Best opposites & perfect Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural.”

Natural Perfect Results Opposites Harmony Unions Complementary Perfect Harmony

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.”

May Use Perfect Opposites Ugly Proportion Ugliness

Book:A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Source: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

“I believe I am quite amiable and affable and quite fair, and I've rarely worked with people who are the opposite. Moodiness scares me. What gets to me is unkindness. Madness. Unwarranted cruelty through words. People who scream and shout at work. I hate confrontation and violence. I've done it in the past and I don't want to do it again. I guess I want a perfect world.”

People World Want Believe Done Past Hate I Believe Perfect Violence Fairs Opposites I Hate Madness Cruelty Scare Scream Confrontation Amiable A Perfect World Unkindness Affable Moodiness

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“Zen takes the opposite tack; it holds that true reality is the fundamental unity of mind and matter, inner spirit and external world. When life is viewed in such terms, there can be no success or failure, happiness or unhappiness; life is a whole, and you are simply part of it. There are no dualities, hence there is nothing to worry about. The result is perfect tranquility.”

“You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over.”

World Perfect Knowing Ignorance Opposites Longing Worthy Dues Contradiction Lovable

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“We all know those who draw their boundaries carefully and say, "I'm only human. Nobody's perfect. I accept my limitations." And we know others who take an opposite view and say, "I can do anything I choose to do. It is in my power to change the world." And those are the ones who most often change the world.”

Knows World Humans I Can Can Do Perfect Views Accepting Draws Opposites Boundaries Limitation Changing The World Power To Change Nobody's Perfect Power To Change The World I'm Only Human

Author:Richard Bach

“Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.”

Source: Power Golf

“I tell people this over and over again: don't attach your faith to people. People will come and go. People will disappoint you. People will divulge dark secrets. People will turn out to be the opposite of what you thought. Allah is perfect. His Messenger (peace be upon him) is a perfect example, and the religion is a perfect methodology. Attach yourself to the principles instead of the people. That way no Shaykh going wild or role model going rogue will be able to shake your faith.”

“This is a concept that western culture has forgotten : everything is one! The idea of dichotomy is deeply wrong and nothing is better than a great symbol of China, the Tao, the wheel of yin and yang that represents life. The universe is the harmony of opposites, because there is no water without fire, there is no female with no male, there is no night without day, there is no sun without the moon ... there is no good without evil! This symbol is perfect since the white and black are embracing each other; inside the white there is a black point and inside the black there is a white point.”

“The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.”

Believe I Believe Goal Perfect Imagine Failing Objects Waste Opposites Bigger Reproach Birthright

Author:Seth Godin

“Simply because everything is perfect does not imply there is nothing to be done. Actually, it is pretty much the opposite. There is everything to be done.”

Doe Done Perfect Opposites

Author:Bryan Kest

“We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.”

Believe Done Life Is Found Perfect Enemy Balance Perception Opposites Diminish Perfect Balance

Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“We are walking down the street holding hands. There is a playground at the end of the block, and I run to the swings and I climb on and Henry takes the one next to me facing the opposite direction. And we swing higher and higher passing each other, sometimes in synch and sometimes streaming past each other so fast that it seems we are going to collide. And we laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost or dead or far away. Right now we are here and nothing can mar our perfection or steal the joy of this perfect moment.”

“The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity. Any time I was feeling low, I'd naturally start to remember other times I felt that way, a hit parade of humiliations coming one after another to my mind.”

Way Mind Long Said Done Feelings Past Remember Felt Perfect Stupid Lows Opposites Clarity Recalls Humiliation Embarrassment Parades Stupid Things Feeling Low Picture Perfect

Book:Little Brother

Source: Little Brother

“[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.”

May Two Life Is Sides My Own Perfect Written Terrible Opposites Comic Two Things Coins

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.”

Perfect Offers Bed Opposites Eternity Stillness Glimpse Default Inertia Drawbacks Inactivity Stasis

Book:Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir

Source: Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir

“Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.”

Knows World Kind Might Would Be Choices Courses Peace Perfect Mystery Danger Creatures Solutions Opposites Philosopher Paradox Imperfect Finding Peace A Perfect World Imperfect World

Book:Duke Elric

Source: Duke Elric

“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

“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

“I fell in love with skateboarding because it was individual; there were no teams, there were no captains, there was nothing to perfect. No style that had to be measured. It was completely opposite of what I saw in so many sports. It was creative. And to this day, that's what I love, that's always kept me back to it because it's endless creation.”

Individual Sports Perfect Creative Saws Team Style Creation Opposites Endless This Day Captains Skateboarding

Author:Rodney Mullen

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