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“There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.”

Jesus Poverty Birth Connections Opposites Simplicity Ceremony Jesus Birth

Author:Keith O'Brien

“humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.”

Feelings Humor Levels Emotion Fashion Bears Birth Opposites Relation Rising Closest Turmoil Wellspring

Author:Constance Rourke

“My friend Kathy is the only person who'll be halfway honest with me. 'Did you ever see a cowboy film, where someone has been caught by the Indians and tied between two wild stallions, each pulling in opposite directions?' she asked.I nodded mutely.'That's a bit what giving birth is like.”

Giving Persons Has Beens Two Film Bits Honest Birth My Friends Opposites Caught Tied Pulling Cowboy Halfway Giving Birth Stallions

Book:Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities

Source: Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities

“A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.”

Source: Golden Hours with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.”

Want Play Helping Term Records Birth Approach Opposites Leaving Peaceful Helping Someone

Author:Erykah Badu

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”

Giving Beauty Birth Solitude Opposites Originals Absurd Unfamiliar Gregarious

Book:Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories

Source: Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories

“The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?”

Hate Evil Grows Possibility Flower Birth Opposites Seeds Dirt Hopelessness

Author:Robert Cormier

“Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them, all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars. In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth?”

Giving Light Life Is Stars Forever Tree Flower Birth Eternal Opposites Apples Everlasting Rebirth Life Death Reborn Unchanging Apple Trees

Book:The farthest shore

Source: The farthest shore

“The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.”

Source: Man and His Symbols

“Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.”

Life Is Birth Eternal Opposites Stillness Speaks Birth Life

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

“Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object and the subject, the day and the night. It goes on dividing things which are not divided. Neither is the day divided from the night, nor is birth divided from death. They are one energy. But mind goes on dividing everything into polarities, opposites. Nothing is opposite in existence; every contradiction is only apparent. Deep down all contradictions are meeting together.”

Mind Together Night Energy Existence Subjects Objects Goes On Birth Opposites Meetings Contradiction Divided Divides Observers Deep Down Conqueror Dividing Polarity Polar Opposites

Author:Rajneesh

“Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.”

Inspirational Spiritual Birth Opposites Stillness Speaks

Author:Eckhart Tolle