“Building your "dream life" is filled with things that can feel like the opposite of a dream: Mistakes Delays Starting over Failure The building part is actually more of a rebuilding that is a continual process. The building is not linear in nature but far more interesting. You might start a creative dream, take the "next step", and find yourself completely bored, dissatisfied, or just not inspired.” FeelsDreamMightLife IsNextProcessInterestingMistakeStepsCreativeBuildingOppositesFilledInspiredStartingBoredYour DreamsFinding YourselfDelayStarting OverLinearNext StepsDissatisfiedRebuilding Author:Sark
“I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.” PeopleWayStillsMotherDesireGirlBornMy OwnStepsGenerationsTaughtDaughterOppositesMiseryRaisedChineseMy DaughterBitternessUp And DownStairs Author:Amy Tan
“Nothing is ever solved, or created, by standing still. Movement is the process of the Universe. So move. Do something. Anything. But do not stand still. Do not fence sit. Put your foot down on one side or the other, swing the opposite leg over and start walking. You'll know before you take ten steps if you're going in the right direction.” IfsKnowsStillsMovingUniverseProcessSidesInspiringStepsFeetMovementWalkingTenStandingOppositesLegsSwingsFenceRight DirectionStanding Still Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“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.” PeopleThinkingFeelsPersonsDifficultEffortSituationStepsEffectsEmotionalCircumstancesLowsOppositesPressureComplainingFrustrationStatus QuoCompelledOpposingVenting Author:Martha Beck
“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.” PeopleGivingShouldMayMeanRealValuesCoursesLostGrowthStepsSecuritySafeDemandGiving UpOppositesPatternsSurrenderFamiliarTemporaryNew Words Author:Gail Sheehy
“Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.” IfsThinkingWorldHeartRealityJoyWonderStepsPathFlowerWalkingMindfulnessMachinesOppositesInfiniteEngagedVillageEnabling Author:Nhat Hanh
“I had always been an overachiever, so I felt I could just "wing it," reasoning that if I don't set clear, written goals I wouldn't have to account for anything if I failed. Now I'm the opposite! I am always setting goals, and I get very specific about where I'm going and take the time to learn the steps needed to take to get there.” IfsFeltGoalStepsClearWrittenNeededOppositesAccountsWingsSettingSettingsReasoningSetting GoalsOverachieverWritten Goals Author:Edwina Findley
“Donald Trump as a figurehead is the opposite of that - he's regression, he's taking a step backward.” StepsTrumpOppositesRegression Author:Ansel Elgort
“The millennial that lives in a very red state might not even realize that their congressman thinks that they have no constituents that feel the opposite of what the president or they are doing. This is the time to step up and push back.” ThinkingFeelsStatesMightPresidentRealizingStepsRedOppositesStep UpConstituentsCongressmanMillennials Author:Marty Walsh
“If you can hold the tension of opposite points of view in your intimate relationships with people, instead of making somebody right and somebody wrong, you are really taking an evolutionary step.” PeopleIfsViewsStepsOppositesPoint Of ViewIntimateTensionIntimate Relationships Author:Connie Zweig
“Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.” PeopleIfsFirstsKindMightRealizingViewsCommonEffortStepsFiguresHabitOppositesPoint Of ViewCuriousBe KindWorthwhileFirst StepsOpen MindedBeing Open Minded Author:Viggo Mortensen
“What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!” PeopleWorldHas BeensLightTogetherHouseSidesStepsThis WorldOppositesTownsRaysNeverthelessOutlawPowderMercuryBroomsRays Of LightConnexion Book:Bleak House Source: Bleak House
“When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you” MayMadeLyingBehindsStepsChildhoodCrossesOppositesWoodsTeenagerBridgesShoreAdulthoodBehind You Book:Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly Source: Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly
“In face of this modern nihilism, Christians are often lacking in courage. We tend to give the impression that we will hold on to the outward forms whatever happens, even if God really is not there. But the opposite ought to be true of us, so that people can see that we demand the truth of what is there and that we are not dealing merely with platitudes. In other words, it should be understood that we take this question of truth and personality so seriously that if God were not there we would be among the first of those who had the courage to step out of the queue.” PeopleIfsGivingShouldFirstsHappensWould BeChristianFacesFormStepsModernPersonalityOughtDemandUnderstoodOppositesImpressionBeing TrueLackingNihilismWhatever HappensPlatitudesQueues Author:Francis Schaeffer
“This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the black wood and decide what you’ll trade for power. For the opposite of weakness, which is not strength but hardness. I am a trap, but so is everything. Pick your price. I am a huckster with a hand in your pocket. I am freedom and I will eat your heart.” WorldHeartMeanHandsPainBlackDealsStepsThis WorldPicksWeaknessOppositesTradeWoodsPocketsTrapsBargainsEvery StepHardnessEat Your Heart Author:Catherynne M. Valente
“There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes a false step, never shies. If there is a river or fjord to cross (and we shall meet with many) you will see him plunge in at once, just as if he were amphibious, and gain the opposite bank.” IfsAnimalStepsRocksGainsRiversCrossesOppositesHorseStormSnowCourageousSoberPlungeGlaciersFjords Book:EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEYS Source: EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEYS
“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.” LovePersonsTwoDoneHelpingGrowsLove IsStepsTakenLove YouReadyPersonalityDependsOppositesMaskFriendship LovePseudoAgainst Love Author:Rajneesh