"If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?"

Contrast, Beauty, Pain, Life

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"And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that (Hell) contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Contrast, Joy, Hell

"Somehow creationists keep us naturalists in track to some extent. They are the representation of human stupidity at its extreme. And we need some stupidity in the society for true intellect to be adored."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Contrast, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Today

"Light travels half away around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Contrast, Light, Darkness, Time, Speed

"There would be no cloud-nine days without rock-bottom moments left below."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Contrast, Regret, Truth, Power, Today

"The love hidden within is always greater than the hate displayed without."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Contrast, Love, Hate, Truth, Wisdom

"The weaknesses of the wise are better than the strengths of fools."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Contrast, Weaknesses, Wise, Strengths, Fools

"The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Contrast, Fiction, Reality, Perception, Truth

"Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Contrast, Society, Change, Tradition, Consumer

"In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department."

Paul D. Boyer, American Scientist

Contrast, University

"I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way."

Elvis Costello, British Musician

Contrast, Man

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"Can we share my eyes so you can see what I see?Can we share my ears so you can hear what I hear?Can you perch on my shouldersso you can go where I go?Always in my heart, I don't experience anything separate from you.This shared wonderment becomes doubled.This shared love becomes infinite."

Connection

"Love without conditions, restrictions, or the expectation of being loved in return."

Love

"As soon as we are born we hide God in ourselves.We then spend our lives looking for Himwhen all along, He has been concealed behind the veil of 'I'."

Spiritual

"For all these stars,nothing is new.They've seen all kinds of warsand miracles, too.They know the messengers with their holy bookswill smile and wash their hands in blood.They know the politicians with their good lookswill make the poor eat pies of mud.They've seen the Earth freeze and then burn with greed.They've seen the treesand the seas emptied.Yet, you won't hear their sneerswhen a man arrivesand, having experienced a number of years,proclaims: 'I have lived!'Because nothing is new under these stars:the lies, the love, the memories and scars, the ruin, the revolution, the fakes and true,the families, the friends, none of it is new.All of it-even the me and you."

History

"Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew."

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"Somehow creationists keep us naturalists in track to some extent. They are the representation of human stupidity at its extreme. And we need some stupidity in the society for true intellect to be adored."

"Light travels half away around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on."

"There would be no cloud-nine days without rock-bottom moments left below."

"The love hidden within is always greater than the hate displayed without."

"The weaknesses of the wise are better than the strengths of fools."

"The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important."

"Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores."

"In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department."

"I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way."

Explore more quotes by Kamand Kojouri

"Can we share my eyes so you can see what I see?Can we share my ears so you can hear what I hear?Can you perch on my shouldersso you can go where I go?Always in my heart, I don't experience anything separate from you.This shared wonderment becomes doubled.This shared love becomes infinite."

"Love without conditions, restrictions, or the expectation of being loved in return."

"As soon as we are born we hide God in ourselves.We then spend our lives looking for Himwhen all along, He has been concealed behind the veil of 'I'."

"God's existence is reaffirmed once we fall in with another."

"Love is a snowflake for no two are ever the same."

"There are some days we can claim and there are other days that claim us."

"My love, we can close our eyes but we cannot stop the sunrise."

"The only thing necessary in this world is love. Everything else is secondary."

"Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew."