Paradoxical Quotes

The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu

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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda

Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

Be the chief but never the lord.
- Lao Tzu

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2

There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller

How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson

The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy

We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha

A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin

There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson

Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland

When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie