Quotation Explorer - 'Opposites'

Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.
Humans are odd. They think order and chaos are somehow opposites and try to control what won't be. But there is grace in their failings. - The Vision
We need dualities or opposites to appreciate, understandand recognize value and distinction in our lives. If we did not have bitter, we could not appreciate sweet.... - I. Alan Appt
Creativity is a clashing of opposites. - Graham Fink
Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean? - Nipsey Russell
Opposites attract in physics. In life, like attracts like. Kindness attracts kindness. Greed attracts greed. Love attracts love. If you don't like what you're attracting, change who you are. - Connie R. Clay
Physiologically, the union of two opposites is a pleasurable affair. Why should the psyche be any different? - Anthony Marais
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. - Marc Chagall
...all that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.; - Tony Parsons
Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. - Andy Warhol
Every act has both good and evil results. Every act in life yields pairs of opposites in its results. The best we can do is lean toward the light, toward the harmonious relationships that come from compassion with suffering, from understanding the other person. - Joseph Campbell
Love and hate are not opposites; they are siblings birthed by obsession. - Steve Maraboli
Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other. - Haim G. Ginott
"Opposites are cures for opposites.
Opposites attract only in non-living things like seen in a positively-charged cation and negatively-charged anion; but in a living beings, the attraction is ONLY seen in between the same/similar character, positive or negative, people. - Anuj Somany
Light or dark, happy or sad, black or white, right or wrong there are only two strong options, the opposites and others are weak. - Ben Bereng
To a blind man, pawn shop and porn shop are one. To an unintelligent man, oversleeping and sleeping over are opposites. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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
The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves. - Kamand Kojouri
Love is the unification of two equal opposites to create new love." ~ - Amunhotep El Bey
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