Lauren Oliver Quotes

At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something

Even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings with something small.

Every time we create something new we go from zero to one.

The Universe is either expressing a miracle or is pregnant with the next one.

Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work.

Thought is the primary energy and vibration that emanated from God and is thus the creator of life, electrons, atoms, and all forms of energy.

A world to be born under your footsteps.

Our way out involves both resistance and renewal: saying no to what is, so that we can reshape and recreate the world. Our challenge is communal, but to face it we must be empowered as individuals and create structures of support and celebration that can teach us freedom. Creation is the ultimate resistance, the ultimate refusal to accept things as they are. For it is in creation that we encounter Mystery.

We gotta ditch conservatism and people that believe it, we gotta move on. Otherwise, if we don't, we're just delaying our nightmare, postponing the nightmare. That's Ford O'Connell.

We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.

The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.

Everything is gestation and then birthing.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

Change is one thing, progress is another.

If it weren't for desire, the formless would not have come into form and engage creatively.

Change is a natural form of progression.

I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.

Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an alive phenomenon. The self is not a thing, it is an event, it is a process. Never think in terms of things, the self is not there inside you just like a thing waiting in your room. The self is a process: changing, moving, arriving at new altitudes, moving into new planes, going deeper into new depths. Each moment much work is going on and the only way to encounter this self is to encounter it in relationship.

The beginnings of all things are small.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

Our creation is the modification of relationship.