The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people. — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is. — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it's not paradoxical it's not true!” — C.B. Murphy Copy Share Image
When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“From time to time I once wondered how one wanders from time to time And think up the paradox line Speak of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
As far as possible, Arianne realized, each soul had to be content alone before plunging into love, because one never knew when… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when… — Patrick Dodson Copy Share Image
“Beautiful blueberry nights fill my liver with morning and the nozzle of my heart spews forth an amalgam of blood. The sun… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
“In order for a god to be all-knowing, he must know even the fact of his own omniscience. But can he do… — Roland Puccetti Copy Share Image
And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension.… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can… — Zeno of Elea Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me. — Jean Reno Copy Share Image
At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
Jesus brings mystery, paradox, and tension - rarely did someone get a straight answer out of Him — Mike Erre Copy Share Image
Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there. — M E W Sherwood Copy Share Image
The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox. — James Clavell Copy Share Image
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
“To her he was still mythic, still larger than life, still the man who could deactivate monsters. He was also the man… — Scott Cawthon Copy Share Image