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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

~ John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Contrast Life Opposites Summer Winter

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.

~ Sarah Dessen

Sarah Dessen Adversity Contrast Life

Nothing exists without its opposite.

~ Chris Crutcher

Chris Crutcher Contrast Truth

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.

~ Lauren Oliver

Lauren Oliver Contrast Happiness Unhappiness

Normally death came at night, taking a person in their sleep, stopping their heart or tickling them awake, leading them to the bathroom with a splitting headache before pouncing and flooding their brain with blood. It waits in alleys and metro stops. After the sun goes down plugs are pulled by white-clad guardians and death is invited into an antiseptic room.But in the country death comes, uninvited, during the day. It takes fishermen in their longboats. It grabs children by the ankles as they swim. In winter it calls them down a slope too steep for their budding skills, and crosses their skies at the tips. It waits along the shore where snow met ice not long ago but now, unseen by sparkling eyes, a little water touches the shore, and the skater makes a circle slightly larger than intended. Death stands in the woods with a bow and arrow at dawn and dusk. And it tugs cars off the road in broad daylight, the tires spinning furiously on ice or snow, or bright autumn leaves.

~ Louise Penny

Louise Penny Contrast Country Death

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.

~ Santiago Ramón Y Cajal

Santiago Ramón Y Cajal Benefit Contrast Corpses Crown Death Desecration Effort Extreme Heroes History Humanity Inspirational Judgement Love Opposite Pain Patriot Pedestal Prestige Ruins Sacrifice Scholars Science Statue Struggle Time Triumph

It takes darkness to be aware of the light.

~ Treasure Tatum

Treasure Tatum Adversity Contrast Light Spirituality Trials

Contrast is not ‘bad’ since the contrast we experience still causes us to learn and grow. Expansion never ceases, and that is a beautiful thing. Contrast allows us to see what is not in alignment with our Authentic Selves, and then presents us with opportunity after opportunity to respond from a place of compassion, forgiveness, acceptance, love, joy, gratitude, etc. Thus, when we break the karmic loop we swing back into alignment with Spirit.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Alaric Hutchinson Alignment Authentic Self Authenticity Consciousness Contrast Expansion Growth Inner Peace Inspirational Learning New Age Psychology Spirit Spiritual Spirituality Wisdom Zen

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

~ Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman Adventures Comfort Contrast Freedom Meals Pain

She could see all of Ferenwood from here: the rolling hills, the endless explosion of color cascading down and across the lush landscape. Reds and blues: Maroon and ceruleans. Yellow and tangerine and violet and aquamarine. Every hue held a flavor, a heartbeat, a life. She took a deep breath and drew it all in.

~ Tahereh Mafi

Tahereh Mafi Adventure Beauty Color Contrast Explosion Hue Landscape Otherworldiness View

Yes, contrast teaches us a great many things and there is purpose for it. Yet it is time to transcend your everyday dramas that are but drops in an ocean. Cease focusing on your droplets of water and look around you. Everything you say and touch and do sets into motion ripples that either heal and create or curse and destroy. Let me repeat: Everything.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Alaric Hutchinson Consciousness Contrast Growth Inner Peace Inspirational Law Of Attraction Mindfulness Perspective Power Of Thoughts Power Of Words Psychology Purpose Spiritual Teaching Transcendence Wisdom Zen

Lisa was thinking, as she climbed the apparently unending staircase, the she had taken pretty long odds. She had not hesitated to buck the Tiger, Life. Simon Iff had warned her that she was acting on impulse. But--on the top of that--he had merely urged her to be true to it. She swore once more that she would stick to her guns. The black mood fell from her. She turned and looked upon the sea, now far below. The sun, a hollow orb of molten glory, hung quivering in the mist of the Mediterranean; and Lisa entered for a moment into a perfect peace of spirit. She became once with Nature, instead of a being eternally at war with it.

~ Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley Contrast Dissonance Imagery Nature

We live in a world of contrast and it’s sad we are among people who can’t seem to grasp the differences surrounding them.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Dominic Riccitello Contrast Differences Feelings Lgbt Life Marriage Politics Quote Reality Thoughts

The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water.Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with hidden life.The only veil that stands between perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your courage.Dare to breach the surface and sink.

~ Vera Nazarian

Vera Nazarian Bones Contradiction Contrast Danger Dangers Deep Delve Depth Depths Desert Desolation Dig Drought Dry Dust Eco Ecology Hidden Illusion Innards Inside Inside Out Inward Membrane Microcosm Mysteries Mystery Obscure Obscured Occult Ocean Outside Plenty Profound Profundity Riches Richness Scarcity Skin Skin Deep Superficial Surface Water Within Without World

Oh sure, everyone else charges monsters and it's brave, I do it once and I'm a madman.

~ Drew Hayes

Drew Hayes Charge Contrast Courage Fighting Humor Madness Monsters

Light can only be understood with the wisdom of darkness.

~ Ka Chinery

Ka Chinery Clarity Of Mind Contrast Darkness Darkness And Light Light Light And Darkness Wisdom Wisdom Quotes

[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who does not climb the mountain of Christ does indeed fall into the abyss of Buddha.

~ G.k. Chesterton

G.k. Chesterton Audacity Belief Beliefs Compare Comparison Contrast Darkness Death Life Opposites Philosophy Religion Worldview

My wretched passions were acute, smarting, from my continual, sickly irritability I had hysterical impulses, with tears and convulsions. I had no resource except reading, that is, there was nothing in my surroundings which I could respect and which attracted me. I was overwhelmed with depression, too; I had an hysterical craving for incongruity and for contrast, and so I took to vice.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Contrast Craving Depression Hysteria Vice

Insane love.Loving insanity.Insanity and love...

~ Simona Panova

Simona Panova Adore Adored Beloved Cardew Conflict Contrast Freya Goth Gothic Gothic Romance Insane Insanity Like Liked Love Loved Loving Mysterious Mystery Relationship Romance Romantic Suspense Young Adult

The darkest night in someone's life may be the brightest day in another person's life. Life rests on perceptions and conceptions or missed perceptions and misconceptions. You can choose to make good things out of every challenging circumstance. In contrast, you can also choose to see nothing in a creative opportunity.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Israelmore Ayivor Attitude Attitudes Black Night Bright Bright Day Choice Choose Conceptions Contrast Creative Dark Dark Night Darkest Food For Thought Good Things Israelmore Ayivor Life Misconceptions Night Opportunity People Perceive Perception Person

Red was ruby, green was fluorescent, yellow was simply incandescent. Color was life. Color was everything.Color, you see, was the universal sign of magic.

~ Tahereh Mafi

Tahereh Mafi Color Contrast Furthermore Hue Magic Universal

All overt and covert emotions would shrivel without the beam of contrast and comparison to supply context and implication. We need the value of counterpoise to recognize and distinguish between similar and dissimilar concepts. How do we identify the importance of hope if we never felt despair? How do we appreciate the value of society and companionship until we experience solitude and loneliness? What would any relationship be unless draped with the boughs of thoughts and feelings, without the ongoing interaction between conscientious action and unreserved devotion, without endless empathy fused with boundless love? In the ring of time, without the verve supplied by both the real and the imaginary, life would be bland, insipid, and lackluster.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Kilroy J. Oldster Comparison Context Contextualization Contrast Counterpart Counterpoise Emotions Feelings Feelings And Emotions Feelings And Perceptions Implication Philosophy Philosophy Of Life Thoughts Thoughts Of The Mind Thoughts On Life Thoughts Quotes

Some of your most powerful intentions are born in your moments of greatest contrast.

~ Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

Michael Thomas Sunnarborg Contrast Intention Thoughts

She falls back like a dead weight. The red hair loosens from the hair band and spreads in the colorful surface of the pillows, her white body is in sharp contrast, the gleam in her bloodshot eyes becomes intense and shines. My aunt, lying like this, looks like a goddess in an orgasm, only that, inside, she is suffering. I close my eyes and breathe deeply. The same is happening to us, we're really disappearing. I think of the matter of our bodies, changeable, disappearing in the particles of the air while we breathe. In this room, everywhere, we are printed on the walls, in the air that settles on things. I breathe and look at her. I'm stuck in her.

~ Pat R

Pat R Contrast Disappearing Existence Goddess Orgasm Suffering

Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn't turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Richelle E. Goodrich Appreciation Contrast Darkness Evil Good Goodness Opposites Richelle Richelle Goodrich Sunrise

I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell.

~ Tom Holland

Tom Holland Conquests Contrast Evil Good And Evil Heaven And Hell Observation Observations Villain

What is evil?' asked the Fiend

~ Joseph Delaney

Joseph Delaney Contrast Evil Existential Questions Philosophical

My rage is derived from eyes so sharp they see through the idiocy being passed off as sophistication. Under the cloak of universal themes and terms such as freedom, change, and acceptance, madness ensues, being readily welcomed by those whose mind's eye questions nothing.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau 3Rd Eye Acceptance Anger Change Contrast Evil Freedom Fury Ire Madness Modern Day Nirvana Rage Seething Sharingan Sharpness Sleeplessness Society S Ills Sophistication Universal Wrath

The coining of their new catch-phrase 'homophiliac' displayed in contrast to 'homophobic' was rather amusing, though to think that they believe it means anything different to 'homophobic' is just facetious. It's like someone trying to create a difference in definition between 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' - or to make the one look better or less reprehensible than the other.

~ Christina Engela

Christina Engela Amusing Believe Catch Phrase Coining Contrast Definition Difference Different Displayed Ethnic Cleansing Facetious Genocide Homophiliac Homophobic Reprehensible

It's about the ways in which girls deal with anger and aggression, as opposed to the ways in which boys do. The premise is that boys tend to be more direct in their aggression - physical confrontation - while in contrast, girls use an indirect approach known as relational aggression. Relational aggression is a form of aggression where the group is used as a weapon to assault others and others' relationships. It uses lies, secrets, betrayals and a host of other two-faced tactics to destroy or damage the relationships and social standing of others in the group.

~ Anonymous

Anonymous Aggression Anger Be Careful Betrayals Boys Cheat Contrast Difference Firends Friendships Frienemies Girls Group Groups Lies Relational Aggression

The electrical, electronics and wireless radio frequency (RF) industries are creating an increasingly high radiation environment for the human. This is comparable to the elevated radiation environment found at high altitudes and smart health researchers would be wise to contrast high altitude diseases to the epidemics of our time, such as Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Fibromyalgia, Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS), and so on.

~ Steven Magee

Steven Magee Add Altitudes Attention Autism Comparable Contrast Creating Deficit Diseases Disorder Ehs Electrical Electromagnetic Electronics Elevated Environment Epidemics Fibromyalgia Found Frequency Health High Human Hypersensitivity Increasingly Industries Radiation Radio Researchers Rf Smart Time Wireless Wise

Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her attire and mien, and with the infant at her bosom, an object to remind him of the image of Divine Maternity, which so many illustrious painters have vied with one another to represent; something which should remind him, indeed, but only by contrast, of that sacred image of sinless motherhood, whose infant was to redeem the world. Here, there was the taint of of deepest sin in the most sacred of quality of human life, working such effect, that the world was only the darker for this woman's beauty, and the more lost for the infant that she had borne.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne Contrast Motherhood Sacred Sin

Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Contrast Contrasts Differences Different Ego Egocentric Generosity Generous Give Giving Narcissism Narcissistic Opposites Sacrifice Sacrificial Selfish Selfishness Spell Spelling

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Adversity Contrast

To laugh continually is to never laugh at all. For it takes the periodic sound of sorrow from which to distinguish the sound of joy.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Richelle E. Goodrich Contrast Joy Laugh Laughter Life Life Lessons Sorrow

I don't really wanna know what makes you leave, or when you'll be back.I just wanna know what will make me cry at your arrival.

~ Ade Santi

Ade Santi Contrast Deep Thoughts Life Tragedy

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

~ Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud Contrast Itself Pleasure

Contrast is important in life. We understand what light is because we can compare it with what we know is dark. Sweet is made sweeter after we eat something bitter. It’s the very same with sadness. And it’s important to experience sadness, to embrace it in order to truly know happiness. I was just a flat line until he came along. And maybe now I’m hurting. But isn’t that what love is supposed to do? Make you feel, make you brave, make you look at yourself more carefully?

~ Tarryn Fisher

Tarryn Fisher Contrast Happiness Hurting Moving On

Yet, although he could not quite work this out in simple terms in his own mind, the very savour of life, he thought, was itself enhanced if it were not totally taken for granted. Perhaps it was something to do with the whole philosophy of the world into which we were born. If we lived for ever, who would look forward eagerly to tomorrow? If there were no darkness, should we appreciate the sun? Warmth after cold, food after hunger, drink after thirst, sexual love after the absence of sexual love, the fatherly greeting after being away, the comfort and dryness of home after a ride in the rain, the warmth and peace and security of one’s fireside after being among enemies. Unless there was contrast there might be satiety.

~ Winston Graham

Winston Graham Appreciation Contrast Philosophy Ross Poldark

Everywhere, even in the blackest abyss, he believed one might witness the divine. The shadows and contrast―absence itself―as important as the light and marble, for one cannot exist without the other.

~ Eowyn Ivey

Eowyn Ivey Contrast Divine The Divine Yin And Yang
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