“Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.”

Source: Lock and Key

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself." by Sarah Dessen?
Sarah Dessen photo
Sarah Dessen 511
American writer 1970

Related quotes

Bill Skarsgård photo
Tenzin Gyatso photo
Jonas Salk photo

“When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course.”

Jonas Salk (1914–1995) Inventor of polio vaccine

The Open Mind interview (1985)
Context: When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making and an error-correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better — ever so much slightly better — at error correcting than at error making, then we'll make it.

L. P. Jacks photo

“In all great poetry there is a kind of “kenosis” of the understanding, a self-emptying of the tongue. Here language points away from itself to something greater than itself.”

L. P. Jacks (1860–1955) British educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister

The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
Context: The poet takes us straight into the presence of things. Not by explanation, but by indication; not by exhausting its qualities, but by suggesting its value he gives us the object, raising it from the mire where it lies trodden by the concepts of the understanding, freeing it from the entanglements of all that “the intellect perceives as if constituting its essence.” Thus exhibited, the object itself becomes the meeting-ground of the ages, a centre where millions of minds can enter together into possession of the common secret. It is true that language is here the instrument with which the fetters of language are broken. Words are the shifting detritus of the ages; and as glass is made out of the sand, so the poet makes windows for the soul out of the very substance by which it has been blinded and oppressed. In all great poetry there is a kind of “kenosis” of the understanding, a self-emptying of the tongue. Here language points away from itself to something greater than itself.

Philip K. Dick photo
Theodore Parker photo

“The universe itself is a great autograph of the Almighty.”

Theodore Parker (1810–1860) abolitionist

"The Material World and Man's Relation Thereto", Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man (1872) edited by Rufus Leighton, p. 9.
Context: Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God. On this world about us He has inscribed His thought, in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand. The universe itself is a great autograph of the Almighty.

Paulo Coelho photo

Related topics