Quotes About Unfolding

The nature of life is to grow.

Today life opened inside me like an egg.

That way the story is put on the same footing as life, because a story is a life that didn't happen, and a life is a story that didn't get told.

The New Year is a beautiful bouquet of newer unfolding opportunities to fulfill unfinished commitments with renewed vigour of heart and move-up on an accelerating speed to reach to a new milestone of a promising career and enriching life's journey.

No one cranks the clockwork, no one points the little machine in the right direction – nature does.

The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won't be able to tell the carrots from the onions.

One only has to look at the debacle that has unfolded in Iraq after the withdrawal of U.S. troops at the end of 2011 to have a sneak preview of what could take place in an Afghanistan without some kind of residual American presence.

Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.

The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence, but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses

When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.

In unfolding, we are enfolded, and there is a melding of spirits, a melding of times, eternal, yesterday morning, the now, the ancient, even as we meet beneath a digital clock on the wall, flipping its numbers, keeping ordinary time in all that timelessness.

And you must know we do not really change over time; we are as flowers unfolding, we merely become more nearly ourselves.

It was you, Master, who let me see what little I could of the marvelous bright world unfolding around me in ways I couldn't have imagined in the land or time in which I was born.

She had fallen into particles over the course of a single evening.

I have this belief about things happening organically. I believe life has this organic flow in a way.

I'll put into words my experience as it is unfolding now in my life... in such a way that I might find comfort in knowing that someone else has the same thoughts and experiences.

It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing.

And as the story unfolded before the Ervin committee, it began to take on the characteristics of a Russian novel. Someone we had never heard of suddenly emerged as an agent in activities that were almost inconceivable.

Pain, like a pinecone unfolding, seemed to blossom beneath her breastbone.

History is full of surprises.

They have an intimate connection with each other and a common relation to a single purpose, being, in fact, so many successive stages in the unfolding of the scheme of divine grace.

In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.

You think that time is a single thread. It is a weaving, a tapestry that extends forever in all directions.

Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.