#chaos

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. ↗

— Melody Beattie

#chaos #clarity #confusion #denial #enough

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. ↗

— Otto Dix

#chaos #dreams #effort #exorcism #i

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. ↗

— Will Durant

#chaos #civilization #dies #grows #liberty

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#art #chaos #coherent #feels #important

The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#anarchy #away #break #break up #cannot

I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#dishwasher #function #i #sheets #well

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#comes #frankly #i #i think #nothing

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver. ↗

— George W. Bush

#chaos #civilization #decisive #diversion #iraq

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over? ↗

— David Byrne

#assumption #before #chaos #create #how

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? ↗

— Federico Fellini

#betrayed #chaos #confusion #democratic #does