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  • War is the unfolding of miscalculations. -- Barbara Tuchman
  • There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. -- Erich Fromm
  • The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence. -- James Joseph Sylvester
  • You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it! -- Sai Baba
  • It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents. -- Eric Hoffer
  • But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current. -- Carre Otis
  • The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand. -- Yves Tanguy
  • I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. -- Nikola Tesla
  • If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. -- Maria Montessori
  • Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with. -- Sharon Salzberg
  • The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true. -- George W. Bush
  • The universe is unfolding as it should. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
  • Whether of not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should... -- Max Ehrmann
  • All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual. -- Erich Fromm
  • No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one's attitude towards life. -- Annie Besant
  • For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . . -- George Eliot
  • By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players. -- Simon Conway Morris
  • Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfolding of all that exalts and adorns man. -- Mark Hopkins
  • I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us. -- Pearl S. Buck
  • You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. -- Max Ehrmann
  • It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God. -- Arthur H
  • An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain. -- Sharon Salzberg
  • For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence--an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered--'In the beginning God.' -- Arthur Compton
  • All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding. -- Priyanka Chopra
  • Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all. -- Erik Erikson
  • As a cell contains a natural intelligence by which it fosters the healthy functioning of the body, I, too, have natural intelligence that fosters the perfect unfolding of my life. -- Marianne Williamson
  • If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well. -- Jason Silva
  • There are certain ways in which I cultivate awareness, both through mindful yoga and taking care of my body and taking time to actually drop as deeply as possible into stillness, into whatever is unfolding in the present moment. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding in a way that is going to be useful to somebody else... For me, living every day in gratitude has been profound for me. -- Lea Thompson
  • The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought. -- Karl Jaspers
  • It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.' -- Arthur H. Compton
  • So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective. -- Steve Jobs
  • It's difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have been able to control our pain. If someone else is suffering, we like to tuck them away, out of sight. It's a cruel, cruel conditioning. There is no controlling the unfolding of life. -- Sharon Salzberg
  • Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring. -- Bob Considine
  • As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good. -- Tom Hanks
  • A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. -- Richard Powers
  • Cosmos' is an occasion to bring everything that I have, all of my capacity to communicate. We may go to the edge of the universe, but we're going to land right on you: in your heart, in your soul, in your mind. My goal is to have people know that they are participants in this great unfolding cosmic story. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • God to me is the universe unfolding... -- Jan Phillips
  • Life is a movement outward, an unfolding. -- Elbert Hubbard
  • You are always someones favorite unfolding story -- Ann Patchett
  • Enlightenment is the unfolding of the divinity within. -- Michael Sharp.
  • Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding. -- Amit Ray
  • Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute. -- Alan Arkin
  • Once you stay open, it's incredible what starts unfolding. -- Eva Mendes
  • Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame. -- Mason Cooley
  • Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding -- Cheryl Strayed
  • Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding. -- John Lennon
  • At the level of spirit, everything is always unfolding perfectly. -- Deepak Chopra
  • A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding. -- Tony Hsieh
  • We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves -- Rudy Rucker
  • There is something thrilling in the mimesis of life's surprising unfolding. -- Joyce Carol Oates
  • Your brand is a story unfolding across all customer touch points. -- Jonah Sachs
  • View others as unfolding beings in their journey toward higher consciousness. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
  • Our sense of calling should be like an unfolding epic adventure. -- Christine Caine
  • Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul. -- Sivananda
  • The unfolding of the bare human soul...that is what interests me. -- Bruce Lee
  • Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another. -- Pope Benedict XVI
  • I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken. -- Ram Dass
  • Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding. -- Daniel H. Wilson
  • Blossoming and unfolding are basically the same thing, but blossoming is more romantiC. -- Zooey Deschanel
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  • The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint. -- Peter Atkins
  • The life of your dreams begins with the unfolding of consciousness from within. -- Jiulio Consiglio
  • The object of pure Mathematic (is) that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence. -- James Joseph Sylvester
  • We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur. -- Russell Simmons
  • Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life. -- Elizabeth George
  • I am a work in progress dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding. -- Ani DiFranco
  • A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph -- Warren Buffett
  • There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding. -- Erik Erikson
  • The unfolding of a Spermatic Aura like a sheet in the Universe. That we are ~ -- Grigoris Deoudis
  • You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life. -- Wayne Dyer
  • You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life. -- Wayne Dyer
  • The unfolding code of what you really are occurs every time you go to sleep. -- John de Ruiter
  • Deciding on when to kick is crucial and depends on how the race is unfolding. -- Michael East
  • Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding. -- Jim Morrison
  • Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness -- Laozi
  • Whether or not it is clear to you,no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. -- Max Ehrmann
  • The unfolding of our friendship with the Father will be a never-ending revelation strretching on into eternity -- Catherine Marshall
  • Everything is unfolding perfectly. As this perfection unfolds, I learn and grow and become all I'm becoming. -- Bryan Kest
  • We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night. -- Jack Kornfield
  • True success is ... the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us. -- Deepak Chopra
  • I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story. -- Nick Cave
  • Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness -- Laozi
  • Life is a mystery- mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery. -- Amit Ray
  • God's concern is for His name, His glory, His people, His unfolding eternal purpose and for His Kingdom. -- Alistair Begg
  • God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story. -- Louie Giglio
  • As life has a way of unfolding as it is meant to, I have learned to trust life. -- Linda Thompson
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  • Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth. -- Philip Gerard
  • Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land. -- Aldo Leopold
  • The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • It's a wonderful destiny! God made no mistakes when God wrote the beautiful, unfolding pattern of delight as You! -- Michael Beckwith
  • No matter what you are experiencing in life right now, trust that all is unfolding in your best interests. -- Robin Sharma
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  • I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me. -- Cate Blanchett
  • Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once. -- Annie Proulx
  • They all lie, from the top man down to the bottom. If their lips are moving, a lie is unfolding. -- William Rivers Pitt
  • Pain is as expansive as life itself. Pain grows with us and in us as a cultivation of life's unfolding. -- Bryant McGill
  • Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do. -- Chad Harbach
  • Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity. -- Jack Kornfield
  • The price of gold is up 14 fold since last time I tried unfolding it. And laundry has declined two folds. -- Jarod Kintz
  • There's no negatives. You just have to trust that what's happening in your life is unfolding in exactly the right way. -- Hilary Swank
  • If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth. -- Maria Montessori
  • An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea. -- Herman Melville
  • One energy field. Our bodies have distracted us from our energy. We are the infinite field of unfolding possibilities. The creative force. -- Rhonda Byrne
  • The unfolding time for the end of globalization or a worldwide deflation is much longer, certainly measured in years, if not decades. -- John L. Casti
  • The mind of man is continuously unfolding into a greater recognition of its real plan in the creative order of the Universe. -- Ernest Holmes
  • Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey. -- Wayne Teasdale
  • Focus on the center of the chest, relax. Imagine a rose there. Feel it unfolding. Let yourself go and ignore your thoughts. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • The pleasure of the soul appears to be found in the journey of discovery, the unfolding revelation of expanded insight and experience. -- Anthony Lawlor
  • If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consoling. -- Simon Blackburn
  • We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny. -- David Richo
  • Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness. -- Dan Millman
  • 250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for by Darwin. -- David M. Raup
  • There are always people who are going to be opportunistic when they see situations unfolding the way that they are in New Orleans. -- Jeffrey Robinson
  • Surrender is not a weakness it is strength.It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme - to the cosmic unfolding. -- Mooji
  • The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place. -- Rose Tremain
  • Doubt is a virus that attacks our self-esteem, productivity and confidence. Faith that you and your life are perfectly unfolding is the strongest vaccine. -- Sean Stephenson
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