{"quotes":[{"text":"Lisa was thinking, as she climbed the apparently unending staircase, the she had taken pretty long odds. She had not hesitated to buck the Tiger, Life. Simon Iff had warned her that she was acting on impulse. But--on the top of that--he had merely urged her to be true to it. She swore once more that she would stick to her guns. The black mood fell from her. She turned and looked upon the sea, now far below. The sun, a hollow orb of molten glory, hung quivering in the mist of the Mediterranean; and Lisa entered for a moment into a perfect peace of spirit. She became once with Nature, instead of a being eternally at war with it.","author":"Aleister Crowley","tags":["contrast","dissonance","imagery","nature"],"id":5887,"author_id":"Aleister+Crowley"},{"text":"Contrast is important in life. We understand what light is because we can compare it with what we know is dark. Sweet is made sweeter after we eat something bitter. It’s the very same with sadness. And it’s important to experience sadness, to embrace it in order to truly know happiness. I was just a flat line until he came along. And maybe now I’m hurting. But isn’t that what love is supposed to do? Make you feel, make you brave, make you look at yourself more carefully?","author":"Tarryn Fisher","tags":["contrast","happiness","hurting","moving-on"],"id":12436,"author_id":"Tarryn+Fisher"},{"text":"She could see all of Ferenwood from here: the rolling hills, the endless explosion of color cascading down and across the lush landscape. Reds and blues: Maroon and ceruleans. Yellow and tangerine and violet and aquamarine. Every hue held a flavor, a heartbeat, a life. She took a deep breath and drew it all in.","author":"Tahereh Mafi","tags":["adventure","beauty","color","contrast","explosion","hue","landscape","otherworldiness","view"],"id":21523,"author_id":"Tahereh+Mafi"},{"text":"The coining of their new catch-phrase 'homophiliac' displayed in contrast to 'homophobic' was rather amusing, though to think that they believe it means anything different to 'homophobic' is just facetious. It's like someone trying to create a difference in definition between 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' - or to make the one look better or less reprehensible than the other.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["amusing","believe","catch-phrase","coining","contrast","definition","difference","different","displayed","ethnic-cleansing","facetious","genocide","homophiliac","homophobic","reprehensible"],"id":30801,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"Yes, contrast teaches us a great many things and there is purpose for it. Yet it is time to transcend your everyday dramas that are but drops in an ocean. Cease focusing on your droplets of water and look around you. Everything you say and touch and do sets into motion ripples that either heal and create or curse and destroy. Let me repeat: Everything.","author":"Alaric Hutchinson","tags":["consciousness","contrast","growth","inner-peace","inspirational","law-of-attraction","mindfulness","perspective","power-of-thoughts","power-of-words","psychology","purpose","spiritual","teaching","transcendence","wisdom","zen"],"id":66049,"author_id":"Alaric+Hutchinson"},{"text":"I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell.","author":"Tom Holland","tags":["conquests","contrast","evil","good-and-evil","heaven-and-hell","observation","observations","villain"],"id":86172,"author_id":"Tom+Holland"},{"text":"[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who does not climb the mountain of Christ does indeed fall into the abyss of Buddha.","author":"G.K. Chesterton","tags":["audacity","belief","beliefs","compare","comparison","contrast","darkness","death","life","opposites","philosophy","religion","worldview"],"id":88849,"author_id":"G.K.+Chesterton"},{"text":"Yet, although he could not quite work this out in simple terms in his own mind, the very savour of life, he thought, was itself enhanced if it were not totally taken for granted. Perhaps it was something to do with the whole philosophy of the world into which we were born. If we lived for ever, who would look forward eagerly to tomorrow? If there were no darkness, should we appreciate the sun? Warmth after cold, food after hunger, drink after thirst, sexual love after the absence of sexual love, the fatherly greeting after being away, the comfort and dryness of home after a ride in the rain, the warmth and peace and security of one’s fireside after being among enemies. Unless there was contrast there might be satiety.","author":"Winston Graham","tags":["appreciation","contrast","philosophy","ross-poldark"],"id":104264,"author_id":"Winston+Graham"},{"text":"I don't really wanna know what makes you leave, or when you'll be back.I just wanna know what will make me cry at your arrival.","author":"Ade Santi","tags":["contrast","deep-thoughts","life","tragedy"],"id":115807,"author_id":"Ade+Santi"},{"text":"But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.","author":"Sarah Dessen","tags":["adversity","contrast","life"],"id":116450,"author_id":"Sarah+Dessen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":43,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}