Paradox Quotes

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  I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Marriage

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• The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

  Carl Rogers

  Change, Appreciation, Hypnosis

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• The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Enlightenment, Degrees, Contradiction

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Jan 18, 2012

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• You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

  Margaret Atwood

  Attitude, Reality, Trying

  "Attitude". Margaret Atwood's commencement address at the University of Toronto, Canada, www.humanity.org. June 14, 1983.

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• If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules

  Paul Arden

  Breaking Rules, Problem, Solve

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• How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

  Niels Bohr

  Thinking, Progress, Physics

  "Niels Bohr: The Man, His Science, and the World They Changed". Book by Ruth Moore, 1966.

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• A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

  Alan Watts

  Attention, Standing

  Alan Watts (1994). “Talking Zen”, Shambhala Publications

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• So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Life Is, One Thing

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• The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

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  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Money, Long

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  The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Confidence, Wisdom

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• In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Smile, Two

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

  Denis Waitley

  Wisdom, Deep Thought, Trying

  Denis Waitley (1999). “The Psychology of Winning for the 21st Century”, Waitley Institute

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• Everything is paradox. The danger is one-dimensional thinking.

  Lesley Hazleton

  Thinking, Danger

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• The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Reality, Rope

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.50, First Avenue Editions

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• No paradox, no progress.

  Niels Bohr

  Progress

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• 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

  Mean, Absolutes, Relative

  "Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley". Doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard, Chapter 7, 1964.

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• If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

  Lyall Watson

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wise

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• The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

  Shana Alexander

  Eye, Reality, Mind

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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  The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Inspirational, Morning, Business

  "Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg -- Insights For Entrepreneurs" by Steve Tobak, www.cbsnews.com. October 31, 2011.

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• When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Hate, Men, Deep Thought

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• Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

  Michael Stipe

  Confused, Reality, Thinking

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• To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Education, Creativity, Knowledge

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• And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

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• Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Song of Myself " l. 1324 (written 1855)

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• All wisdom ends in paradox.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Ends

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