What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order. ~ Katherine Paterson

A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account. ~ André Malraux

All is soon ready in an orderly house. ~ American Proverb

As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living. ~ Jean Piaget

Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites. Chaos and Order combined equal balance. ~ Richard Garriott

Good order is the foundation of all things. ~ Edmund Burke

Everything is good in its place. ~ American Proverb

Order is heaven's first law. ~ Alexander Pope

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. ~ Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. ~ Pearl S. Buck

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize. ~ Henry Miller

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. ~ Kerry Thornley

When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves, we try to order things outside us. ~ Shunryu Suzuki

By a tranquil mind, I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered. ~ Marcus Aurelius

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful. ~ Denis Diderot

As for the “proper way:” it is the beginning of disorder. ~ Lao Tzu