Quotes About Opposites

Fire and paper - they do not mix well, n'est pas? Perhaps they mix too well.

He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.

The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.

Perfect is not when compatible people are together. It's when you're both opposite's but in that way you complete each other.

The extreme positive and the extreme negative are always similar. When the vibrations of light are too slow, we do not see them, nor do we see them when they are too rapid. So with sound; when very low in pitch, we do not hear it; when very high, we do not hear it either.

Sabism is a dualism and a polyvalent sign of ambivalence, bipolarity and synthesis.

I see us as the dark and the light. Two sides of the same thing. You are bright and shining and I am a thing of shadows." "I will be your white horse and you can be my black," I murmured and held him closer.

To make one, there must be two.

Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.

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

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult and you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be.

Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites? I

To the passionate language of Parmenides, Plato replies in a strain equally passionate:--What! has not Being mind? and is not Being capable of being known? and, if this is admitted, then capable of being affected or acted upon?--in motion, then, and yet not wholly incapable of rest. Already we have been compelled to attribute opposite determinations to Being. And the answer to the difficulty about Being may be equally the answer to the difficulty about Not-being.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Carry shadow on your back, embrace light in your arms," the Tao Te Ching tells us)

The dark makes the light stuff brighter.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. —Carl Gustav Jung PART 1 RUSTLING WILLOWS Incredible coincidences without apparent cause are called synchronicities.

Every dark cloud has a silver lining—conversely, the silver lining frames a dark cloud. Or as chapter 58 of Tao Te Ching expresses it: Misfortune is what fortune depends upon Fortune is where misfortune hides beneath Yin contains yang; yang contains yin. Every failure harbors the hidden seed of future success; every triumph contains the covert cause of future defeat. Thus, Sai Ong's father isn't mortified by bad news—but neither is he overelated

I am attracted to dumb people.

There's a duality in every man and every woman.

Nothing shy of a miracle could bring about a match between a woman committed to protecting lives and a man who'd destroyed more than his share.

Earth-Sky…Day-Night…Sound-Silence…Dark-Light…Balance!

Earth-Sky…Quiet-Sound…Dark-Light…Up-Down…Balance!

If we were in a spreadsheet, we'd be in different columns." She'd be under uptight/nerdy/homely girls, and he'd be under badass men with bodies of..um..Navy SEALS. He grunted. "Just so you know, I hate spreadsheets with a hot, burning passion.