Quotes About Paradox

This paradox—how a belief founded on a gospel of love could cause so much pain—is a big reason why people are leaving the church in droves. And it's no small part of my struggle as I step into the pilgrim realm.

The villainous sun and the starved bank did not seem related—yet.

beliefs are perhaps more allegorical than factual.

Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.

Options - the ability to choose - is real power. This book is all about how to see and create those options with the least effort and cost. It just so happens, paradoxically, that you can make more money - a lot more money - by doing half of what you are doing now.

you can use positive constraints to increase perceived free will and results. Freeform days might seem idyllic, but they are paralyzing due to continual paradox of choice (e.g., "What should I do now?") and decision fatigue (e.g., "What should I have for breakfast?"). In

We are simultaneously gods and worms."—Abraham Maslow

Things in Excess Become Their Opposite. It is possible to have too much of a good thing. In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite. Thus: Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.4 Too much, too many, and too often of what you want becomes what you don't want.

The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy-consuming.

My definition of 'love' is being willing to die for someone who you yourself want to kill. That, in my experience, is kind of the deal.

Heraclitean Fire by Erwin Chargaff,

Several thousand years from now, nothing about you as an individual will matter. But what you did will have huge consequences. This is the paradox of the ecological age. And it is why action to change global warming must be massive and collective.

Cuanto más sabes acerca de algo, tanto más extraño se vuelve.

The next mode is magical thinking, or the open embrace of contradiction.

Hold on. So in my mind, this jacked-up, sideways ridiculousness is the normal state?

Tu come va? - Bene. A parte che sto male, bene.

Vuoi diventare adulta? E' la cosa più infantile che abbia mai sentito.

Bisognava entrare nei recessi di quello straordinario palazzo al buio, e solo lentamente scoprire, nella luce tramolante delle lampade al burro, le smorfie delle ogre e i sorrisi benevoli dei Buddha. Il neon pra impedisce ogni scoperta, tarpa le ali a chi voglia ancora abbandonarsi ai voli dello spirito.

And however much the princess was assured that in our time young people themselves must settle their fate, she was unable to believe it, as she would have been unable to believe that in anyone's time the best toys for five-year-old children would be loaded pistols.

A little mathematical paradox that no tyrant has ever solved: I have three enemies. I have them all brutally and publicly executed. Now have many enemies have I got? The correct answer is usually in the region of 'seventy-nine'." –

Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

I find it odd that people take me seriously.

Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.'

It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.