Nicholas Sparks Quotes

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Everything contains its antithesis.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.

In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

I'm all about polarities and juxtapositions.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

I really like blending two things together that are polar opposites. Because I feel like, in a large aspect, that's kinda like what I am.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

I think there's a yin and a yang to everything.

If you take the yin-yang, it has a piece of the other inside itself. You can't be too much of one thing and be balanced.

Life really is a series of contrasts.

Nothing is the shadow of Everything.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other. Voice and sound harmonize each other. Front and back follow one another.

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.