Quotes About Duality

She was nothing like me; she was everything like me. How was that even possible?

You're a jumper. He's a thinker.

You're trying to paint things as either black or white," he said. "As either good or evil. It's never that neat.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

Den enes helgon har varit den andres satkärring -- på 1300-talet liksom i nutiden.

Elle y évoque à merveille ce malaise que l'on ressent lorsqu'on revient chez ses parents après avoir quitté non seulement le domicile familial mais aussi la famille et le monde auxquels, malgré tout, on continue d'appartenir, et ce sentiment déroutant d'être à la fois chez soi et dans un univers étranger

I fear that Christians who stand with only one leg upon earth also stand with only one leg in heaven (12 August 1943).

What was it my father used to say? A bird stuck between two branches gets bitten on both wings. I would like to add my own saying to the list now, Father: a man stuck between two worlds lives and dies alone.

God be thanked, the meanest of His mortals, Has two soul-sides, one to face the world with; One to show a woman when he loves her.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

Love of two things often makes one thing right. Think of the fish racing the sea, their love of air and water turning them like wheels, their tails and teeth biting the water, their spines curved round the air.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Había dicho al principio que los hombres de la época de Funes tenían dos caras, dos existencias, una colonial, otra republicana.

That's all right, Neal thought. Every one of us is at least two people.

Together, Ben and Chon make up a collective pacifist. Ben is the paci Chon is the fist.

The lost, the lonely, the bicultural misfits with a foot in two worlds and a place in neither.

he also thinks it's true of most people, that the best part of ourselves is trapped inside the worst part of ourselves and just can't manage to get out.

Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.

It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.

More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.