Quotes About Opposites

They were both poles apartOne a ready masterpieceAnother an unfinished art...

Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.

She was as unlike my father as it was possible to be." "Well, they do say opposites attract." "But can opposites exist together for the long term?

The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies.

By this reckoning he is more a shrew than she.

But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

T]o be a castaway is to be caught up in grim and exhausting opposites.

I turned to look into his face one last time. It was as if I could see the whole universe in his eyes. Maybe he was God, maybe he was simply enlightened. I didn't care right then, in that blessed moment, I just loved him. Later, though, the love was to turn to hate, to fear. They seemed so opposite, the feelings, yet they were all one note on his flute.

What Angela writes can be read aloud: her words are voluptuous and give physical pleasure. I am geometric, Angela is a spiral, all finesse. She is intuitive, I am logical. She is not afraid to err in the use of words. And I do not err. I am well aware that she is the succulent grape and I am the raisin.

Give them all the contextualization and whatnot you like – they're still chalk and cheese.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Always having what we want may not be the best good fortune Health seems sweetest after sickness, food in hunger, goodness in the wake of evil, and at the end of daylong labor sleep.

People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.

Graspings: wholes and not wholes, convergent divergent, consonant dissonant, from all things one and from one thing all.

From the strain of binding opposites comes harmony.

Si no hubiera un constante juego entre los contrastes, el mundo dejaría de existir

We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

He's flint, you're tinder.

Against my shoulder she whispers, 'He's flint, you're tinder.

If you're the sickness, I suppose you can't also be the cure.

Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.