Opposite Quotes

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The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love. — Steven Pressfield
The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when u simply don't bother about that person! — Amish Tripathi
In face of this modern nihilism, Christians are often lacking in courage. We tend to give the impression that we will hold on to the… — Francis Schaeffer
As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable “something else,” but now it was the opposite. Here,… — Laini Taylor
It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite:… — Ann Voskamp
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers,… — C.S. Lewis
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. — Peter Kreeft
Rage is the opposite of thought, whoever has put you in this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have… — Sister Souljah
This is what birds see. Only they're free and safe. The very opposite of me. — Suzanne Collins
Sometimes they do things to make me do the opposite of what they think, I think, they think, I am going to do. — James Dashner
It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life.… — Elie Wiesel
Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much. — Gregory David Roberts
My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to… — Arianna Huffington
The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our… — Steven Pressfield
You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth. — Niels Bohr
and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive… — Annie Proulx
My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and… — Ghassan Kanafani
...you found you were saying yes when you meant no, and “We’ve got to be together in this thing” when you meant the very opposite… — Richard Yates
Lesson for the day, kids: hangovers are real, and they are the opposite of fun. — Jeff Sampson
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect. — Lawrence Durrell
I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of darkness in which… — Julian Barnes
Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be… — Elbert Hubbard
If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism… — Alain de Botton
I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self… — Parker J. Palmer
To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a… — Edmund Burke

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