#opposites

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

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#opposites #love

You were always saying you were gonna shoot him," he mutters, but it's kind of half-hearted. "Stupid fucking little tit, he needs a bullet in his head. What do you keep him round for, anyway?" Because he makes me laugh. Because, fuck knows why, he adores me. Because he needs somebody to look after him and nobody else knows how. Because everything about us is wrong and I never ever want to be right. Because I wake up in the morning and see him sleeping next to me with his stupid dyed hair and his stupid painted nails and his stupid toy monkey and I remember I love him so much I don't know what to do, I love him I love him I LOVE HIM. ↗

— Richard Rider

#opposites-attract #love

We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing. ↗

— Konstantin Josef Jireček

#paradox #paradox

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#been #catholic #characteristics #combination #combined

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#capitalist #class #class struggle #expression #history

Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites. ↗

— Jayne Meadows

#even #gregarious #i #i am #opposites

Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites. ↗

— Suze Orman

#financial #i #may #money #opposites

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#ends #force #gun #mind #morality

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them. ↗