Yin And Yang Quotes

• Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil...the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe.

  Confucius

  Strong, Light, Opposites

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• Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs - Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; whats pleasure without pain?

  Angelina Jolie

  Pain, Men, Balance

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• The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Heart, Fire

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.92, Shambhala Publications

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• Countless words
  count less
  than the silent balance
  between yin and yang

  Laozi

  Balance, Yang, Silent

  Laozi (2005). “Tao te ching: a new translation & commentary”

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• The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Evil, Yang, World

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• The light is the left hand of darkness.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Light, Hands, Darkness

  "The Left Hand of Darkness". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969.

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• The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to yin and yang. Yin and yang give birth to all things... The complete whole is the complete whole. So also is any part the complete whole... But forget about understanding and harmonizing and making all things one. The universe is already a harmonious oneness; just realize it.

  Laozi

  Oneness, Giving, Understanding

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• Yin and Yang are one vital force -- the primordial aura.

  Wang Yangming

  Yang, Auras, Force

  Yangming Wang (1916). “The Philosophy of Wang Yang-ming”

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• It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dark, Light, Hands

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.182, Penguin

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• There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not yin and yang that do this, it is your heart that makes it so.

  Zhuangzi

  Heart, Heaven, Yang

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• This is a concept that western culture has forgotten : everything is one! The idea of dichotomy is deeply wrong and nothing is better than a great symbol of China, the Tao, the wheel of yin and yang that represents life. The universe is the harmony of opposites, because there is no water without fire, there is no female with no male, there is no night without day, there is no sun without the moon ... there is no good without evil! This symbol is perfect since the white and black are embracing each other; inside the white there is a black point and inside the black there is a white point.

  Tiziano Terzani

  Moon, Night, Opposites

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• There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang

  Lisa See

  Yang, True Meaning

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• Will and I are yin and yang. He's all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and I'm all earth. I'm here to ground him, and he's here to help me fly.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Sky, Yang, Earth

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• You make sexiness strong by balancing it out: something familiar with something unfamiliar, something masculine with something feminine, something streamlined with something rococo. It's a Yin and Yang. Women are made of layers, your mood shifts, no one is neither one extreme nor the other.

  Michael Kors

  Strong, Yang, Layers

  "Michael Kors Talks Kim Kardashian and Bar Mitzvah Fashion in Shanghai". Interview with Alice Pfeiffer, www.elle.com. May 14, 2014.

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• So my message is in whichever realm, be it going into space or going into the deep sea, you have to balance the yin and yang of caution and boldness, risk aversion and risk taking, fear and fearlessness. No great accomplishment takes place, whether it be a movie or a deep ocean expedition, or a space mission, without a kind of dynamic equipoise between the two. Luck is not a factor. Hope is not a strategy. Fear is not an option.

  James Cameron

  Ocean, Sea, Two

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• What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Taoism, Yang

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• Stillness and action are relative, not absolute, principles. It is important to find a balance of yin and yang, not just in qigong, but in everyday life. In movement, seek stillness and rest. In rest, be mindful and attentive.

  Ken Cohen

  Qigong, Everyday, Balance

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• When you expect something, when you aim at something, right there you dilute your energy; you split your energy, you split your attention and it becomes more than the place of yin and yang. You do not only divide, but you create the problem.

  Taizan Maezumi

  Attention, Yang, Splits

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• Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all about yin and yang. And that's not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant.

  Fran Drescher

  Pain, Order, Chinese

  Fran Drescher (2002). “Cancer Schmancer”

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• Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Interesting, Parent

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• Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.

  Seth Godin

  Journey, Talking, People

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.63, Penguin

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• The physical universe was created when Oneness became duality, and we can see this duality, this yin and yang, everywhere in the universe, in every atom, every action, and in every function of the human body. Yin and yang are manifest everywhere, except at the very center of being, the perfect point of balance, at that infinite moment where the future becomes the past.

  Robert Tisserand

  Spiritual, Past, Oneness

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• Responsibility and Trust -- these two are like Yin and Yang, together perfectly complete, and each one requiring the presence of the other. The next time you mistrust someone, consider this -- does that person feel responsible for you in any way? If the answer is yes, then go ahead and trust them. Very likely, they are looking out for your best interest.

  Vera Nazarian

  Responsibility, Two, Together

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• The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Feminist, Feminism, Males

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• I'll believe it if I see it" for dogs translates to "I'll believe it if I smell it." So don't bother yelling at them; it's the energy and scent they pay attention to, not your words.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Believe, Yelling

  Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier (2007). “Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life”, p.11, Crown Archetype

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