Quotes About Paradox

It is a paradoxical statement, but it takes incredible personal discipline to play with great freedom.

Predictability and great design are not friends.

Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.

Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.

Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.

Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.

One's greatest happiness is also his greatest weakness.

I had never imagined that happiness could hurt so much.

What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told.

Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.