All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life. — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself. — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
“The tourist’s paradox: how to find somewhere that’s free of people exactly like us.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They… — Brian May Copy Share Image
The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Sex is logically impossible after marriage. You have to overcome the paradox of Not this again, and Hey, where did you learn… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
“Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
“The paradox of identity liberalism is that it paralyzes the capacity to think and act in a way that would actually accomplish… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
Its such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you dont want to be bourgeois, but you want… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Life's a paradox. What you want, you don't get; what you get, you don't enjoy; what you enjoy isn't permanent; what is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
“He was a paradox, a walking contradiction. How he could perform such a violent act without hesitation in one moment and be… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
“Writing about the spiritual life is like making prints from negatives...Often it is the dark forest that makes us speak about the… — Robert Durback Copy Share Image
The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“Beauty is a paradox, every joy must taste of pain, every goodness bears a wound, every faded memory stains the mind” — Poeticmusings Copy Share Image
The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation. — Piero Scaruffi Copy Share Image
We are on a journey of becoming that which we already are. That is the impossible paradox of our lives. — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. — Earl Warren 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 central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to. — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
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
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It's a troubling paradox - I have total control, but only to the extent I have control over myself.” — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful. — Damian Kulash Copy Share Image
“The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Africa and indeed Nigeria has always been a paradox, an inexplicable contraction of a blessed land with a poor masses” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
“When we’re overloaded with opportunities and options, we suffer from what psychologists refer to as the paradox of choice.” — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
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