Quotes About Contrast

People – Americans, mostly – realise how attached they are to material comforts when they arrive in India.

Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in here, I said, and they are out there? That's the way it is, said Aunt Hetty, the shriveled-up one. I have the rages that small animals have, being small, being animal. Written on me was a message, "At Your Service," like a book of paper matches. One by one we were taken out and struck. We come bearing supper, our heads on fire.

behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.

God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

Don't forget:beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies.

It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us.

Beauty exists not in sameness but in difference.

Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

I've lit a fire on the mountain opposite yours

I ask myself how I can exist in two such different worlds in one day.

Because a lady wearing high heels leaves deeper footprints than an elephant.

He took blue and red and placed them next to each other, painting the eyes of an angel. And I saw the angel's eyes turn violet

However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.

and looked sharply across the street. There was only one house

On croirait qu'il y a en elle deux personnes : l'une silencieuse, lointaine, même un peu taciturne, l'autre très gaie, mais d'une gaieté trop forcée pour être de la vraie joie.

Day by day beneath the opulence of this city Wang Lung lived in the foundations of poverty upon which it was laid.

Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper, realizing that it's a passing memory, and moving closer to all those fears and all those edgy feelings that maybe you're not okay . Well, no big deal. None of us is okay and all of us are fine. We are walking, talking paradoxes.

Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.