Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.
Opposite Quotes
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking about what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the numbers of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. […]
When you are young, women tell you, “Look but do not touch.” As you get older you hear just the opposite.
If con is the opposite of pro, is congress the opposite of progress?
Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use.
Opposites attract.
Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.
Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?
This devil of a man (Poincaire) is the opposite of Briand the latter knows nothing, and understands everything; the other knows everything, and understands nothing.
