I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Paradoxically, however, a story ceases to be like life on its last page. Life goes on, but the story does not. Its characters have no vitality outside the first page and after the last is only good as the next reader's. - Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy. - Frank Crane
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. - Oscar Wilde
Humans, I finally decided after a few more minutes of watching him, are paradoxically capable of both unattainable depths of kindness and unimaginable depths of cruelty, sometimes within the same body... - Kiley MacLeod
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. - David M. Burns