The Paradox of Freedom—the way to expand your freedom is to narrow your focus. Stay focused on saving to achieve financial freedom. Stay focused on training to achieve physical freedom. Stay focused on learning to achieve intellectual freedom. The disciplined become the free.

Love is not a purpose, it’s a paradox; it’s not an end-goal, it’s an auxiliary fuel source to help get there.

A circle has no end.

As a rule,I believe people shouldn’t follow rules;rules should follow people.

Baisu ne tai, kas pasakyta, bet tai, kas nutylėta

FV: Annandale defines ‘definition’ as “an explanation of the signification of a term.” Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as “a statement of the precise meaning of a word.” A small, perhaps negligible difference you might think. And neither, would you say, is necessarily more correct than the other? But now look up...

The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting. They’re fond of paradox in that region.

Wyatt avoided the petty gunfights and headed to a saloon and rigged up a bunch of Molotov cocktails. Her firebombs against members of Tom and Vik’s posse had destroyed the scenario’s promise of so many wonderful gun duels. She’d killed most of their group, too, and shown everyone that she wasn’t getting promoted only because...

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.

I am the Vending Machine of Love. Exact change only. The price is 33.3 cents.

Rain never falls on a cloud.

…but that was the thing about reality. It didn’t need to make sense.

Ir grūti kādu visu mūžu ienīst, un tad piepeši… nekā, vairs pilnīgi nekā.

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.

Writer’s write because they’re writers.

Ah, it is impossible.””No, it is only very difficult – so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!

The argument goes something like this: “I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

Give me an honest con man any day.

Perhaps the saddest part of coexistence is the concept of interdependence being necessary for any form of solidarity to be realized. Being encouraged to lean on the weak, does not sound like a long term viable solution to attaining strength.

The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words.

That’s the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they’re suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That’s why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and...

Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most writers spend their lives writing about unexpected malice in the supposedly virtuous, and unexpected virtue in the supposedly sinful.

Many came to Jesus expecting him to solve their problems. Instead he helped them to connect to their own faith and their own wisdom.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?

Or–to quote another paradoxical gem of my dad’s: sometimes you have to lose to win.

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life’s sorrow with grace.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Kur vispār zināšanas cilvēci novedušas? Pie atombumbām, nāvīgām gāzēm un visādiem nāves rīkiem. Nebūtu augstskolu, ļaudis izkautos ar rungām, dabūtu punus un zilumus un – atkal varētu slēgt mieru.Pārspīlētas pieklājības klusinātajā gammā katrs spēcīgāks akords skanēja griezīgi, bet visu laiku skaļi bungotā priekšnesumā asāki piesitieni nevienu neuztrauca. Viss taču dibinājās uz kontrastiem!

His mindIt says survival of the fittest butHis soulRevival of the idiotsSo good riddance, dancing

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

Just because a prediction is true, doesn’t mean that it is not false.

ORTHODOX PARADOX Religion, unlike ethnicity, is inculcated Kamil Ali

If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?

And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradoxFor he is everything and nothingHero and foolPotent, helplessAnd with one word of truth or treacheryHe will save or damn the earthBecause he is mad and saneCold and passionateLost and found

The absence of a muse can be even more inspirational than its presence

They’re sharing a drink called loneliness, but at least its better than drinking alone.

Don’t believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being me’s no joke.

There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrupt legitimacy, and to legitimately corrupt others.

Mom?” I said. She turned. “Can I talk to you about something?” “Of course, darling. Come here.”I took a few steps into the room. There was so much I wanted to say. “I need you to be –” I said, and then I started to cry. “Be what?” she said, opening her arms. “Not sad,”...

A paradox may be paradoctored.

Without death Death is dead

Each cherry took about three seconds to eat. Three seconds to eat, but at least five years in the making. It seemed unfair to the hard-working cherry tree. The least I could do was to devote my attention to the cherry in those three seconds, really appreciate the tartness of the skin and the faint...

This Lord of natures today was transformed contrary to His nature; it is not too difficult for us to also overthrow our evil will.” Hymns of the Nativity, Hymn 1:97, pg. 74 in Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns (New York: Paulist Press, 1989).

Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.