TANGLES

 Today's post begins with quotations concerning life's tangles.......

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe.  A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.  ~Remy de Gourmont.

You only see the top of a lily pad, but if you pull the Lily pad out of the water, it has roots and tangled weeds and all the stuff that comes with it.  ~Trevor Hall

Spending some time getting quiet can really be the best remedy for tangled situations.  Taking a step back from all the emotion, frustration, and exhaustion to sit quietly will do more to untangle a mess than anything else I've ever found.  ~Lysa TerKeurst

The line of life is a snarl of loops and ends.  ~James Lendall Basford (1845-1915)

So many problems, so many snags to untangle every day..... ~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, 1940s

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.  ~Gordon W. Allport, 1964

 Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.  ~Rumi

To be always ready, a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.  ~Henri Frederic Amiel, 1851

In the tangles of life, we often find the threads that lead us to our true selves.  ~Reedsi 

When asked to describe a tangle, one might first think of yarn or Christmas tree lights.  Today I'm not referring to either of those two, but rather the daily tangles that constantly evolve and suck us into the mess.   

Of the above quotations, my favorite one is.....everything cannot be untied.  Our best efforts won't ever untangle a mess of knots no matter how hard we try.  It's in our best interest to realize this so as not to wear ourselves out trying.