Yoko Ono Quotes

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth ... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

Life is weird and complex but very simple at the same time. It's all about perception.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Every side of a coin has another side.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

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.'

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

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

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.