Contradiction Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

“Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

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“Not to mention that I have finally arrived at that age where a woman starts to question whether the wisest way to get over…

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“The Buddha taught that all human suffering is rooted in desire. Don't we all know this to be true? Any of us who have…

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“And while [we] do have possibilities that are vast and magnificent and almost infinite in scope, it's important to remember that our choice-rich lives…

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Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

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If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary…

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I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We…

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Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I…

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“Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else.”

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The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the…

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I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to,…

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“I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular. The planet is circular, and so is the planet around the…

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The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

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It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a…

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Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

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“The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance,…

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There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the…

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To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive in mathematics…

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I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

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The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what…

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Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the…

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That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will…

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The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and…

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