Quotes About Paradox

They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.

They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud.

Never and forever are usually neither

Daily Law: The fact that you are aware of this insignificance and smallness is paradoxically what renders you powerful and significant. It is an understanding of reality that no other animal is capable of. Such awareness can begin to restore to you that sense of awe and connection that comes from a proper sense of scale.

Albert Einstein called the intuitive or metaphoric mind a sacred gift. He added that the rational mind was a faithful servant. It is paradoxical that in the context of modern life we have begun to worship the servant and defile the divine. —Bob Samples, The Metaphoric Mind

Envy occurs most commonly and painfully among friends. We assume that something in the course of the relationship caused the friend to turn against us. Sometimes all we experience is the betrayal, the sabotage, the ugly criticisms they throw at us, and we never understand the underlying envy that inspired these actions. What we need to grasp is something paradoxical: people who feel envy in the first place are often motivated to become our friends.

An emphatic trait often conceals it's opposite

Desire often creates paradoxical effects. The more you want something, the more you chase after it, the more it eludes you. The more interest you show, the more you repel the object of your desire. This is because your interest is too strong — it makes people awkward, even fearful. Uncontrollable desire makes you seem weak, unworthy, pathetic.

How shall the mind keep warm save at spectral fires--how thrive but by the light of paradox?

World I have loved and loving hated, is it your sickness luxuriating in my body's world?

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess

The moon by day the sun by night, deaf woman, blind men, jackdaw fool, let the lord of Chaos rule.

A man who trusts everyone is a fool, Lews Therin said, and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools, if we live long enough.

people often did not like hearing about their futures, even when they said they wanted to.

He was a soldier. He was a shepherd. He was a beggar, and a king. He was a farmer, gleeman, sailor, carpenter. He was born, lived, and died Aiel. He died mad, he died rotting, he died of sickness, accident, age. He was executed, and multitudes cheered his death. He proclaimed himself the Dragon Reborn and flung his banner across the sky; he ran from the Power and hid; he lived and died never knowing.

The only way to live is to die.

Semak berduri hitam pun terkadang berbunga, indah dan putih di antara durinya Verin

the Creator must have been tired when it came time to make men; sometimes they hardly seemed human. "And

For anything with a name(and zero had so many) surely existed......Yet how could what doesn't exist, exist?

Everyone wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die.

Todos quieren ir al cielo pero nadie quiere morir

You appear to be a mass of contradictions; there's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive.

I have seen these marshes a thousand times, yet each time they're new. It's wrong to call them benign. You could just as well call them cruel and senseless, they are all of those things, but the reality of them overwhelms halfway conceptions.