The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“Mr. Chan," Grace said as the wind whipped strands of her hair across her face. "What are you doing here?" She shouted… — Patti Roberts Copy Share Image
By our very nature, we are a human paradox. We are a human being. The being is infinite and the human is… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“God an all-powerful being who knows the beginning and ending of all things created an angel knowing fully well that the angel… — N.K. Aning Copy Share Image
In the performing arts you have to have thick, thick, thick skin, because of all the rejection you face on a daily… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
That's an interesting paradox to think about. Make it legal and it's no good. Why? Because as long as it's illegal the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Anarchy is all around us. Without it, our world would fall apart. All progress is due to it. All order extends from… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“The...act of surrender—or devotion, as the case may be—was, to him, a kind of lifeline for those who sought a quick answer… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“That’s the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they’re suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
This is the paradox of thrift: belt-tightening causes people to lose their jobs, because other people are not buying what they produce,… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
The paradox is that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
It's actually hard for creative people to know themselves because the creative self is more complex than the non-creative self. The things… — Scott Barry Kaufman Copy Share Image
“The information paradox- that the more data we have, the stupider we become- has a social corollary, too: that the more frantically… — Susan Maushart Copy Share Image
Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism . Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total… — Nigel Kneale Copy Share Image
The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
“Yes, and you’ve never been able to understand the suggestiveness of paradox and contradiction. That’s your problem. You live and breathe paradox… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet… — Neil Tennant Copy Share Image
To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
You are not supposed to get it. It's a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That's the biggest paradox of… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
“Parks herself seemed aware of this paradox, calling her autobiography Quiet Strength—a title that challenges us to question our assumptions. Why shouldn’t… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by… — Vilem Flusser Copy Share Image
Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
“First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“The paradox of life lies exactly in this: its resources are finite, but it itself is endless. Such a contradictory state of… — I.I. Gitelson Copy Share Image
“The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I haven't written a whole lot of nonfiction, but what I have written leads me to believe that it's an entirely different… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“The poet Rumi writes, 'Find the real world, give it endlessly away, grow rich flinging gold to all who ask. Live at… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it.… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
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