Explore Quotes on Opposites

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

He didn't take her breath away. Maybe the opposite. But that was okay-that was really good, actually, to be near someone who filled your lungs with air.

There is no quality that we respond to in another that we lack. It might be hidden behind some bad behavior or an old, outdated shadow belief that says we are the exact opposite of what we are seeing in the other person. But I promise you that if you are attracted to a quality in someone else, no matter how great, it also exists inside of you.

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

Everything is known through its opposite.

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

A human life has seasons much as the earth has seasons, each time with its own particular beauty and power. And gift. By focusing on springtime and summer, we have turned the natural process of life into a process of loss rather than a process of celebration and appreciation. Life is neither linear nor stagnant. It is movement from mystery to mystery. Just as a year includes autumn and winter, life includes death, not as an opposite but as an integral part of the way life is made.

For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

The opposite of compromise is character.

Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites. Chaos and Order combined equal balance.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.

Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life's biggest questions, _x000D_ but actually, the opposite is true. _x000D__x000D_ The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to _x000D_ answer your questions, but to question your answers.

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.