#paradox

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. ↗

— Truman Capote

#paradox #ugliness #beauty

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. ↗

— Carl Rogers

#am #change #curious #i #i am

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#prejudice #education

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement. ↗

— Mark Twain

#experience

This Lord of natures today was transformed contrary to His nature; it is not too difficult for us to also overthrow our evil will." Hymns of the Nativity, Hymn 1:97, pg. 74 in Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns (New York: Paulist Press, 1989). ↗

— Ephraim the Syrian

#nativity #nature #paradox #will #nature

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#organized-religion #paradox #religion #hope

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III) ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#acting

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to. ↗

— Banksy

#initiative #oxymoron #paradox #independence