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«It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.»
Author: Hugo Black (Jurist, Lawyer, Politician) | About: Happiness, Pleasure | Keywords: aiming, be full, lasting, paradox
«Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.»
Author: John Fowles | Keywords: Marriages, paradox
«Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't»
Author: Nancy Cartwright (Actress) | About: Life, Paradox | Keywords: damned, paradox
«Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.»
Author: George F. Will | About: Politicians | Keywords: constitute, elite, fascinate, paradox, public good
«I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Founder, Missionary) | About: Love | Keywords: found, hurt, hurts, paradox
«Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement»
Author: Thomas Wolfe | Keywords: fixed, haunting, movement, paradox
«There is this paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Pride | Keywords: paradox, prevents
«The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton (Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: a little, careless, courage, even, in order, keep, little, order, Orders of, out of order, paradox, take orders
«Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard (Philosopher, Theologian) | Keywords: paradox, professor, take away, The Professor, The Thinker, thinker
«So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful for impotence.»
Author: Winston Churchill (Author, Orator, Prime Minister) | Keywords: adamant, decided, drift, fluidity, impotence, irresolute, paradox, resolved, solid, undecided
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