Rob Lowe Quotes

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

Human nature is divided; it contains both darkness and light. You can choose to accept the darkness and lament it, or you can choose to expand the light until the darkness no longer dominates.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)

No one is so good that he has no bad in him, & no one is so bad that he has no good in him

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Every being has flaws; the potential is always there to connect to the light or to darkness.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite.

The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean wounds, and not rip up his work with the other edge?

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides.

Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.

Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?

I've got a terrible person in me just as much as anybody else, and I think - I like to think I also have a really good person in me.

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.

I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

In every one of us there are good seeds and bad. We have the seed of brotherhood, love, compassion, insight. But we have also the seed of anger, hate, dissent.