Best conflict & contradiction Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.”

People Thinking Hard Felt Rooms Fiction Conflict Confusion Journalism Contradiction Internals Capture Ambivalence Internal Conflict

Author:Amy Waldman

“A healing journey into the inner conflicts and contradictions that separate spirit from self.”

Self Spirit Healing Journey Conflict Contradiction Inner Conflict

Author:Armand DiMele

“The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or else a life in the Beyond, which is destined only for angels. But God loves human beings more than the angels.”

Humans Human Beings Half Conflict Angel Proof God Love Contradiction Destined Unendurable

Author:Carl Jung

“When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.”

World Doe Individual Half Conflict Conscious Opposites Contradiction Torn

Author:Carl Jung

“Now, it's high time for all those that have an influence on the parties with the conflict to understand that it is in the interest of everybody to put an end to this conflict. But this kind of persuasion, this kind of intense pressure, I believe it's my duty to do, even if I recognize that the contradictions and the different perceptions of interest that exist are making it very difficult.”

Believe Kind Different I Believe Difficult Interest Party Influence Duty Conflict Perception Intense Contradiction Persuasion

Author:Antonio Guterres

“The novel is a big space, and a lot can happen. Just think about the parts of your life. How do we account for our own contradictions? The only way to understand them is to let them exist, as truths that indicate something about character. People are built of elements that don't fit together - and the conflict of that is their essential drive.”

People Thinking Character Together Novel Fit Conflict Contradiction

Author:Rachel Kushner

“We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.”

Lying Conflict Contradiction Falsehood Disguise Dishonesty Duplicity

Book:Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works

“The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find.”

Hard New York Scene Conflict Contradiction Gallery

Author:Jerry Saltz

“why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.”

People Want Moving Given Hurt Emotion Situation Walking Battle Conflict Legs Contradiction Internals Love Hurt

Book:The Other Side of the Story

Source: The Other Side of the Story

“If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.”

Ifs Might Particular Conflict Patterns Cease Contradiction

Book:Commentaries on Living

Source: Commentaries on Living

“The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable. Of course an artist can lose his way, but even his mistakes are interesting provided they are sincere. For they represent the reality of his inner life, of the peregrinations and struggle into which the external world has thrown him.”

Ifs World Way Reality Artist Courses Loses Interesting Mistake Struggle Movement Duty Directors Conflict Tasks Contradiction Thrown Sincere Acceptable Inner Life

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“Love is an act of faith, not an exchange. Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain by our side.”

Grows Sides Love Is Conflict Contradiction Making Love Love Grows

Author:Paulo Coelho

“You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers discontinuities in the data, perhaps, or in one's own thinking; then the act of writing forces you to work harder to resolve these contradictions.”

Thinking Writing Problem Science Force Interesting Subjects Hard Work Conflict Harder Data Contradiction Resolve Most Interesting Work Harder Discontinuity

Author:Anthony F. C. Wallace

“Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.”

Men Two Self Understanding Victory Conflict Insight Confusion Contradiction

Author:Vernon Howard

“...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.”

Form Choices Conflict Misery Confusion Inevitable Contradiction Free Will

Book:Krishnamurti's Notebook

Source: Krishnamurti's Notebook

“I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective and the subjective, are actually united, when the tormenting conflicts or contradictions between my consciousness and my body will have been factually resolved or discarded.”

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