Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes

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

There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.

Will and I are yin and yang. He's all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and I'm all earth. I'm here to ground him, and he's here to help me fly.

We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.

I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of 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.

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

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

Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself.

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

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.

Balance is good. You should always have balance... you need it to survive.

We're always in the middle of two energies. Gravity is sinking you down; inspiration is pulling you up.

Nature is harmony in discord.

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.

Here, fire turns into water; Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun. There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction; Everything supports everything else.