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Philosopher, Mathematician

“Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have. He who dies with the most toys is still dead. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.”

Believe Opposites Getting What You Want

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Blake Mycoskie

Entrepreneur

“Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.”

Facts Opposites Complicated

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Brad Williams

Comedian

“I don't know, why am I called the opposite of what I am? It's very confusing to me.”

Knows Opposites

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Brené Brown

Researcher, author, speaker

“The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.”

Inspiration Motivation

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Brad Williams

Comedian

“For strangers, what I get a lot is people calling me the opposite of what I am.”

People Opposites Calling

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Aline Brosh McKenna

Screenwriter, Producer

“The opposite of love is apathy or hatred.”

Love Is Opposites

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Anthony Bourdain

Chef, Author, Television Personality

“What's the opposite of suck? Un-suck?”

Opposites

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Albert Einstein

Physicist

“... on principle, it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitudes alone. In reality the very opposite happens. It is the theory which decides what we can observe.”

Trying Reality Opposites

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Aldous Huxley

Novelist, Essayist

“Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individual experience.”

Heaven Opposites Mystical Experiences

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Anais Nin

Writer, Diarist

“Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.”

Desire Suffering Opposites

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

“Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.”

Feelings Compassion Opposites

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Ayn Rand

Philosopher, Novelist

“Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force and mind are opposites. Morality ends where a gun begins.”

Mind Gun Opposites

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