Quotes About Paradox

The irony is that when we're standing across from someone who is hidden or shielded by masks and armor, we feel frustrated and disconnected. That's the paradox here: Vulnerability is the last thing I want you to see in me, but the first thing I look for in you.

More than one thing can be true at once.

There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest of you." This could be a drawing, in words, even a song. Just remember that the chances are good it will be full of paradox and contradictions.

Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.

One of life's greatest paradoxes is that it's in the crucible of pain and suffering that we become tender.

One of life's greatest paradoxes is that it's in the crucible of pain and suffering that we become tender. Not all pain and suffering, certainly. If that were the case, the whole world would be tender, since no one escapes pain and suffering. To these elements must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love and the willingness to remain vulnerable. Together they lead to wisdom and tenderness.

Is there anyone I can level with? Anyone I dare tell that I am benevolent and malevolent, chaste and randy, compassionate and vindictive, selfless and selfish, that beneath my brave words lives a frightened child, that I dabble in religion and pornography, that I have blackened a friend's character, betrayed a trust, violated a confidence, that I am tolerant and thoughtful, a bigot and a blowhard, that I hate hard rock?

That is why God is a scandal to men and women—because He cannot be comprehended by a finite mind.

She saw him as Eros, but Ferrante was convinced that the statue represented Mors, the personification of death. Later that double identity seemed significant to her. When had love become synonymous with death?

tudta, hogy egy civilizáció akkor éri el legfejlettebb, utolsó elÅ'tti szakaszát, amikor a káosz a rend álcájában parádézik, és tudta, hogy már elérkeztünk oda.

Toat? lumea omoar? pe toat? lumea într-un fel sau altul. Pescuitul m? omoar? în aceeaÈ™i m?sur? în care m? È›ine în via??.

On the one hand, everything is connected, on the other hand, it is not.

We go through life with one foot in a rose garden and the other in quick sand, he thought. - (Kurt)

Ihminen voi olla kuollut, vaikka elää, ja olla elossa, vaikka onkin kuollut.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

A man walks into a library and says, 'I hope you don't have a book on reverse psychology.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

Just as words lose their power when they are not born out of silence, so openness loses its meaning when there is no ability to be closed.

To be bored, therefore, does not mean that we have nothing to do, but that we question the value of the things we are so busy doing. The great paradox of our time is that many of us are busy and bored at the same time.

The paradox of prayer is that it asks for a serious effort while it can only be received as a gift. We cannot plan, organize or manipulate God; but without a careful discipline, we cannot receive him either.

Boredom is a sentiment of disconnectedness. While we are busy with many things, we wonder if what we do makes any real difference. Life presents itself as a random and unconnected series of activities and events over which we have little or no control. To be bored, therefore, does not mean that we have nothing to do, but that we question the value of the things we are so busy doing. The great paradox of our time is that many of us are busy and bored at the same time.

The paradox indeed is that those who want to be for "everyone" find themselves often unable to be close to anyone.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful—while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.