Quotes About Opposites

Without the bad, there would be no good. Without the sad there would be no happy. Without the pain there would be no joy. Without the hate there would be no love. Without you there would be no me. Without your eyes you wouldn't be able to see. Why cant you just see that I love you, with all my heart. That without you there isn't a me. I'm just a lost soul trying to fit into a world that I don't belong in without you.

Light, cannot exist without darkness. As such, in order to maintain the survival of one, the other must be kept within docility.

The greatest and the smallest, light and dark, right and wrong - they all come together to form the miracle that is life, and none can exist without the others.

Hegel further believed that all things owe their existence to their opposites and that all opposites are actually identical.

The dark and the light are braided and bound.

Una certa somiglianza esiste, pur evolvendosi, fra le donne che via via amiamo, e dipende dalla fissità del nostro temperamento il quale, assumendosi l'incarico di sceglierle, elimina tutte quelle che non siano per noi, ad un tempo, opposte e complementari, vale a dire atte a soddisfare i nostri sensi e a far soffrire il nostro cuore.

And it struck me, in that year, how deeply both faith and doubt are part of my life. We often think of them as opposites. Many books argue for one or the other. But while in some respects they are enemies, in other ways they are surprisingly alike: both are concerned with ultimate issues; both pop up unasked for at unexpected moments; both are necessary. I

For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?

For how can one know colour in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?

The first man was small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features. Every part of him was defined: small, strong hands, slender arms, a thin and bony nose. Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, and wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws. His arms did not swing at his sides, but hung loosely.

Love and hate aren't as far apart as you think.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold...We appreciate light because we have been in darkness...By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness...

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

For every up there is a down, for every frown there is a smile, for every night there is a day and for every problem there is a way.

For every high there is a low, every good a bad, every action a reaction. To experience it is living, to accept is adult, to learn & rise above is to be strong.

Happiness needs sadness. Success needs failure. Benevolence needs evil. Love needs hatred. Victory needs defeat. Pleasure needs pain. You must experience and accept the extremes. Because if the contrast is lost, you lose appreciation; and when you lose appreciation, you lose the value of everything.

Existence was a chain. Life at one end, vibrant and powerful; nothingness at the other.

As passion's object, dig with your ampersand: be cold & hot. The receptive earth will come to transform the root-end that your planting hand cut & abandoned, to new chrysanthemum. Heartfelt thought, drop your guard, keep clear, be slow; double your careful opposites & grow.

If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality.

Todos sus Más se corresponden con mis Menos. Todos sus Menos se corresponden con mis Más.

The Taoists realised that all opposites aren't opponents that must clash but are part of a dynamic balance of existence, necessary to create and sustain life.

A core fundamental of human existence is wonder—and its analogue is fear. You can't have one without the other, flip sides of the coin.

For instance, there is no light without darkness—and this troubles many of us—but without it, how else would we tell one from the other? We spend half of every day in darkness; surely we should make our peace with this.