There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
As you open your awareness, life will improve of itself, you won't even have to try. It's a beautiful paradox: the more… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
“And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradox For he is everything and nothing Hero and fool Potent, helpless… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
One of lifes sharpest paradoxes is that our brightest future hinges on our ability to pay attention to what were doing right… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Without him, we are nothing, but the paradox is that we, the figments of another mind, will outlive the mind that made… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The paradox of questioning is that simple questions can lead to detailed, on-target answers, but complicated questions get you single-word answers from… — James Pyle Copy Share Image
The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
We've lesser minds, but bigger wallets. Bigger houses, less wealth. More food less health, more friends less love. We've bigger schools, but… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“We are killing, every one of us, every moment of the day - just by living. And if one realizes this, is… — Mark X Copy Share Image
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth:… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
No matter what you’re feeling, the only way to get a difficult feeling to go away is simply to love yourself for… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
“The greatest influence in writing was G. K. Chesterton who never used a useless word, who saw the value of a paradox,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I do consider even going to prostitutes, or seeing a hooker or an escort, as having an emotional component, even if it's… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other,… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“It's a paradox, isn't it? The people you know the most, the people you love the most-you're also going to feel the… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox… — Mary Manin Morrissey Copy Share Image
“That is the fantastic intolerable paradox of my life, that I have gone questing for what I possessed initially -- a belief… — Milton Steinberg Copy Share Image
“The paradox of anthropology: to see something, you had to be outside of it, but when you were outside of it, you… — Paul La Farge Copy Share Image
“This was the paradox: How would I ever heal from losing the person who healed me? The question was so enormous that… — Zinzi Clemmons Copy Share Image
One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts… — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
“One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in… — Joan Smith Copy Share Image
“This Lord of natures today was transformed contrary to His nature; it is not too difficult for us to also overthrow our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“(On duality) Nothing can exist for us without its opposite—for even absence itself becomes a presence through the contrast of what is… — Alyssa Skyes Copy Share Image
And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
if you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the… — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always decieve ourselves twice about the people we love-first to their advantage, then to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am still learning and experiencing things and feel like I cannot state a truth. So I guess one truth I know… — Richard Brancatisano Copy Share Image
The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Life is a paradox whatever u want, u dont get whatever u get, u dont enjoy whatever u enjoy, is not permanent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
When I run into a paradox I think either I'm a total horse's ass to have gotten to this point, or I'm… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
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