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Let our thought-provoking opposite quotes and sayings give us the right direction in life and know the difference between spontaneous attraction and real love.
It was rightly predicted that opposites attract. They may seem outward as contradictory to each other, but factually, they complement each other.
That’s nature and karma’s trick to keep everything in balance. The Chinese call it the ‘ Yin and Yang connection.’
Plato wisely quotes,’ The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.’
If you observe in life, couples attract each other who exhibit opposite personalities. But don’t misinterpret this hormonal attraction towards the opposite sex as love.
Joy Browne says, ‘Opposites attract, and then they aggravate.’
That’s what happens in normal life relationships leading to unnecessary heart broke and divorce.
Real love comes from a center of understanding about each other and genuine interest in life companionship. Real love has less gloss, more depth, and substance between two individuals.
Best Opposite Quotes and Sayings
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
– Plato
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
– Plato
Opposites attract – and then aggravate.
– Joy Browne
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
– Niels Bohr
Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
– Gloria Steinem
Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody.
– Michael Moore
The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
– Fran Lebowitz
A sister is both your mirror – and your opposite.
– Elizabeth Fishel
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
– Jim Hightower
The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.
– Mehmet Oz
The opposite of a fact is a falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
– Niels Bohr
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
– Paul Tillich
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.
– Anne Lamott
Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.
– Margaret Heffernan
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, but indifference between life and death.
– Elie Wiesel
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
– Horace
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
– Coco Chanel
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
If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
Nobility and worth are to be found only among the few, but their opposite among the many; for there is not one man of merit and high spirit in a hundred, while there are many destitute of both to be found everywhere.
– Aristotle
Apathy — not hate — is the opposite of love. It is this apathy that leads first to the death of the psyche, and in its extreme form to the death of the body.
– Jane G. Goldberg
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
– John Steinbeck
You couldn’t have strength without weakness, you couldn’t have light without dark, you couldn’t have love without loss.
– Jodi Picoult
Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it’s easy to come down on the wrong side.
– Karen Marie Moning
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
– Archibald MacLeish
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
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
– Barbara Kingsolver
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
– Louis Aragon
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
Opposites may attract, but I wouldn’t put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.
– Suze Orman
For every low there is an equal but opposite high.
– Norman Cousins
In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty.
– Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease.
– Thomas C. Haliburton
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance.
– Hannah Arendt
Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.
– Susan Cain
Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
– Sir Isaac Newton
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
– Thomas Mann
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
– Santayana
There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible.
– Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Opposites are cures for opposites.
– Hippocrates
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
– Henry Miller
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.
– Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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