Life Duality Quotes

#1. The first axiom of the family vacation is that someone, possibly everyone, will get sick.

Marni Jackson

#2. The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.

Laozi

#3. There is a duality to South Africa, as in all of life itself, that is evident, and as stark as the inequality among its citizens

Diane Brown

#4. When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

Pablo Picasso

#5. When everything looks the same on the outside, yet everything has changed on the inside, we break. We break in half.
This is the duality of loss.

Christina Rasmussen

#6. The language for attaining Liberation [moksha] is beyond duality. The language for worldly life is with duality.

Dada Bhagwan

#7. I believe that their is a duality to the purpose of our life, and it is LOVE and CREATION. To LOVE the life we have - authentically and unconditionally, while we CREATE the best life we can imagine - actively and persistently. This is what L.I.F.E. (Living Inspired & Fulfilled Everyday) is about!

Hal Elrod

#8. In life you find pleasure. In life you find pain. Pain and pleasure is an example of the duality in life. Enjoy them both, they are part of the ride. The key is to not turn the pain into something else - regret.

J.R. Rim

#9. Life is light and consciousness. Beyond this world and other worlds, beyond time and space and dimension, beyond what we call duality, is God

Frederick Lenz

#10. Each of us gets to choose the movie of our life. Not only that, but we're the main character, the director, and the producer. So we get to choose how we want it to be.
From the Soul of Uncertainty

Mark Susnow

#11. Football was just the playing I enjoyed at first, but the longer you're playing the more it becomes a social event. You meet new people and make new friends. I still know some of the people I played with when I was 11-years-old, which is nice.

Hope Powell

#12. It is one of my decided opinions that married people ought to have no one, be the tie ever so close and dear, living permanently with them, to break the sacred duality - no, let me say the unity of their home.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#13. We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong.

Fernando Pessoa

#14. I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself. I've become intolerable to myself. I live in a lacerating duality. I'm seemingly free, but I'm a prisoner inside of me.

Clarice Lispector

#15. Your greatest attribute, that which allows you to accomplish most in life and the most treasured aspect of your being will often be the source of your greatest suffering.

Chris Matakas

#16. As long as the mind and ego control the direction of creating, there will always be problems in the outer world, for the ego thinks only of itself and lives in duality. But when the heart is in control, everything comes back to balance, for the heart feels and knows only the oneness of life.

Drunvalo Melchizedek

#17. We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it.

C. G. Jung

#18. In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.

Robert Anton Wilson

#19. Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.

Huineng

#20. I embrace my shadow self. Shadows give depth and dimension to my life. I believe in embracing my duality, in learning to let darkness and light, peacefully co-exist, as illumination.

Jaeda DeWalt

#21. As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished or unfinished.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#22. My whole life was duality: Here's my life at home, here's my life on the road.

James Hetfield

#23. A Miracle is nothing more, than the removal of an Illusion.

Vivian Amis

#24. I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

#25. The direction of life is from duality to unity.

Deepak Chopra

#26. Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.

Carlos Santana

#27. Truth has no duality.

Debasish Mridha

#28. Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.

David Richo

#29. And now they say my heart is failing. The doctor used the term "angina pectoris," which has a theological sound, like misericordia.

Marilynne Robinson

#30. You can't have an up without a down. You can't have a left without a right. This is duality. If you have a problem, you must already have the solution. The question is, do you really want the solution, or do you want to perpetuate the problem?

Byron Katie

#31. I'm just so tired of life being something that happens to me. That's not how it's supposed to work. I'm supposed to make my own life.

Joshua Edward Smith

#32. You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class.

Kurt Vonnegut

#33. There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#34. I believe the duality of life is fertile soil.

Ken Grace

#35. Every act has both good and evil results. Every act in life yields pairs of opposites in its results. The best we can do is lean toward the light, toward the harmonious relationships that come from compassion with suffering, from understanding the other person.

Joseph Campbell

#36. Polarity exists so that we may discover the truth beyond this world of duality, which is the ultimate purpose of life.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#37. Every man is sensitive. Some cover it up with brutality, others with cowardice and vanity, but a small few wear it bravely like armor

Solange Nicole