Patterns Quotes

“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns.
If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish.
There is no free will.
There are no variables.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings.

We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in.”
― Oliver Sacks

“Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.”
― Michael Shermer

“From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.”
― Tony Hillerman, Coyote Waits

“We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.”
― John Stott

“We make patterns, we share moments.”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die

“I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.”
― Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

“There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“Patterns repeat themselves in history”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“There are patterns to life . . . Rhythms. It is so easy, while trapped in just the one life, to imagine that times of sadness or tragedy or failure or fear are a result of that particular existence. That it is a by-product of living a certain way, rather than simply living. I mean, it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can’t have one without the other. Of course, they come in different degrees and quantities. But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you’re in.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Connubial

Because with alarming accuracy
she’d been identifying patterns
I was unaware of—this tic, that
tendency, like the way I've mastered
the language of intimacy
in order to conceal how I felt—

I knew I was in danger
of being terribly understood.”
― Stephen Dunn

“Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.”
― Doug Dillon

“No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon

“America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Hegemon

“A great textile, like the William Morris Strawberry Thief, is a piece of art, but it takes a lot of time to make a piece of art. It isn't simply design either. You have to understand the fabrics and what they can bear. You have to understand the dyeing process and how to achieve certain colors and what will make the color last through the ages. If you make a mistake, you might have to begin again."
"I don't think I know Strawberry Thief," Sadie said.
"One moment," Mrs. Watanabe said. Mrs. Watanabe went into her bedroom, and she returned with a little footstool that was upholstered in a reproduction of Strawberry Thief. The pattern depicted birds and strawberries in a garden, and although Sadie hadn't known the name, she recognized the print when she saw it.
"This was William Morris's garden. These were his strawberries. Those were birds he knew. No designer had ever used red or yellow in an indigo discharge dyeing technique before. He must have had to start over many times to get the colors right. This fabric is not just a fabric. It's the story of failure and of perseverance, of the discipline of a craftsman, of the life of an artist.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.”
― Steven Pinker

“I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find that pattern and be happy.”
― Mary Balogh, Simply Love

“Great leaders know that under the turmoil of chaos and change, there is a beauty of patterns and designs.”
― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

“It is easy to surround yourself with people who think in the same ways, believe the same ideas, and live life in similar patterns. Many communities are made up of the same kind of people to the extent that we intentionally have to seek people whose stories are completely different from ours.”
― Holly Sprink, Faith Postures: Cultivating Christian Mindfulness

“[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and political patterns...We are now...only beginning to explore the potentialities which it offers for developments in our culture outside technology, particularly in the social, political and economic fields. It is safe to predict that...such social inventions as modern-type Capitalism, Fascism, and Communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed toward the adjustment of modern society to modern methods”
― Ralph Linton

“See yonder leafless tree against the sky,
How they diffuse themselves into the air,
And ever subdividing separate,
Limbs into branches, branches into twigs,
As if they loved the element, & hasted
To dissipate their being into it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Collected Poems and Translations

“I have learned not to confuse power patterns with the personalities of the individuals involved; in other words, to hate conditions, not individuals.”
― Saul D. Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals

“Here’s your breakfast nugget: Affirm it and receive it, only if it’s for you. Feel free to: Like, Tag and share!

Deuteronomy 2:3 — “You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north.”

You have done this thing… this sin, this cycle, this abuse, this tolerance, this disrespect, this narcissistic way so many times. When are you going to stop and turn in another direction?

If you are tired of the same cycles and patterns repeat this and mean it. Say it, post it, repeat it daily until it’s real in your life.

“The cycle ends with me. I am the interruption hell didn’t see coming.”

“This morning, I heard the Spirit whisper: ‘You’ve seen this before, but this time you’ll respond differently. This time, you’ll walk away healed, not haunted.’
Cycles don’t end when circumstances change—they end when your response does.”

Read that again!”
― Dr. Angela L. Hood

“People-pleasing is more than just being kind or helpful. It's a deeply ingrained habit of prioritizing others' needs to the detriment of our own.”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Therapist's Handbook for People-Pleasers: Breaking Free from the Need to Please and Reclaim Your Life

“While wanting to be helpful and considerate is a positive trait, people-pleasing becomes problematic when it becomes a chronic pattern that negatively impacts your well-being.”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Therapist's Handbook for People-Pleasers: Breaking Free from the Need to Please and Reclaim Your Life

“The chronic stress associated with people-pleasing takes a significant toll on your physical health.”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Therapist's Handbook for People-Pleasers: Breaking Free from the Need to Please and Reclaim Your Life

“Basing your self-worth on external validation can lead to deep feelings of inadequacy, worthlessness, and a constant need for approval.”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Therapist's Handbook for People-Pleasers: Breaking Free from the Need to Please and Reclaim Your Life

“Understanding the origins of people-pleasing is crucial for breaking free from this pattern.”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Therapist's Handbook for People-Pleasers: Breaking Free from the Need to Please and Reclaim Your Life

“This, in the therapy world, is what we call cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance. Translation? You get so tangled up in one voice, one thought, one emotion, that it hijacks the whole inner town. You believe the thought as if it were the truth”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Therapist's Handbook for Healing Your Simpsons Syndrome: Unhook from Your Inner Chaos Characters with CBT, ACT, and a Little Humor