#chaos

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

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#freedom #life #meaning #truth #freedom

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#both #chaos #constant #controls #his

I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky. ↗

— Annette Bening

#always #beings #chaos #children #home

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#chaos #chaotic #collector #every #memories

I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#being #believe #chaos #children #come

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#god #nothingness #world