"No [person], for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Browsing category: Opposites
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength” St. Francis de Sales
"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
"Failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success."
Arianna Huffington
“Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.” Debbie Ford
"What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose."
Andre Agassi
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
Carl Jung
"You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over."
Nigella Lawson
"If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
Dolly Parton