Quotes About Contradiction

Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together

Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.

It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).

Cosas que parecen opuestas pueden de hecho estar trabajando juntas.

Es necesario notar – dice Rumi – que cosas antagónicas trabajan juntas, aunque nominalmente sean opuestas.

The Sufis have said: 'The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.

Los Sufis han dicho: "La importancia de algo está en proporción inversa a su atractivo.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza. Poverty: The result of marriage.

Me llamas descreído (...) te llamaré verdadero creyente, pues el mejor contrapunto de una mentira es otra de igual magnitud.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Pobreza: el resultado del matrimonio.

Por alguna misteriosa razón los humanos nos refugiamos en aquello que más peligro nos significa, como los niños que temen la oscuridad pero juegan a hacer equilibrios en el barandal del balcón. ¿No es horrible darse cuenta de que aquello que más se teme es en el fondo lo que más se desea?

There's a paradox to most things in life. Acting is often dressing up in frocks and chasing your ego, but that doesn't mean you don't take it seriously.

The love, the hate and that strange spot in-between.

The you that you want to be is always opposite to the you that you truly are.

Whatever you think someone feels is most likely the exact opposite.

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

The funniest people are the saddest once

If all of this seems paradoxical, get used to it. Language is paradox.

Old Men's Souls Within their ancient, decrepit bodies the souls of old men wallow. Poor things, so full of sorrow: how bored with the wretched life they bear, yet how they cherish it and how they fear its loss, these contrary and befuddled souls, tragicomically huddled inside their ancient, desiccated hides.

Life is beautiful and horrible and wonderful and awful all at the same time

It's a strange feeling to be both famous and unknown at the same time.

What is the danger in the personalization era? Psychologists call it confirmation bias—"a tendency to believe things that reinforce our existing views, to see what we want to see."[53] What happens when we encounter new information that contradicts our beliefs? Researchers at Stanford monitored subjects' brain activity to trace how they responded to cognitive dissonance. Democracy is endangered when we only listen to people we agree with.

I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.

Sometimes what we think will make us happy is the opposite of what God wants for us.