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“To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.”

Want Needs Humans Mean Emotion Adults Opposites Tension Cherish Adore Opposing Reconcile Conflicting Emotions Conflicting Ideas

Author:Stephen Fry

“Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite rules is the ground where I play and write.”

Writing Two Play Space Rooms Opposites Paradox Opposing Space Between

Author:Mu Xin

“Choice is born out of opposites, and the duality of the second chakra is forever challenging us to make choices in a world of opposing sides, of positive and negative energy patterns. Every choice we make contributes a subtle current of our energy to our universe, which is responsive to the influence of human consciousness.”

Source: Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

“The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because it is dual, because it is of two opposing kinds.”

Men World Love Kind Two Passion Love Is Men And Women Opposites Opposing

Book:Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

Source: Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

“The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of an effort to change an unsatisfying situation. Nope. Complaining lets off pressure so that we neither explode with frustration nor feel compelled to take the often risky steps of openly opposing a difficult person or situation. Keeping emotional pressure tolerably low doesn't change problematic circumstances but rather perpetuates them.”

People Thinking Feels Persons Difficult Effort Situation Steps Effects Emotional Circumstances Lows Opposites Pressure Complaining Frustration Status Quo Compelled Opposing Venting

Author:Martha Beck

“Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor. The only stable and productive social system is one that embraces human liberty in its totality, and defends the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive.”

“When you feel destructive, negative emotions like hate and anger arise within you towards the person opposing you; cultivate the opposite state of mind.”

Feels Mind Persons States Hate Emotion Negative Opposites Arise Destructive State Of Mind Within You Opposing Negative Emotions

Author:Sharon Gannon

“There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?”

Thinking Knows Way Earth Perfect Growing Tree Roots Opposites Connected Branches Opposing Upside Down Trunks Symmetry

Book:Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.”

World Believe War I Believe Causes Greater Trouble Argument Opposites Terror Interfere Saddam Hussein Opposing

Author:Dick Cheney