Patterns Quotes

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Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the… — Brian Weiss
...the reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it. — Gregory Maguire
as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words… — Anne Rice
The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern. — Chip Heath
He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to… — Ursula K. Le Guin
And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out… — Kim Stanley Robinson
It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of… — Bell Hooks
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnetâ€¦There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. Thatâ€™s a very strict… — Madeleine L'Engle
Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher… — Kate Atkinson
We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition. — William Gibson
But love, Iâ€™ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the… — Nicholas Sparks
We search for patterns, you see, only to find where the patterns break. And itâ€™s there, in that fissure, that we pitch our tents and… — Nicole Krauss
And since we donâ€™t just forget things because they donâ€™t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers… — Philip Roth
The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of… — Aldous Huxley
I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know… — William Shakespeare
I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a… — Jonathan Ames
Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it… — Vera Nazarian
a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only… — Tom Wolfe
Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns...We may… — Tara Brach
Artâ€”the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain… — Lawrence Durrell

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