s chaos out there, and chaos is what we need.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Twenty years ago, chaos theory was all the rage. I wonder what happened with that. Maybe all the excitement over it become so organized that its initial entropy failed to fall apart and disintegrate into nothingness leaving its proponents re-illusioned in certainty. I remember seeing an employee at a local book store arranging a subsection for literature about chaos among the science books. "There’s the problem." I thought. "How can there be a chaos section? Those books should be distributed randomly throughout the store... that is, if there was any real disorder to things.
— Alex Bosworth, Chip Chip Chaw!
Math is a Chaos and it doesn't have order <--- what's the purpose of it?
— Deyth Banger
Math teaches us chaos or order, for god sake?
— Deyth Banger
Indiscriminate use among unintelligent leads to chaos.
— Robert Ludlum
The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you.
— David Byrne, How Music Works
Normality; show me normality, señor caballero, and I will show you an exception to the abnormal order of the universe; show me a normal event and I shall call it miraculous because it is normal.
— Carlos Fuentes, Terra Nostra
How had it come to this? My life was in CHAOS!
— John Cameron Smith
Deep down, he knew. He knew the reason behind the chaos and, in the process of acknowledging it, he fell in love with the concept of chaos.
— Sonali Dabade, Of Knights and Lilies
That feeling. That's the real difference in a life. People who live on solid ground, underneath safe skies, know nothing of this; they are like the English POWs in Dresden who continued to pour tea and dress for dinner, even as the alarms went off, even as the city became a towering ball of fire. Born of a green and pleasant land, a temperate land, the English have a basic inability to conceive of disaster, even when it is man-made.
— Zadie Smith, White Teeth
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.
— Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.
— Niki De Saint Phalle
That small difference made all the difference.
— Johnny Rich
Outside the port, the slashed rock of the unnamed asteroid tumbled and spun in dynamics known only to the gods of chaos mathematics.
— Dan Simmonsons, The Rise of Endymion
The DFA and organizations like it have pushed and squeezed and elbowed out all the feeling in the world. They have clamped their fists around a geyser to keep it from exploding.But the pressure eventually builds, and the explosion will always come.
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
There is a fascinating chaos to life
—  but there is always a message in the mess... always.
We all fall on hard times,” he said quietly, removing his fist from my chin. “It’s just lucky for you that you fell in the right direction.
— Kristen Ashley, Ride Steady
We are punctual, a stressed, marked characteristic. We need order around us, in the house, in the life, although we live by irresistible impulses, as if the order in the closets, in our papers, in our books, in our photographs, in our souvenirs, in our clothes could preserve us from chaos in our feelings, loves, in our work. Indifference to food, sobriety; but this, we admit, is the part of the war against a threatening fragility.
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Every so often, in the midst of chaos, you come across an amazing, inexplicable instance of civic responsibility. Maybe the last shred of faith people have is in their firemen.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Hocus Pocus
What you call your lies are fiction and myths. The art of creating a disguise can be as beautiful as the creation of a painting… I created a woman for my artist life, bold, gay, courageous, generous, fearless; and another to please my father, a clear-sighted woman with a love of beauty, harmony, and self-discipline, critical and selective; and still another who lives in chaos, embraces the weak and the stumbling and the confused.
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Rico laughed a little, feeling helpless. "Is your life always this...I don't know-""Tide of chaos washing ashore on the beach of what the fuck? Yesh.
— Amy Lane, Bitter Taffy
-There must be balance. Action and reaction. Chaos and order. Death and life.
— Lanie Bross, Chaos
True peace is when you can be happy in the midst of chaos.
— Matthew Donnelly
I told you. Time moves differently for everyone; but for everyone, time runs out. Such is the way of things. To die here, at home, is enough for me.
— Lanie Bross, Chaos
a finger pointing with particular aim too far from the goal in effect points at everything.
— Lindsey Drager, The Sorrow Proper
When there is complete peace of mind when the outer world is chaotic you will truly be free.
— Matthew Donnelly
It's just that the chaos has changed shape. The giraffe and the bear have traded hats, and the bear's switched scarves with the zebra.
— Haruki Murakami
It is only in the dance between chaos and order that life progresses.
— Harrison Owen, Power of Spirit
...an age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not...
— Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd
You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it
— James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few.
— James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
Billions of years ago there were just blobs of protoplasm; now billions of years later here we are. So information has been created and stored in our structure. In the development of one person’s mind from childhood, information is clearly not just accumulated but also generated—created from connections that were not there before
— James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
the brain does not own any direct copies of stuff in the world. There is no library of forms and ideas against which to compare the images of perception. Information is stored in a plastic way, allowing fantastic juxtapositions and leaps of imagination. Some chaos exists out there, and the brain seems to have more flexibility than classical physics in finding the order in it.
— James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.
— James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help others out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom
it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will with determinism. The system is deterministic, but you can’t say what it’s going to do next.
— James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help other out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom
Mr. Thomas, any scientist will tell you that in nature many systems appear to be chaotic, but when you study them long enough and closely enough, strange order always underlies the appearance of chaos.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings. It’s abundantly obvious that one doesn’t know the world around us in detail
— James Gleick
Is it possible that mathematical pathology, i.e. chaos, is health? And that mathematical health, which is the predictability and differentiability of this kind of a structure, is disease?
— Arnold Mandel
I mean every word of my divine chaos.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things.
— James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
the pattern appears so ethereally, that it is hard to remember that the shape is an attractor. It is not just any trajectory of a dynamical system. It is the trajectory toward which all other trajectories converge.
— James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.
— James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidiness was generally considered de couleur for a prefect's room.
— Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
The boundary is where points are slowest to escape the pull of the set. It is as if they are balanced between competing attractors, one at zero and the other, in effect, ringing the set at a distance of infinity.
— James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail, and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but refuse. They cling to the realm, or love, or the gods…illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is. But they’ll never know this. Not until it’s too late.
— David Benioff
Focus on what's next, not what came before.
— Sarah Fine, Chaos
When this happens, as it is today, then, to quote Eric Hoffer, “When freedom destroys order, the yearning for order will destroy freedom.”At that point the words left or right will make no difference. They are only two roads to the same end. There is no difference between authoritarian government from the right or the left: the results are the same. An elite, an authoritarianism as such, will gradually force form on society so that it will not go on to chaos. And most people will accept it - from the desire for personal peace and affluence, from apathy, and from the yearning for order to assure the functioning of some political system, business, and the affairs of daily life. That is just what Rome did with Caesar Augustus
— Francis A. Schaeffer
Within the church, it is possible for believers to possess a profound unity based on a shared commitment to Biblical truth, an intimate knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a deep level of spiritual maturity. Paul also adds "sound doctrine" and "growing in Christlikeness" as additional benefits that result from the saints being properly equipped to build up the body of Christ."(Comments on Ephesians 4 vs 11-13)
— John F. MacArthur Jr.
The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.
— Karl Dönitz
Without a little chaos life will be dull, unbeautiful, for we have been trained not to align with simplicity for too long.
— Paul Bamikole
IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
— James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
We all need our heroes, not just in time of chaos but also in the time of peace.
— Paul Bamikole
Half the lies I tell are not true. To tell you the truth, half the true tales I tell are lies.
— Jack Thanatos, The Gods of Chaos: Netherworld
The chaos lies all within.
— V.S. Naipaul
Diversity, not uniformity, is what works.
— Daniel Quinn, Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
One simple but powerful consequence of the fractal geometry of surfaces is that surfaces in contact do not touch everywhere. The bumpiness at all scales prevents that. Even in rock under enormous pressure, at some sufficiently small scale it becomes clear that gaps remain, allowing fluid to flow.
— James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
Things put in the wrong place have found a new place.
— Marty Rubin
The fractal structure nature has devised works so efficiently that, in most tissue, no cell is ever more than three or four cells away from a blood vessel. Yet the vessels and blood take up little space, no more than about five percent of the body.
— James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
The pits and tangles are more than blemishes distorting the classic shapes of Euclidian geometry. They are often the keys to the essence of a thing
— James Gleick
Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.
— James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
Codependency is a learned set of behaviors, thought processes, and habits. When combined together, they fit a very loose definition. All people exhibit these traits to some degree, but some of us allow them to dictate our relationships with others and ourselves.
— David W. Earle
Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance.
— David W. Earle
Boundary violations are deeply experienced.
— David W. Earle
Some people know of no other way to interface with others except through their created chaos.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
At the fringe edge of advancement it's a war of anarchy and chaos.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.
— Mark Twight, Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber
With improved coping skills forged through my midlife crisis, I now listen first and do not control, and I allow these now adult children to come to their own conclusions about what they want for their lives.
— David W. Earle
I was born into chaos. I didn’t know what peace felt like.
— Shannon A. Thompson, Seconds Before Sunrise
Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space.
— William Alexander, Goblin Secrets
The reason I love rules and plans and religions is that people feel safe in them for a while. And, personally, I don't have any rules. I don't need them. There's a sense of order that goes on all the time as things move and change, and I am that harmony, and so are you. Not knowing is the only way to understand... Meanings, rules, the whole world of right and wrong, are secondary at best. I understand how some people think they need to live by rules...It's very frightening for them to watch the world unfolding in apparent chaos and not realize that the chaos itself is God in his infinite intelligence.
— Byron Katie, A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are
Here's to those who love the quiet, but thrive in chaos.
— Verscon
Has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you're not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized do you follow that? In other words this leads you to assume that organization is an inherent property of the knowledge itself, and that disorder and chaos are simply irrelevant forces that threaten it from the outside. In fact it's exactly the opposite. Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos...
— William Gaddis, JR
We think we can plan our lives," he muttered. "We think we can model reality. But chaos is an intrusive, inconsiderate bitch.
— Linda Nagata, The Bohr Maker
I wish I could stop time and keep you out of danger.She turned and placed a kiss on the palm of his hand.Without the danger, we never would have met.
— Lisa Kessler, Night Child
Sometimes a butterfly flaps its wings and the weather turns out fine.
— Johnny Rich, The Human Script
I drag my world where I belong...Lost in the oubliette of conscious I hide from the murkiest of shadowsGenerate hope amidst fear And dewdrops amidst rain My tears don’t carry the burden of pain By taking the draperies of fate along In desire of meeting my beloved in chaos I drag my world where I belong...
— Annie Ali
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
— M.C. Escher
War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.
— Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman
The only way to control chaos and complexity is to give up some of that control
— Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent
Chords reel and the mind reels, and for all I know The minds of the Gods reel as well -- "For if the Gods have minds They must be attuned to music and to harmony. Harmony is but the pulse of Chaos And to such pulsation Even stones resound. 
— Tobeimean Peter
Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.
— Joseph O'Neill, Netherland
He felt a deep urge to put some order in this chaos. Leaning against a large standing-stone by the wayside, he drew out his dreambook and began to write.
— Alan McCluskey, The Reaches
There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.
— Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls
Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.
— Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.
— Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Ragnor [was] always happy to see chaos, but not be involved in it.
— Cassandra Clare, The Midnight Heir
But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.
— Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable.
— Debra Moffitt, Garden of Bliss: Cultivating the Inner Landscape for Self-Discovery
Painted faces laughed. It was like a mad carnival where everyone was oblivious, lost in the bliss of chaos, a throng unaware of a bomb planted beneath thefloorboards.
— Kelly Creagh, Nevermore
He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order.
— Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements has been brought to order--that windows, doors and other details have been knitted into a scheme that manages to be at once regular and intricate. (p184)
— Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
I thought if I followed the rules, things would turn out all right. that's the thing about the cure, isn't it? It isn't just about deliria at all. It's about order. A path for everyone. You just have to follow it and everything will be okay. That's what the DFA is about. That's what I belevied in-what I've had to believe in. Because otherwise, it's just...chaos.
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
May feel like you're fallin', Tabby, but remember, I'm at the bottom ready to catch you."At these beautiful words, I burst into tears again.Without hesitation, Shy yanked me back into his arms and held me.There it was.I'd reached bottom and I was crying , because I didn't realize it at the time, but he'd already caught me.And it felt beautiful!
— Kristen Ashley, Own the Wind
Why do we live out every day as if there is no hope to overcome our chaos and no possibility for living a stressed-less life when Scripture repeatedly reassures us that God has the power and the peace to make that happen?
— Tracie Miles, Stressed-Less Living: Finding God's Peace in Your Chaotic World
Every man is born to the world of chaos and all his life passes with struggle to create an order!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
But isn't it enough that I just don't want it?""No," said Fiona. "It isn't enough.""Why not?""Well, if that was enough, if just saying no and not giving a reason was enough, where would we be? It would just be chaos.
— Ken MacLeod, Intrusion
May feel like you're falling', Tabby, but remember, I'm at the bottom ready to catch you.
— Kristen Ashley, Own the Wind
What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.
— Osho, Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega Volume 10
She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there.
— Anaïs Nin
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.
— James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Think about Isis,” Jaz repeated. “And Sadie…thereis a purpose. You taught us that. We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about. That's why its name, its ren, has endured for millennia. Don't despair. Otherwise Chaos wins.
— Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire
Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.
— Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos,' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.
— David Hewson, Macbeth
Artists are agents of chaos. It is the artistsjob to encourage entropy, to promote chaos. Idols must be killed, icons crushed, beliefsshattered. It is the artists job to encourage legitimate, unadulterated, raw thought andemotion. Art that does nothing new, that simply fills an established role, is not art.It is a product. A stale, stagnant product of a disgustingly mundane process that has beendone so much it is assumed mandatory. Little different than feces. The last thing the world needs is to get shittier.
— Jonathan Culver
design is so important because chaos is so hard
— Jules Feiffer
Chaos is complexity viewed through a reductionist filter.
— Silvia Hartmann
the hinder portion scalding-house good eating Curve B in addition to the usual baths and ablutions military police sumptuousness of the washhouse risking misstatements kept distances iris to iris queen of holes damp, hairy legs note of anger chanting and shouting konk sense of "mold" on the "muff" sense of "talk" on the "surface" konk2 all sorts of chemical girl who delivered the letter give it a bone plummy bare legs saturated in every belief and ignorance rational living private client bad bosom uncertain workmen mutton-tugger obedience to the rules of the logical system Lord Muck hot tears harmonica rascalthat's chaos can you produce chaos? Alice asked certainly I can produce chaos I said I produced chaos she regarded the chaos chaos is handsome and attractive she said and more durable than regret I said and more nourishing than regret she said
— Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories
Isn't it funny how true peace describes war and chaos?
— Lionel Suggs
The neighbor's flock has taken advantage of the chaos, and I think that's pretty smart.
— Jeanne Marie Laskas, Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm
I want us to enter into the laughter of the God that is before, during and after the experience of being human, to swim in grace, to revel in messiness, to find joy in the suffering and love in the chaos.
— Tobin Wilson
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
— James     Baldwin
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
— Edward Abbey
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
— Ronald Reagan
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
— Mark Twain
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious
— Oscar Wilde
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
— H.L. Mencken
My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Defendant
Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.
— Emma Goldman
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
— Samuel Johnson
People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one
— Banksy, Wall and Piece
In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the Pe
— Eugene V. Debs, Voices of a People's History of the United States
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
— Bertrand Russell
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.
— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor . . .? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti