Amy Tan Quotes

We're dealing with the chaos of life, and we're rubbing it down. The deeper you rub, the more patterns you can see until you realize that it's really an organized chaos. There isn't really ever any chance to understand it all, but we're here to keep rubbing.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

The order I found was the order of disorder

The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.

The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense?

Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various.

There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close.

Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it could cause people at the opposite end of the globe to watch a Discovery Channel special on butterflies

At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.

I see a lot of similarities and coincidences in life, in general.

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.