Quotes About Complementarity

Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her pure and tender heart. Always woman needs man to be her friend. She needs the vigor of his purpose, the ardor of his will, his calmer judgment, his braver force of action, his reverence and his devotion.

Holiness is neither that passionate love of the beginning, nor the tormenting anxiety of the long waits and of the moonlight walks, but is that superior form of friendship that is given this time a true eternal look, of comprehension, of acceptance of the self sacrifice for friendship, understanding and complementarity.

For what is the beloved? She is that which I myself am not. In the act of love, I am pure male, and she is pure female. She is she, and I am I, and clasped together with her, I know how perfectly she is not me, now perfectly I am not her, how utterly we are two, the light and the darkness, and how infinetly and eternally, not-to-be-comprehended by either of us is the surpassing One we make.

Love and justice are like water and fire -- although both are necessary, they go together with difficulty. Compassion and wisdom are like heat and light -- although different, they work together in complementarity.

The simple beauty of the yin/yang system is based on the observation that everything has two sides. The word yin designates the shady side of a mountain; the word yang represents the sunny side. By extension, yin came to mean all things dark, cool, damp, hidden, withdrawn, interior, feminine, while yang represented all things light, warm, dry, exteriorized, visible, masculine.

If God meant woman to rule over man, He would have taken her out of Adam's head. Had He designed her to be his slave, He would have taken her out of his feet. But God took woman out of man's side, for He made her to be a helpmate and an equal to him. —Augustine

A la manera de la armonía musical, las diferencias armonizadas producen complementariedades, completitudes, una especie de obra melodiosa.

Ma l'amore è questo: prendersi cura l'uno dell'altro, anche se in maniera sgrammaticata e maldestra, ognuno a partire dall'intensità imperfetta della propria storia fino alla perfezione neutra della complementarietà.

Feminism" means taking for granted that woman and man are meant to complement each other while sharing equal dignity, equal rights, and equal humanity—nothing more and nothing less.

Women are the twin halves of men

Male and female require balance. In humanity, as in cosmic order, balance in male and female does not equal bisexuality, homosexuality or unisexuality. It equals complementarity of roles in a realm of responsibility which neither gender can know or do all. But,

Lo importante es lo maravilloso que fue sentirla tan cerca, y la certeza insoportable y definitiva de que somos dos personas en lugar de una. Pero también es saber lo maravilloso que es eso: que, a pesar de ser dos personas distintas, casi podemos ser una sola persona, y al mismo tiempo deleitarnos en la singularidad de la otra

I need a real MAN-- so, I can be a Woman-- We are different for good reasons. We need each other like puzzle pieces. To inspire greatness in each other.

I was beginning to see fewer of our weaknesses and more of our strengths; the events of the day were a reminder of how each of us had certain abilities that the rest did not. It was as if we were each a part of a whole body- one the hands, another the legs, and so on- dependent on one another and working best when we performed in unity. I felt inadequate then, unsure what part of this body I might be.

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?