Opposites Quotes

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  The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  US News & World Report, October 27, 1986.

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• If we can stay with the tension of
  opposites long enough —sustain it,
  be true to it—we can sometimes
  become vessels within which the
  divine opposites come together and
  give birth to a new reality.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Reality, Long, Giving

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  I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Strong, Hate

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

  Niels Bohr

  Education, Teacher, Learning

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• Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.

  Bob Ross

  Dark, Light, Giving

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• The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.

  Giordano Bruno

  Order, Diversity, Perfection

  Giordano Bruno (1962). “Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues”

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• I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Positive Attitude, Anticipation

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• What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Science, Political

  "Sceptical Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. 12: Free Thought and Official Propaganda, 1928.

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  The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.

  Gary Zukav

  Love, Fear, Hate

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Feb 25, 2015

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• It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

  Eric Hoffer

  Soul, Tension

  Eric Hoffer (1969). “Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959”

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• God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

  Rumi

  Faith, Attitude, Mean

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both

  Joyce Meyer

  Powerful, Ministers, Preacher

  Twitter post from Dec 11, 2013

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• You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.

  Hermann Hesse

  Laughter, Pain, Childhood

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mind, Literature, World

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• Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

  Louis Aragon

  Meaningful, Black And White, Errors

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• Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance when in reality it is the opposite. When we can recognize all our good qualities as well as our faults with neutrality, we can start to appreciate ourselves as we would a dear friend and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect. To embrace the journey towards our full potential we need to become our own loving teacher and coach. Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings we develop true regard for ourselves and our life will become sacred.

  Rajneesh

  Teacher, Healing, Journey

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• I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

  Keren Ann

  Complete Opposites

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• We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

  Tracy Chapman

  Technology, Media, Talking

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• It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Moving, Simple

  "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

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• I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.

  Judith Jamison

  Fall, Soul, Solitude

  Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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• To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Knows, One Thing

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• Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Buddhist, Attitude, Balance

  " Zen and the Art of Systems Analysis : Meditations on Computer Systems Development" by Patrick McDermott, (p. xix), 2002.

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• The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Inspirational, Funny, Hope

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 24, 2010

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• Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Inspirational, Giving Up

  "Citadelle or The Wisdom of the Sands"by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (p. 152), 1948.

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  Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Courage, Thinking

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