Antoni Porowski Quotes

Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.

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

at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.

There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything.

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

Dark with excessive bright.

It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.

There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.

It takes some silence to make sound.

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

All concord's born of contraries.

Life is crazy and meaningful at once.

What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half.

It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.

I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.

Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.