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“Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.”

Two Real Seems Night Depends Opposites Two Things Logos Eros

Author:Wallace Stevens

“Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of the other begins.”

Depends Demand Opposites Extremes Scales Cease Momentum Beam Equilibrium Cheapness

Book:A treatise on political economy

Source: A treatise on political economy

“We must never put our dreams of success as God's purpose for us; His purpose may be exactly the opposite. His purpose is that I depend on HIM and in HIS power NOW. His end is the process. It is the process, not the end, which is glorifying to God....His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. We have nothing to do with the 'afterwards' of obedience. If we have a further end in view, we do not pay sufficient attention to the immediate present; if we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment as it comes is precious.”

Ifs May Ends Moments Dream Purpose Process Realizing Views Pay Attention Minutes Depends Opposites Obedience Sufficient Our Dreams

Author:Oswald Chambers

“The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.”

People Hands Government Choices Principles Democracy Fate Depends Authority Tradition Opposites Absolutes Restraint Sovereignty Absolute Power Legality

Author:Lord Acton

“I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.”

Persons I Can Situation Depends Opposites Flags Monogamy

Author:Sting

“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.”

People Ifs May Ideas Ends Facts Wisdom Reality Faces Used Values Results Struggle Achieve Depends Opposites Worthless Personal Relationships

Author:Thomas Merton

“Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.”

Way Looks Two Ends Sometimes Evil Sides Depends Gun Opposites One Way Good And Evil Coins Another Way Two Sides Toss

Book:Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Source: Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

“Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you." You said the other day life was long," I shot back. "Which is it?" It's both," she said, shrugging. "It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing." Nothing can be two opposite things at once," I said. "It's impossible." No," she replied, squeezing my hand, "what's impossible is that we actually think it could be anything OTHER than that.”

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Uniting two halves of one soul is inevitable, but timing depends upon your level of spirituality. When the time is ripe, true soul mates find one another even if they are worlds apart— whether physically, on opposite sides of the globe, or spiritually, with contrasting lifestyles and backgrounds. Here’s wishing you the courage to keep growing so that you may know – or continue to know – the blessing of oneness.”

“Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.”

Life Feelings Body Consciousness Type Depends Opposites Response Evoke Polarity

Book:Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything, First Series

Source: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything, First Series

“Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they. But Romeo and Juliet, if a wall be built between them, do not remain idiotically pressing their faces against its opposite sides like the magnet and the filings with the card. Romeo soon finds a circuitous way, by scaling the wall or otherwise, of touching Juliet's lips directly. With the filings the path is fixed; whether it reaches the end depends on accidents. With the lover it is the end which is fixed, the path may be modified indefinitely.”

Ifs Way Want Life May Ends Faces Moving Sides Lines Path Wall Depends Lovers Built Opposites Lips Obstacles Accidents Cards Fixed Touching Magnet Juliet Filing

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“When two persons open up to each other just as they are, friendship grows. When two persons are ready to drop their masks, they have taken a tremendous step towards religiousness. So love, friendship, anything that helps you to drop the mask, is taking you towards religion. But the pseudo-religions have done just the opposite. They are against love. You can understand now, why they are against love: because love will destroy the personality, and the pseudo-religion depends on your personality.”

Love Persons Two Done Helping Grows Love Is Steps Taken Love You Ready Personality Depends Opposites Mask Friendship Love Pseudo Against Love

Author:Rajneesh

“It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite points of view. How we shall experience it depends upon the way we shall come up against it: God does not change; it is man's moral state that changes. The wrath of God is a figure of speech to denote God's unchanging opposition to sin; it is His righteous love operating to destroy evil. It is not evil that will have the last word, but good; not sorrow, but joy; not hate, but love.”