Elizabeth Moon Quotes

You always have to wrestle with chaos.

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.

My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.

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

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

We're all seeking order. We're all seeking control.

Disorder brings about order.

I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.

Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.

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

The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.

Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.

Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.