Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. — Niels Bohr
The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power — C. S. Lewis
Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites. — Suze Orman
The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear. — Gary Zukav
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. — Andy Warhol
The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it's always been a war between the two. — Kendrick Lamar
Opposite action can change underlying emotions and help in managing emotional health. — Peter Attia
The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when u simply don't bother about that person! — Amish Tripathi
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. — Elie Wiesel
Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you. — Susan Cain
We are always seeking our opposite, whether we know it or not. When we discover what that is we can dissolve our arrogance. — Michio Kushi
The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love. — Albert Camus
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony. — Heraclitus
Love on its worst day conquers hate on its best day. — Matshona Dhliwayo
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power. — Elie Wiesel
Short Love Opposite Quotes
Love overcomes hate. Love has no color. Love has no orientation. All is love. — Adam Lambert
True love is your souls recognition of its counterpoint in another. — Owen Wilson
The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony. — Heraclitus
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. — Jean Anouilh
I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love. — J. August Strindberg
Hatred can be overcome only by love. — Mahatma Gandhi
Love insists the loved loves back — Dante Alighieri
Love from someone who is bad is worse than his hatred. — Indian Proverbs
We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live. — Axl Rose
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.
Opposite Of Love Is Indifference Quotes
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. — Elie Wiesel
The opposite of love is indifference to the genuine needs of others. — Max Anders
Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time. — Peter Kreeft
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference — Elie Wiesel
The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. — Elie Wiesel
The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom. — Tim Ferriss
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you’re feeling massive Resistance, the good news is, it means there’s tremendous love there too. If you didn’t love the project that is terrifying you, you wouldn’t feel anything. The opposite of love isn’t hate; it’s indifference. — Steven Pressfield
The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love. — Barry Lopez
The opposite of love is fear, not hate. — Yoko Ono
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. — Rollo May
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them. — Leo Buscaglia
The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together — John Berger
What is the opposite of abundance? It's not scarcity. It's greed. Greed is the belief that there is not enough for everyone, so you'd better grab yours now. What is the opposite of love? It's not hate. It's fear. Fear is the belief that someone or something can hurt you. — Robert G. Allen
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance. — Brian Hwang
There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart. — Lord Byron
Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country. — Samuel Johnson
Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think she's attractive to the opposite sex. — Earl Wilson
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age. — Katharine Hepburn
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter. — Peter David
When I met you it was magic...
We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets. — Talib Kweli
Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract. — Kathy Lette
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. — Andy Warhol
To have divine favor on your life means you'll attract extraordinary opposition — Bill Johnson
What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results. — E. W. Howe
Opposites attract - and then can't stand each other. — Kenneth Kaye
Opposite Relationship Quotes
People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A.—or America. — Isabel Lucas
Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them. — June Singer
With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie. — Charles Grodin
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
Freedom and relationship are polar opposites - they both exist on the same continuum. You DO want a relationship - and you DO want freedom - what you really want is BALANCE, you want wholeness. — Shakti Gawain
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Are you letting culture, not scripture, determine your sexuality, how you date, how you present yourself, how you engage in certain relationships with members of the opposite sex? We need to be very clear that the way we do life is different than the rest of the world. — Mark Driscoll
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction. — Margaret Mahy
Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition. — Margaret J. Wheatley
If you can hold the tension of opposite points of view in your intimate relationships with people, instead of making somebody right and somebody wrong, you are really taking an evolutionary step. — Connie Zweig
The rabid opposition to group selection has now considerably subsided. In the process, the conceptual structure of evolutionary theory has become clearer, as have the relationships that connect different theoretical approaches. — Elliott Sober
Opposite Couple Quotes
A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other. — Mary Jo Putney
Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them. — Sydney Smith
There can be no difference between same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples anywhere in the USA. — Dahlia Lithwick
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
I have made my thoughts on it (sledging) well known over the last couple of years. We are more than happy to be talking to opposition players in the field so long as it is not personal or abusive. — Ricky Ponting
In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty. — Leo Tolstoy
Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples. — Vaughn Walker
Love Oppose Quotes
The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family... The family is placed at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love. — Pope John Paul II
Loving the Second Amendment while opposing the NRA is every bit as natural as loving Jesus while opposing Westboro Baptist Church. — John Fugelsang
I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.' — Paul Feig
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa. — Karl A. Menninger
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth. — H. L. Mencken
The soul's true greatness is in loving God and in humbling oneself in His presence, completely forgetting oneself and believing oneself to be nothing; because the Lord is great, but He is well-pleased only with the humble; He always opposes the proud. — Mary Faustina Kowalska
I tend to lean more towards the Westerns of the 40s and 50s as opposed to the 60s and 70s. They get a little too drab for me when you get into the Spaghetti Western era. I love the John Ford movies. I love the music. I love the scope. — Seth MacFarlane
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us. — Tertullian
You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas. — Charlie Munger
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. — Elbert Hubbard
Polar Opposite Quotes
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. — Martin Luther
If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would look strikingly similar to the pop Christianity that has taken over the airwaves of North America. — Tony Campolo
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of body depends only on type and polarity. — G. I. Gurdjieff
The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine – vulnerability and strength – is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are. — RuPaul
Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love. — Andy Warhol
Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead. Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete. — Vera Nazarian
Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive. — Daley Thompson
Psychologically, when you've been overweight you want to achieve the polar opposite. — Craig David
The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites. — James Hollis
Complete Opposites Quotes
People always tell me I'm the complete opposite of Chief Keef and act like I'm supposed to stop him from making his music. But I like Chief Keef, so it's always super awkward. I just make music I like. — Chance the Rapper
I've always been my own person. I don't do what people want me to do. Like, if you want me to do that, I'm going to do the complete opposite. — Fetty Wap
In the old days rank was not important - The complete opposite of today. You just trained — Higa Yuchoku
I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you. — Craig Ferguson
Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same. — Keith Haring
Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health. — Hippocrates
If you were to start a business completely from scratch, with no ideas in mind, then my answer would be the opposite. — Pat Flynn
i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Horcrux is the complete opposite of a human being. — J. K. Rowling
The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general. — Alain Badiou
God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite. — Shane Koyczan
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. — Nelson Mandela
Anger cannot be overcome by anger. If someone is angry with you, and you show anger in return, the result is a disaster. On the other hand, if you control your anger and show its opposite - love, compassion, tolerance and patience - not only will you remain peaceful, but the other person's anger will also diminish. — Dalai Lama
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star. — E. E. cummings
Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles. — Abdu'l-Bahá
The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love-if your so consumed with hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them because your thinking about them for the same amount of time. — Marilyn Manson
We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love. Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire. Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff. — Tim Minchin
In the New Testament grace means God's love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves. — J. I. Packer
Therefore the love which us doth bind,
But fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And opposition of the stars. — Andrew Marvell
Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman). — Milan Kundera
People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is so unclear, while words are understood by everyone. But for me it is exactly the opposite...what the music I love expresses to me are thoughts not to indefinite for words, but rather too definite. — Felix Mendelssohn
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage. — Charles Simmons
I was walking around trying to act cool, like I had no fear at all.
But I was afraid, afraid that somebody would find out just how scared I was.
Now I'm finally realizing that fear is the opposite of love. — Stevie Ray Vaughan
In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty. — Leo Tolstoy
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one. — Rumi
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union. — Cyril Connolly
The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy. — Richard Bach
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear. . . — E. E. cummings
Lovers cannot imagine any opposition, no matter how small, to the beloved. They cannot endure to see the beloved veiled by something that causes Him to be forgotten. Moreover, lovers regard as futile any speech not about the beloved, and any act not related to Him as ingratitude and disloyalty. — Fethullah Gulen
Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate. — Karl Barth
Through your love
existence and nonexistence merge.
All opposites unite.
All that is profane
becomes sacred again. — Rumi
Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins — Mitch Albom
Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the opposite. — Jean Vanier
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world. — Jack Kerouac
Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good. — Matthieu Ricard
Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. — Nelson Mandela
Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite--there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all beings. — Bruce Lee
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell -- in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond. — Umberto Eco
Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Art knows no happier moment than the opportunity to show the symmetry of an extreme, during that moment of spheric harmony when the dissonance dissolves for the blink of an eye, dissolves into a blissful harmony, when the most extreme opposites, coming together from the greatest alienation, fleetingly touch with lips of the word and of love. — Stefan Zweig
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