inner duality Quotes

Everyone has a masculine and feminine side; masculine qualities and feminine qualities. We've all got these sides to ourselves. And clothes can tell that story. People would think this is very unsympathetic, but I would always say to people, you don't actually need to go through with an operation, can't you just be? You are who you are! But then people say to me, "Oh, you're really dreadful, how would you know?".

I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong.

Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.

You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.

Starting with the lyrics, 'Only scared of myself and the truth in the stars/I'm a king, I'm the dirt, God within me shine,' the first half of '6 Weeks' delves into my attempts to balance the notion that I have an existential purpose with the realization that I am nothing against the vastness of the universe.

The self holds both a hell and a heaven.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

Before you condemn me my friends, I suggest you look deep inside you. For good and evil exists in us all.

You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

A work of art is like a person: it has more than one soul in its breast.

I decided upon the thought that I can only find myself once I can admit to myself and approve that both sides are sides of myself.

I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.

You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.

Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of its ever being otherwise.

We both believe in monsters. But all the ghosts and demons are you. And all the angels and genies are you. All the kings, queens, Buddhas, beautiful boys. Inside you. No one can take them away. (Missing Angel Juan.)

Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.

I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.

People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.

Life is effort. So says the body. Life is blessing. So says the soul.

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.