Top 36 Paradoxes Of Life Quotes
#1. One of the great paradoxes of life is that self-awareness breeds anxiety.
Irvin D. Yalom
#2. Writing evinces the soul of an active mind and every era produced persons whom devoted their being to exploring the mysteries of life, seeking to discern answers pertaining how to resolve the complexities and paradoxes of life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#3. One of the paradoxes of life is that the things that initially make you successful are rarely the things that keep you successful.
John C. Maxwell
#4. Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time.
Lisa Wingate
#5. And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.
Howard Thurman
#6. I used to love going to shows and finding new bands, but the Internet takes the fun out of it. Like a band? You can buy and download every single song they have ever done within five minutes.
Timothy Simons
#7. The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with a smile.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#9. People see my current success but don't realize I've worked hard to get where I am. I used to clean garbage off the Philadelphia docks and put a lot of time into developing my music.
Kevin Eubanks
#10. Actors in the film industry are usually wary of expressing their opinions on the issues of the day, politics especially.
Anupam Kher
#11. treat you like a criminal," he said, showing a slide of an inmate in striped prison garb. Then a slide of Bob Dylan came on the screen. "People want to own the music they love.
Walter Isaacson
#12. Myrddin', I said gently, 'what is she to you?'
His head whipped round and he glared at me. His mouth was a grimace of revulsion, and his eyes were hard, bright points of pain. 'She is my death
Stephen R. Lawhead
#13. Anyone who wishes to destroy humanity's past, desires to destroy its future.
Mario J. Lucero
#14. A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper.
Boris Fishman
#15. 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
#17. We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.
Thomas Merton
#18. Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.
Millicent Fenwick
#19. I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
#20. One of life's many paradoxes is that the more we focus on ourselves and our own well-being, to the neglect of our neighbor, the more unsettled and unhappy we become.
Jonathan Morris
#21. I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.
Jonathan Kieran
#22. Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.
Douglas A. Blackmon
#23. In point of fact, most witches probably know more about liquor and how to properly drink it than many ancient and knowledgeable bartenders.
Melinda Bardon
#24. The fucking beef industry and the fucking HMO industry,' Friendly says. 'Al-Cowda and HMOsama.
Josh Bazell
#25. Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you're a rock and roll musician. Whereas if I were a violinist, it might be a little different.
Slash
#26. 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
#27. All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.
Nancy Friday
#28. As I wrote more I became more critical of myself and I think that you have to be your harshest judge. I don't ever believe that what I write is my best work. I always think that I can hone it. I can always think that I can make it a little bit better.
Homer Hickam
#29. This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.
F.L. Lucas
#30. Some people take better care of their pets and possessions than their marriage
DeBorrah K. Ogans
#31. How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on themselves!
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#33. There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#34. My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.
Sue Grafton
#35. They had not grown up in the paradoxes of industry. Their senses were still sharp to the ridiculousness of the industrial life.
John Steinbeck
#36. It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
