Quotes About Duality

There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.

It simply dazzled her how he went from goofy bear, rolling on his back and playing with his toes, and right into sexy-beyond-belief Jersey grizzly who'd worked her body like a love god.

Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

Nature does not provide one nerve without pairing it a second, he'd said. She invests us with two lungs, two kidneys, two eyes, two ears. The singular brain is divided into identical hemispheres; the heart has two corresponding auricles and ventricles. We are paired creatures, mourns Henry. He took the dress lodger's baby. She took his beloved in return. He should have realized: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Even revenge is paired.

Nature is being kind without knowing it, as nature can be cruel without knowing it.

Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.

When you sit in the full lotus position, your left foot is on your right thigh, and your right foot is on your left thigh. When we cross our legs like this, even though we have a right leg and a left leg, they have become one. The position expresses the oneness of duality: not two, and not one. This is the most important teaching: not two, and not one.

Dependence is a two-sided sword…….. it kills the person on either side of it!!!!

We are what we are, and half of what we are is what we are not.

Think, two things on their own and both at once.

It was the best of Times New Roman, it was the worst of Times New Roman.)

There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth

There's a thin line between love and hate. Maybe you're confusing your emotions.

Every man is his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

Rules only make sense if they are both kept and broken. Breaking the rule is one way of observing it.

More than anything, the pictures had altered my vision of George. The graceful young man with long dark hair and beautiful manners had spawned a double, and it was this second man, the one I didn't know, who fascinated me.

I'm sure that my dreams of maleness are least partly about escaping the cultural expectation that burden femininity, but I also think they are something more complex, that the dreams recognize a truth that there is a man in me as well as a woman and that this duality is in fact part of being human, but not one that is always easy to reconcile.

Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.

There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.

Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.

People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.

Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?

Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.