53 Quotes About Opposite

We all have traits that make us who we are. For some, these traits are considered positives, but for others they’re deemed as flaws. There’s no one way to be or act, and you shouldn’t feel bad about having different qualities than someone else. Life is full of challenges and opportunities, and it takes both courage and flexibility to take advantage of both Read more

As long as you know your strengths and weaknesses, you can find the perfect balance that suits your personality. The best quotes below will help you learn to live with your personal preferences without crippling yourself.

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When you meet someone so different from yourself, in a good way, you don't even have to kiss to have fireworks go off. It's like fireworks in your heart all the time. I always wondered, do opposites really attract? Now I know for sure they do. I'd grown up going to the library as often as most people go to the grocery store. Jackson didn't need to read about exciting people or places. He went out and found them, or created excitement himself if there wasn't any to be found. The things I like are pretty simple. Burning CDs around themes, like Songs to Get You Groove On and Tunes to Fix a Broken Heart; watching movies; baking cookies; and swimming. It's like I was a salad with a light vinaigrette, and Jackson was a platter of seafood Cajun pasta. Alone, we were good. Together, we were fantastic. Lisa Schroeder
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold...
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. John Steinbeck
Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it...
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Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight. Criss Jami
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IN THE HANDS OF MANHe who creates a poison, also has the cure. He who creates a virus, also has the antidote. He who creates chaos, also has the ability to create peace. He who sparks hate, also has the ability to transform it to love. He who creates misery, also has the ability to destroy it with kindness. He who creates sadness, also has the ability to to covert it to happiness. He who creates darkness, can also be awakened to produce illumination. He who spreads fear, can also be shaken to spread comfort. Any problems created by the left hand of man, Can also be solved with the right, For he who manifests anything, Also has the ability to Destroy it. Suzy Kassem
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights...
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As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence. Alcibiades
Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do...
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Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive. Elisabeth Elliot
Experience is the opposite of education.
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Experience is the opposite of education. Ashly Lorenzana
Cold feet under a warm blanket, steam over an empty...
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Cold feet under a warm blanket, steam over an empty mug--rain splatters on dry window pane--open journals of closed memories... tears of laughter and joy of pain... schmaltz of diametric morning. Val Uchendu
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Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each? . H. Rider Haggard
...all that we do is governed by the law of...
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...all that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite. Tony Parsons
The reason as to why we are attracted to our...
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The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves. Kamand Kojouri
Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life: You will...
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Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life: You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself. Kamand Kojouri
Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.
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Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction. Criss Jami
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To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience. In our eagerness to get rid of the legalistic doctrine of works we have thrown out the baby with the bath and gotten rid of obedience as well. A.W. Tozer
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The actual, expanded consciousness, reality of our planet is that all of life is LOVE; our very existence is LOVE. Everything that exists is just varying degrees of this LOVE; polar absolutes do not exist. Good versus evil is pure illusion. Even the most seemingly “negative” person with ill intent is still in the spectrum of love. Alaric Hutchinson
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She was born under the sign of Gemini. And that stands for the good and evil twin. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde both hiding and residing inside her heart. Her good twin was not bad at all. But her evil twin was even better, and showed up to be way too fatal! Ana Claudia Antunes
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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. Michael Moorcock
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If you want to know how negative you are, pay attention to how much you hate negativity in other people. Fragile, artificial positivity needs always to be surrounded by more positivity in order to stay positive, but the ability to be positive, happy, and even, at times, appreciative around 'negative people' is the mark of real positivity. Criss Jami
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As he stood in the darkness, his eyes glistened and that’s when I knew my light found its traction. Dominic Riccitello
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When Sally stopped crying, she found herself alone, the cold draft of the window at her neck, and on both sides, the rows of doors went on and on, diminishing to nothing, the end. 'What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight, oh.' What glories. Mathilde came. And though she appeared to be the.. same sweet girl Sally had been afraid of, she was not. Sally saw the flint in her. Mathilde can save Lotto from his own laziness, Sally thought. But here they were, a year later, and he was still ordinary. The chorus caught in her throat. A stranger hurrying as fast as he could over the icy sidewalks looked in. He saw a circle of singing people bathed in the clean, white light from a tree, and his heart did a soumersault. And the image stayed with him, it merged with him even as he came home to his own children, who were already asleep in their beds, to his wife crossly putting together the tricycle without the screwdriver he'd run out to borrow. It remained long after his children ripped open their gifts and abandoned their toys and puddles of paper and grew too old for them and left their house and parents and childhoods, so that he and his wife gaped at each other in bewilderment as to how it had happened so terribly swiftly. All those years, the singers in the soft light in the basement apartment crystalized in his mind, became the very idea of what happiness should look like. Lauren Groff
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Without opposition, there could be no creation. All life would cease without resistance. Emotions also have their polar opposites: attraction — repulsion, love — hate, aggression — meekness, and mercy — callousness. Kilroy J. Oldster
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[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who does not climb the mountain of Christ does indeed fall into the abyss of Buddha. G.k. Chesterton
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God created… light anddark, heaven and hell–science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite.“ Including matter itself, antimatter Dan Brown
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So for me the essence of life is very simple. It is just this, awareness that allows us to trust in our own truths (without feeling any need to convince others), living gracefully amidst the chaos, maintaining a sense of balance (not being pulled around by the supposed opposites or false paradoxes), and being able to choose how we direct our lives. Julia Woodman
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Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect. Lundy Bancroft
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Friendship isn't partying with a group of people to get drunk or chatting with him/her once a week, it's exactly the opposite. Friends make sure you get home safely and they help you when you need it, no matter the scenario. They don't care about what clothes you wear or what you look like, and they don't last for a day. Real friends are more interested in what direction your life is headed rather than your popularity. They care about what you have to say and how you feel, and once you meet this person you'll know it without having to think twice. Morgan Tang
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If you will look about you (which most people won't do), " says Sergeant Cuff, "you will see that the nature of a man's tastes is, most times, as opposite as possible to the nature of a man's business. Wilkie Collins
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If something you did causes failure, shouldn't the exact opposite of what you did bring success? Jessica Brody
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Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn't turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination. Richelle E. Goodrich
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And the geography of the thing--the geography of them--was completely and hopelessly wrong. Jennifer E. Smith
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To a blind man, pawn shop and porn shop are one. To an unintelligent man, oversleeping and sleeping over are opposites. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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The rough must always accompany the smooth. Without one or the other one learns nothing about oneself. Solange Nicole
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A Martial Artist may become A professional fighter but not every Fighter is capable of becoming A martial artist. Martial Arts are about restoration of physical and spiritual balance and fluidity; they are about observing restraints and 'setting example'. Every practice session is A reminder of the play of opposites (yin and yang), .. .. Soke Behzad Ahmadi
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Love has no opposite. Hate, fear, are not love’s opposites;they are its denial. Ivan M. Granger
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Words were his delight; Hers, a gay gracefulness Of dancing and moving. But when to the place Of deep loving (Starlight at midnight) At last they came, Their full communion And consummation, Their complete sphere, Was stillness for her, Silence for him. Theodore Spencer
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The universe maintained a balance, moving first one way and then the other in a forever equalizing of opposites. Diana Lanham
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It is incorrect to assume that you cannot find any good in the point of view directly opposite yours. Daniel Willey
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On Virtue — When people want to describe the hideousness of a person or object, they may use the phrase ‘ugly as sin’. But the phrase should be ‘ugly as virtue’. Sin isn’t ugly. It’s highly attractive! That’s why so many people flock to it. Marsha Hinds
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What a nuisance is the friend who must have this and that, whose likes and hates are infinite, with bitter and loud voiced complaint about the whole of circumstance? How pleasant are the truly great who, wanting nothing, are content with anything. Accepting all things in a world of illusion as born of cause-effect they live in a mind above the opposites, and we call them great because they do so. Christmas Humphreys
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Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each other out if they come in contact. Keeping antimatter isolated from matter is a challenge, of course, because everything on earth is made of matter. The samples have to be stored without ever touching anything at all–even air. Dan Brown
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As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire. Unknown
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A beam or pillar can be used to batter down a city wall, but it is no good for stopping up a little hole - this refers to a difference in function. Thoroughbreds like Qiji and Hualiu could gallop a thousand li in one day, but when it came to catching rats they were no match for the wildcat or the weasel - this refers to a difference in skill. The horned owl catches fleas at night and can spot the tip of a hair, but when daylight comes, no matter how wide it opens its eyes, it cannot see a mound or a hill - this refers to a difference in nature. Now do you say, that you are going to make Right your master and do away with Wrong, or make Order your master and do away with Disorder? If you do, then you have not understood the principle of heaven and earth or the nature of the ten thousand things. This is like saying that you are going to make Heaven your master and do away with Earth, or make Yin your master and do away with Yang. Obviously it is impossible. Zhuangzi
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That all opposites–such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and death–are so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable, still strikes most of us as hard to believe. But this is only because we accept as real the boundary line between the opposites. It is, recall, the boundaries themselves which create the seeming existence of separate opposites. To put it plainly, to say that "ultimate reality is a unity of opposites" is actually to say that in ultimate reality there are no boundaries. Anywhere. Ken Wilber
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All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sense of its difficulties, are aware that the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking part of the truth for the whole. It might be plausibly maintained that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied; and that if either could have been made to take the other’s views in addition to its own, little more would have been needed to make its doctrine correct. John Stuart Mill
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-There must be balance. Action and reaction. Chaos and order. Death and life. Lanie Bross
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Everything is balanced. Everything physical (matter/energy) goes back and forth in balanced circles, cycles, or the equivalent. Birth-death, old-young, big-small, strong-weak, start-stop, up-down, rich-poor, beginning-end, fast-slow, hot-cold, pain-pleasure, win-lose, day-night, full-empty, high-low, in-out, success-failure, united-divided, give-receive, creation-destruction, on-off, positive-negative, etc. Positive and negative forces moving in balance are the physical universe. . Michael Smith
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It's usually our opposites who complement us best, because they're the only ones who can balance us out. Rachel Hollis
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. Thomas Carlyle
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Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they didn’t really mix well. Raquel Cepeda
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Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge. David Halberstam
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Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites it is simply flowing between them. June Singer