Quotes About Opposites

The opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy.

Everybody plays two forever. Love, hate. Give, take. There's always the yin and the yang. Everything in life." —Ernie Banks

I have been wondering this summer why our love has seemed deeper, tenderer than ever before. It's taken us twenty-five years, almost, but perhaps at last we are willing to let each other be; as we are; two diametrically opposite human beings in many ways, which has often led to storminess. But I think we are both learning not to chafe at the other's particular is ness.

Failure and Success are two sides of the same coin. One does not exist without the other.

A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

Thomas Mann writes somewhere that hatred is simply love with a minus sign placed before it.

how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

Because I think to myself, even today, how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

At sixteen Sabina took moon baths, first of all because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous. The effect of moon baths was unknown, but it was intimated that it might be the opposite of the sun's effect. The first time she exposed herself she was frightened. What would the consequences be?

Wherever this is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

Viajamos en direcciones opuestas. Observo todo esto en tono trágico.

the polar opposite of suffering [is] boredom." I believe that pain needs to be transformed but not forgotten; gainsaid but not obliterated. I

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Dove c'è molta luce, l'ombra è più nera...

Carrying such a tension of the opposites is like a Crucifixion. We must be as one suspended between the opposites, a painful state to bear. But in such a state of suspension the grace of God is able to operate within us. The problem of our duality can never be resolved on the level of the ego; it permits no rational solution. But where there is consciousness of a problem, the Self, the Imago Dei within us can operate and bring about an irrational synthesis of the personality.

This irrational healing process, which finds a way around seemingly insurmountable obstacles, has a particularly feminine quality to it. It is the rational, logical masculine mind that declares that opposites like ego and Shadow, light and dark, can never be united. However, the feminine spirit is capable of finding a synthesis where logic says none can be found.

Life and death are different sides of the same coin.

There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang

Fire and water cannot stay in the same place. Similarly, truth and lie reflect and describe such context; accordingly, whatever one feels that an opposite one will fail to bear it.

Remember, tears on one side mean laughs on the other!

Yo me siento como el caballero de una novela antigua que, encerrado en su armadura resplandeciente, tras acometer mil empresas prodigiosas por el mundo, se topa con un pastor harapiento, desnutrido, que sin apartarse nunca del pastizal, con portentoso coraje doblega y domina a horribles bestias con sus propias manos.

It had never occurred to me to think of aesthetics and ethics as opposites. I thought ethics were aesthetic. "Ethics" meant the golden rule, which was basically an aesthetic rule. That's why it was called "golden," like the golden ratio.

Physiologically, the union of two opposites is a pleasurable affair. Why should the psyche be any different?

God has a unique way of balancing out His gift to the people because a man with a strong intellect often has a weak body physique and vice versa.