Quotes About Paradox

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Attaining the goal of a full, happy life, ripe with experiences well-used, means that each of us will become a paradox—free, yet constrained by necessity; shrewd, yet innocent; open to others, yet self-reliant; strong, yet able to yield; centered on the highest values, yet able to accept imperfection; realistic about the suffering existence imposes on us, yet full of gratitude for life as it is.

And the most dangerous place on earth— Is where you're safe.

Your strengths are your weaknesses. The more you try to protect something, the more vulnerable you make it.

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

I am cuckolding myself

The ways of Man are inscrutable. Man giveth, and Man taketh away. Blessed be the Name of Man (though Brother Chidiock Tichborne, who had a fine old name himself, had to admit that he did not know the name of his Man, nor of the Woman either).

Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?

The beautiful is always bizarre.

The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.

How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.

The key to a good life: excess in moderation. They'll tell you moderation is the key to life, but that's bullshit.

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.

Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.

Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.