Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.

Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits.

Diversity, not uniformity, is what works.

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.

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.

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

This place is Hell’s waiting room.

‘Eighth one this week,’ he said.

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

I am suspended in the moment. Flickering images faded with age, frozen thoughts hovering precariously in dead space, a whirlwind of memories that slice through my soul.

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.

Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.

I’m beginning to think that to hope isn’t the same as to expect something. To hope is to believe that life is an acceptable chaos.(h.5)

I had hoped that the rest of the world would stand still while I got myself together again, but Chaos and Tragedy had marched into other lives close to mine as well.

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.

Life’s been one tough little shit, but there’s a very obvious reason why she hasn’t let me get too comfy, settle too long or sink too deep. She knows she has to kick me in...

It was said in the old days that every year Thor made a circle around Middle-earth, beating back the enemies of order. Thor got older every year, and the circle occupied by gods and men...

This guy was a humorless bag of nothing but.

The only order in the universe is just a cycle of calm and chaos.

A time is envisioned when the world was not, only a watery chaos (the dark, indistinguishable sea ) and a warm cosmic breath, which could give an impetus of life.

The security situation is very serious. Chaos, murders, crime and gun-carrying continue.

Eve: All this riot and uproar, V… is this Anarchy? Is this the Land of Do-As-You-Please? V: No. This is only the land of take-what-you-want. Anarchy means “without leaders”, not “without order”. With anarchy comes...

Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: ‘I must stop him before he stops me.’ In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.

I wear the universe backwards. I imagine putting stars in my coffee, and sugar in the sky. I imagine going fishing in clouds, and watching the sun hide behind lakes. I’m too busy dancing with...

Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy

The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: ‘Swine! Swine! Swine!’, and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen.

You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

We think we can plan our lives,” he muttered. “We think we can model reality. But chaos is an intrusive, inconsiderate bitch.

Life is a cracked surface at best. Fiction is a nice edifice. / every word/sentence/paragraph gives a writer an opportunity to reinforce or deliberately crack the edifice by screwing with meaning, structure, grammar, the fourth...

Our listeners asked us:”What is chaos?”We’re answering:”We do not comment on economic policy.

Nature” doesn’t really have intentions, per se. Nature is a drunk waking up from a weekend bender, ambling through a messy kitchen in a pair of mismatched slippers, seeing its car in the neighbor’s pool...

Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.

A little manic was okay. A little manic paid the bills and got him up in the morning, made him magic when he needed it most.

Stop blaming outside circumstances for your inside chaos.

In the black chaos where the seas and the skies become confused let the projectors blow their white trumpets of silence(“Roundness”)

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

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...

A tour bus, a rock band and the clothes on my back. It’s real heart-breaking to see the place that you grew up, the place that you’ve identified with all your life going through such...

Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.

Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind.

A culture capable of imagining complexly is a humble culture. It acts, when it has to act, as late in the game as possibl, and as cautiously, because it knows its girth and the tight...

The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.

They cannot hurt you; their active participation, the enthusiasm in their willingness to try, proves their natural affinity and disposition to ruin, chaos, and sabotage.Some do not learn you to earn you, they learn you...

It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, becoming, death, and ressurection; the waters, plants, woman, fecundity, and immortality; the cosmic darkness, prenatal existence, and life after...

I told you from the very beginning that it was a story about choices – wise choices, foolish choices, small yet momentous choices – for with choices come change, and with change comes opportunity ,...

There’s no better way for a woman to punish a man than to make him sleep away from her.

I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?