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title: "Famous Paradox Proverbs"
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> [There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-london/there-is-an-ecstasy-that-marks-the-summit-of-life-and-beyond-which-2/)

[Jack London](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-london/)

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> [As you open your awareness, life will improve of itself, you won't even have to try. It's a beautiful paradox: the more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thaddeus-golas/as-you-open-your-awareness-life-will-improve-of-itself-you-won-t-even/)

[Thaddeus Golas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thaddeus-golas/)

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> [Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-b-smedes/self-control-is-about-being-in-charge-of-the-direction-our-lives-are/)

[Lewis B. Smedes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-b-smedes/)

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> [“And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradox For he is everything and nothing Hero and fool Potent, helpless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-r-donaldson/and-he-who-wields-white-wild-magic-gold-is-a-paradox-for-he-is/)

[Stephen R. Donaldson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-r-donaldson/)

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> [One of lifes sharpest paradoxes is that our brightest future hinges on our ability to pay attention to what were doing right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suman-rai/one-of-lifes-sharpest-paradoxes-is-that-our-brightest-future-hinges/)

[Suman Rai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suman-rai/)

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> [The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-north-whitehead/the-paradox-is-now-fully-established-that-the-utmost-abstractions-are/)

[Alfred North Whitehead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-north-whitehead/)

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> [“Without him, we are nothing, but the paradox is that we, the figments of another mind, will outlive the mind that made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/without-him-we-are-nothing-but-the-paradox-is-that-we-the-figments-of/)

[Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-auster/)

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> [“The paradox of questioning is that simple questions can lead to detailed, on-target answers, but complicated questions get you single-word answers from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-pyle/the-paradox-of-questioning-is-that-simple-questions-can-lead-to/)

James Pyle

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> [The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-barzun/the-ever-present-impulse-is-to-push-against-restriction-and-in-so/)

[Jacques Barzun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-barzun/)

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> [We've lesser minds, but bigger wallets. Bigger houses, less wealth. More food less health, more friends less love. We've bigger schools, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-limn/we-ve-lesser-minds-but-bigger-wallets-bigger-houses-less-wealth-more/)

[Jeremy Limn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-limn/)

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> [“We are killing, every one of us, every moment of the day - just by living. And if one realizes this, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-x/we-are-killing-every-one-of-us-every-moment-of-the-day-just-by-living/)

[Mark X](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-x/)

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> [Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-r-r-tolkien-2/out-of-the-darkness-of-my-life-so-much-frustrated-i-put-before-you/)

[J. R. R. Tolkien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-r-r-tolkien-2/)

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> [A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-friend-therefore-is-a-sort-of-paradox-in-nature-i-who-alone-am-i/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/perhapsthemost-sublimeinsights-ofthejewishprophets-and-the-christian/)

[Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/)

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> [If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-adams/if-it-were-worth-while-to-argue-a-paradox-one-might-maintain-that/)

[Henry Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-adams/)

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> [No matter what you’re feeling, the only way to get a difficult feeling to go away is simply to love yourself for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christiane-northrup/no-matter-what-you-re-feeling-the-only-way-to-get-a-difficult-feeling/)

[Christiane Northrup](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christiane-northrup/)

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> [“The greatest influence in writing was G. K. Chesterton who never used a useless word, who saw the value of a paradox,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fulton-j-sheen/the-greatest-influence-in-writing-was-g-k-chesterton-who-never-used-a/)

[Fulton J. Sheen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fulton-j-sheen/)

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> [I do consider even going to prostitutes, or seeing a hooker or an escort, as having an emotional component, even if it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/esther-perel/i-do-consider-even-going-to-prostitutes-or-seeing-a-hooker-or-an/)

[Esther Perel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/esther-perel/)

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> [“Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/joy-is-that-paradox-where-a-man-so-trusts-is-so-enraptured-as-to-be/)

[Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-cohn/it-s-a-paradox-isn-t-it-the-people-you-know-the-most-the-people-you/)

[Rachel Cohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-cohn/)

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> [Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-manin-morrissey/have-you-ever-struggled-to-find-work-or-love-only-to-find-them-after/)

[Mary Manin Morrissey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-manin-morrissey/)

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> [“That is the fantastic intolerable paradox of my life, that I have gone questing for what I possessed initially -- a belief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-steinberg/that-is-the-fantastic-intolerable-paradox-of-my-life-that-i-have-gone/)

[Milton Steinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-steinberg/)

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> [“The paradox of anthropology: to see something, you had to be outside of it, but when you were outside of it, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-la-farge/the-paradox-of-anthropology-to-see-something-you-had-to-be-outside-of/)

[Paul La Farge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-la-farge/)

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> [“This was the paradox: How would I ever heal from losing the person who healed me? The question was so enormous that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zinzi-clemmons/this-was-the-paradox-how-would-i-ever-heal-from-losing-the-person-who/)

[Zinzi Clemmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zinzi-clemmons/)

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> [One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-sinek/one-of-the-best-paradoxes-of-leadership-is-a-leader-s-need-to-be-both/)

[Simon Sinek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-sinek/)

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> [I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-ray-vaughan/i-got-a-lot-of-paradoxes-in-my-life-i-guess-i-m-a-real-confused/)

[Stevie Ray Vaughan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-ray-vaughan/)

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> [ “One of the chief paradoxes of our culture \[is\] that the welfare of its children, its \_future\_, is placed almost exclusively in… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-smith/one-of-the-chief-paradoxes-of-our-culture-is-that-the-welfare-of-its/)

[Joan Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-smith/)

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> [“This Lord of natures today was transformed contrary to His nature; it is not too difficult for us to also overthrow our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/this-lord-of-natures-today-was-transformed-contrary-to-his-nature-it/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“(On duality) Nothing can exist for us without its opposite—for even absence itself becomes a presence through the contrast of what is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alyssa-skyes/on-duality-nothing-can-exist-for-us-without-its-opposite-for-even/)

[Alyssa Skyes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alyssa-skyes/)

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> [And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-peters/and-remember-everything-in-business-is-a-paradox-to-be-excellent-you/)

[Tom Peters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-peters/)

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> [if you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-howatch/if-you-pursue-the-truth-far-enough-you-always-wind-up-in-the-land-of/)

[Susan Howatch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-howatch/)

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> [We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/we-live-on-the-brink-of-disaster-because-we-do-not-know-how-to-let/)

[Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-merton/)

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> [“He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always decieve ourselves twice about the people we love-first to their advantage, then to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-camus/he-discovered-the-cruel-paradox-by-which-we-always-decieve-ourselves/)

[Albert Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-camus/)

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> [The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-paradox-in-christian-truth-is-invariably-due-to-the-fact-that-it/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I am still learning and experiencing things and feel like I cannot state a truth. So I guess one truth I know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-brancatisano/i-am-still-learning-and-experiencing-things-and-feel-like-i-cannot/)

[Richard Brancatisano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-brancatisano/)

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> [The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alister-e-mcgrath/the-20th-century-gave-rise-to-one-of-the-greatest-and-most/)

[Alister E. McGrath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alister-e-mcgrath/)

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> [The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/the-kafka-paradox-art-depends-on-truth-but-truth-being-indivisable/)

[Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/)

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> [Life is a paradox whatever u want, u dont get whatever u get, u dont enjoy whatever u enjoy, is not permanent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/life-is-a-paradox-whatever-u-want-u-dont-get-whatever-u-get-u-dont/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/there-is-the-you-that-people-see-and-then-there-is-the-rest-of-you/)

[Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlie-munger/when-i-run-into-a-paradox-i-think-either-i-m-a-total-horse-s-ass-to/)

[Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlie-munger/)

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                        "text": "We've lesser minds, but bigger wallets. Bigger houses, less wealth. More food less health, more friends less love. We've bigger schools, but less life experience. We've more books but, less reading, more events but lesser participants. We live so much to suffer, but we live more to suffer less.",
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                        "text": "Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament…There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, that every man's heart desires",
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                        "text": "A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.",
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