Home / Topics / Opposites Quotes

Opposites Quotes

Browse 2751 quotes about Opposites.

Opposites Quotes

“So if we look at progress, or evolution, or we look at accomplishment in our life, the key is to be continually moving on, expanding and growing, clarifying, developing and maturing. The opposite would be getting stuck, staying stuck, so there's no maturing, no developing, no accomplishing, no movement.”

Ifs Looks Would Be Action Moving Our Lives Growing Progress Movement Keys Evolution Opposites Stuck Developing Accomplishment Staying Mature Expanding Clarifying

Book:Big Mind, Big Heart: Finding Your Way

Source: Big Mind, Big Heart: Finding Your Way

“The marriages come and go but your friendships stay, which is the opposite of what it used to be, so that there will be people in our lives for 30 years and often it is not your husband, it's your women friends, male friends with whom you come of age.”

People Years Age Used Our Lives Husband Opposites Males Used To Be Comes And Goes Your Husband People In Our Lives

Author:Wendy Wasserstein

“Why do we have to spend our lives striving to be something that we would never want to be, if we only knew what we wanted? Why do we waste our time doing things which... are just the opposite of what we were made for?”

Ifs Want Made Wanted Our Lives Waste Opposites Strive Our Time

Book:No Man Is an Island

Source: No Man Is an Island

“I don't think our lives actually unfold with morals attached to them, or meanings that are easily extracted, or jokes designed to generate sympathy. I wanted to do the opposite - to offer up a life whose meanings can only be perceived through a tangle of desires, confusions, and textural details.”

Thinking Wanted Desire Moral Our Lives Offers Jokes Opposites Details Confusion

Author:Kevin Brockmeier

“It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite: God is passing by. God is in the tremors. Dark is the holiest ground, the glory passing by. In the blackest, God is closest, at work, forging His perfect and right will. Though it is black and we can't see and our world seems to be free-falling and we feel utterly alone, Christ is most present to us.”

Source: One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.”

Helping Talking Technology Our Lives Effects Media Opposites Communicate

Author:Tracy Chapman

“Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was so much better now, but I did miss him. For all the misery he caused, I knew with certainty that he loved us. Those aren't things you can weigh or measure away. ... They're not opposites that cancel each other out. They're both true at the same time.”

Age Father Our Lives Missing Opposites Misery Deny Certainty Alcoholism Drunkenness Aftermath Better Now Reminiscing

Author:Sonia Sotomayor