Man fixes some wonderful erection of his own between himself and the wild chaos, and gradually goes bleached and stifled under his parasol. Then comes a poet, enemy of convention, and makes a slit in the umbrella; and lo! the glimpse of chaos is a vision, a window to the sun. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Tags: accomplishment man chaos Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And this is the simple truth — that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce. —Soren Kierkegaard More about this quote Tags: truth life ideas tragedy clinging chaos salvation being lost Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. —Melody Beattie More about this quote Tags: life acceptance gratitude chaos denial Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. —Theodor W. Adorno More about this quote Tags: art chaos order Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves. —Chögyam Trungpa in Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior More about this quote Tags: self-love chaos appreciation disorder Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness. —Jerry Garcia More about this quote Tags: culture weirdness chaos Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art is the triumph over chaos. —John Cheever More about this quote Tags: art chaos Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email