Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there ...
And speaking of options ,these kids [the ones who attend elite universities] have all been told that theirs are limitless. Once you commit to something, though, that ceases to be true. A former student sent me an essay he wrote, a few years after col...
The end occurred mostly in her whispers and his silence - because he couldn't whisper and they didn't want to wake Colin's parents. They succeeded in staying quiet, in part because it felt like the air had been shocked out of him. Paradoxically, he f...
And if that's the case -- if we are our remembering selves -- then it matters far less how we feel moment to moment with our children. They play rich and crucial roles in our life stories, generating both outsize highs and outsize lows. Without such ...
Drawing from 1.7 million Gallup surveys collected between 2008 and 2012, researchers Angus Deaton and Arthur Stone found that parents with children at home age fifteen or younger experience more highs, as well as more lows, than those without childre...
As parents, we sometimes mistakenly assume that things were always this way. They weren't. The modern family is just that - modern - and all of our places in it are quite new. Unless we keep in mind how new our lives as parents are, and how unusual a...
Professor Levy: You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as ch...
Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.
Enlightenment seems paradoxical but all it needs is compassion
Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.
Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
A paradox is something which tests your spiritual eyesight.
The only way to be completely self-consistent is to be constantly uttering paradoxes.
Am Anfang war Gott? It may have been true, but it was not germane.
I just hope we don’t cause a major paradox.
The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.
The Paradox of Sustenance: For an organism’s life to be continued; another organism’s life has to be discontinued.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
