Gayle Forman Quotes

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

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

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.'

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

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

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

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.

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

It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

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

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Every side of a coin has another side.

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

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

Everything contains its antithesis.

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

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.

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

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

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.

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.