If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.

There are three paradoxes of the Christian life: You must give in order to receive, you must let go in order to possess, and you must die in order to live.

how does she know it’s the right room?’ wondered Descant.Oh, I don’t know; mabye it’s the magical red glow coming from the doorway, or perhaps it’s the deafening howl of the temporal winds.’ said Mervall....

The many contradictions in our lives – such as being home while feeling homeless, being busy while feeling bored, being popular while feeling lonely, being believers while feeling many doubts – can frustrate, irritate, and...

It’s paradoxical that an ordinary man like Nemur presumes to devote himself to making other people geniuses. He would like to be thought of as the discoverer of new laws of learning—the Einstein of psychology....

Everybody knows you’re going to miss some. It’s just the reality and the probability of it. It’s the ultimate paradox for a kicker. You go out expecting to make every kick, but you also know...

It was the discovery of the quantum universe that changed everything, and that universe was so small and so dynamic that it could not be observed directly. Trying to explain their insights, scientists looked at...

Paradox reconciles all contradictions.

The total effect of Orwell’s work is an effect of paradox. He was a humane man who communicated an extreme of inhuman terror; a man committed to decency who actualised a distinctive squalor.

Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

One of the great constants in life is change.

Most people don’t mind being stupid, insomuch that they do not appear stupid; appearance and being are seldom simultaneous, congruent, and conclusive.

[…] cela m’excite de penser à tout ce qui fuit dans la vie au nom de la vie.

Confusion is not a bad thing. It’s not doubt that makes a man mad. It’s certainty.

I never said most of the things I said.

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but don’t three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don’t make a right, but don’t two negatives make a positive?

The incompetent always present thmeselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant, and teh feeble-minded as intellectual.

The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many forms – human rights, sexual freedom, political liberty, freedom to choose in many...

Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a...

The average human lifespan compared to the age of the universe is the same as comparing a blink of an eye to that human lifespan. Relatively speaking, short and long lifespans are the same. Both...

He was the second snowman to be melting away before her eyes, only this one was different. It was a paradox. The colder he became, the more he melted.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Throughout the parables the paradoxical teachings continue: Give to receive. Die to live. Lose to win.

They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.

Can you be in love with more than one person and only one person at the same time? Yes, if you’re in love with two clones.

This book does not exist. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be worth buying or reading.

We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

You are never too old to become younger!

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

Failing to plan, is like planning to fail.

The only way to be completely self-consistent is to be constantly uttering paradoxes.

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

I’m not offended until you think I’m offended.

I was the kid next door’s imaginary friend.

Those who cannot have your love, will gladly accept your hatred.

My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, “what about the great men with bushy hairs?”. He replied, “education had made them mad, so study...

And the end of this paradox is that only when the child is thus free can he have the proper attachment to his parents; only when we allow his independence can he then freely offer...

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

It’s a bit like staring into another dimension, one that has a different set of mathematical and physical laws. For me, it also serves as reminder that that the mind of God is unknowable, that...

Pops added,”you know, they say if you don’t vote, you get the government you deserve.””And if you do, you never get the results you expected,” (Katherine) replied.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

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...

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...

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.

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