I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
The Paradox Of Living In The Moment is -
How To Be Happy Today AND Prepare For Tomorrow
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
- Erich Fromm
It's one of life's great paradoxes ...
Accepting with gratitude whatever life throws at us
is critical to happiness.
Yet without a goal and commitment, life loses much of its value.
The best we can do in the face of this paradox
is to play to win, but be cheerful in defeat
and ready to play again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am simultaneously ME - an independent BEing
of free-will and bold courage,
and ME - an integral and inseparable element
of the web of timeless creation.
I am a paradox - a duality -
and yet an entirely unified ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery,
a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a
spring of capital truths,
and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
- Paul Valery
Living Into the Great Paradox,
I strive toward my vision,
while accepting gratefully whatever life serves up.
I work to bring about my vision of the future,
which is based on my value system of what is right,
just, noble, compassionate, generous, humane, peaceful, and loving.
Simultaneously, I accept that my vision
is based on only my opinions and prejudices,
and I honor all points of view and value systems,
no matter how different from my own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is a fine line between perseverance and insanity.
At what point have you tried your best,
and it's time to do something different?
It's a balance - a paradox.
If you get in the habit of giving up
as soon as something gets difficult,
your life won't work,
but if you keep tilting at windmills -
madly trying the same thing again and again,
your life also won't work.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
- Galileo Galilei
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling
as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
- Shana Alexander
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little
careless of his life even in order to keep it.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Most marriages recognize this paradox:
Passion destroys passion;
we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
- John Fowles
If the Great Way perishes, there will be morality and duty.
When cleverness and knowledge arise, great lies will flourish.
When relatives fall out with one another,
there will be filial duty and love.
When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
- Lao Tzu
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute,
and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes
beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
- T. S. Eliot
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox.
Now we have some hope of making progress.
- Niels Bohr
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes,
by repetition, the truth in the heart.
- John Grierson
That's the great paradox of living on this earth,
that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well.
If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
- Kathy Mattea
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am,
then I can change.
- Carl Rogers
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem.
We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
- Harold Evans
The paradox of education is precisely this -
that as one begins to become conscious one begins to
examine the society in which he is being educated.
- James A. Baldwin
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life
and just as only great souls are exposed to passions
it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes,
which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.
The very first condition of lasting happiness is that
a life should be full of purpose,
aiming at something outside self.
- Hugo Black
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life,
and beyond which life cannot rise.
And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive,
and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
- Jack London
Play not with paradoxes.
That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others
may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead
to the quality of things.
- George Eliot
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
- Edward Teller
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance,
yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early,
but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
- Ogden Nash
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the
general framework of history,
so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions,
we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
- Fernand Braudel
