Here are some collected quotes. Here's one of mine to get us started:
Chaos
The only thing that is consistently predictable in the universe is the consistent persistence of chaos…And in that, we behold the emergence of divine order at a magnitude that stretches our minds …
Beyond their capacity. – Tom Sims
"Grace and healing are communicated through the vulnerability of men and women who have been fractured and heartbroken by life." – Brennan Manning, Abba's Child
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." – Scott Adams
"You can observe a lot by watching. " – Yogi Berra
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." – Mark Twain
"How will I know what I think
until I see what I write?"
– Lewis Carroll
"Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, 'Why me?' Then a voice answers, 'Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.'" -Charlie Brown in Peanuts, by Charles Schultz
"Give more than is asked. Serve more than appears necessary. Help more than is expected. And Love more than is the norm." – Cory Booker
"Prophets do not come from cities, promising riches and store clothes. They have always come from the wilderness, stinking of goats and running with lice and telling of a different sort of treasure." – Andrew Lytle,
"Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Willingness implies a surrendering of one’s self-separateness, an entering into, an immersion in the deepest processes of life itself. It is a realization that one already is a part of some ultimate cosmic process and it is a commitment to participation in that process. In contrast, willfulness is the setting of oneself apart from the fundamental essence of life in an attempt to master, direct, control, or otherwise manipulate existence. More simply, willingness is saying yes to the mystery of being alive in each moment. Willfulness is saying no, or perhaps more commonly, ‘yes, but…’"
"But willingness and willfulness do not apply to specific things or situations. They reflect instead the underlying attitude one has toward the wonder of life itself. Willingness notices this wonder and bows in some kind of reverence to it. Willfulness forgets it, ignores it, or at its worse, actively tries to destroy it. Thus willingness can sometimes seem very active and assertive, even aggressive. And willfulness can appear in the guise of passivity. Political revolution is a good example." — Gerald May
"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." – Abraham Lincoln
"The best vision is insight." – Malcolm S. Forbes
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it." -Theodore Roosevelt
"We live in a busy world but there's a difference between empty fatigue and gratifying tiredness. Invest in the things you deeply care about." – Eugene Cho
"When you forgive, you in no way change the past–but you sure do change the future." -Bernard Meltzer
" … all true believers proclaim compassion, not competition, as God's way." Henri J. M. Nouwen
Another of mine to close:
"What you believe about a circumstance colors that reality and creates a filter through which you respond. It determines whether you will use an obstacle at an opportunity of a stumbling block. What you believe is vitally important to becoming who you are." – Tom Sims
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