Nothing exists without its opposite.
Chris CrutcherYou can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".
Lauren OliverTags: happiness unhappiness contrast
It takes darkness to be aware of the light.
Treasure TatumTags: light spirituality adversity trials contrast
We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
Sigmund FreudTags: pleasure contrast itself
Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.
Stephenie MeyerHeroes 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 CajalTags: science inspirational pain love history humanity time death opposite judgement struggle triumph heroes effort scholars sacrifice contrast prestige ruins extreme patriot crown desecration corpses pedestal benefit statue
But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: inspiration contrast birth-of-desire birth-of-ideas feel-inspired get-ideas get-inspired where-ideas-come-from
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 HollandTags: evil observation good-and-evil contrast conquests heaven-and-hell observations villain
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. GoodrichTags: life laughter sorrow joy life-lessons laugh contrast
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. GoodrichTags: evil goodness darkness good appreciation contrast opposites richelle sunrise richelle-goodrich
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