My Contradictions in Quotes

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. - William Blake

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.- William Blake

Opposition is true friendship- William Blake

One thought fills immensity. -William Blake

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.-Alexander Pope

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.- Alexander Pope

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. -Alexander Pope

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance- Alexander Pope

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.-Mother Teresa

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.- Jim Morrison

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. -Aristotle

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. -Benjamin Franklin

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. -Mark Twain

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death. -Annie Lennox

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. -T. E. Lawrence

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. -Ernest Hemingway

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. -Aristotle

Suicide is not a remedy. -James A. Garfield

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live. -Peter McWilliams

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. -Bo Bennett

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. -Golda Meir

I always trust my gut reaction; it's always right. -Kiana Tom

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers. -Hesiod

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.-Friedrich Nietzsche

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie. -Georg Buchner

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time. -John Barrymore

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred. -Hugh Grant

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. -Joseph Conrad

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. -Bertrand Russell

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. -Ferdinand Marcos

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. -Thomas Merton

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. -Eric Hoffer

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there. -Joss Whedon

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create. -Yousuf Karsh

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. -John Steinbeck

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life. -Jerzy Kosinski