{"quotes":[{"text":"If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike as Nietzsche and I, they suffer from their differences.","author":"H.F. Peters","tags":["differences","friends","friendship","lou-andreas-salomé","nietzsche","opposites-attract"],"id":16187,"author_id":"H.F.+Peters"},{"text":"The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more.' She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. 'A diamond doesn't know how much it's worth; it's just beautiful because it exists.","author":"Shelly Crane","tags":["beautiful","diamonds","diamonds-in-the-rough","fantasy","forbidden-love","inspirational","maxton","new-adult-fiction","opposites-attract","romance","science-fiction","science-fiction-young-adult","self-esteem","shelly-crane","sophelia","worthiness","young-adult"],"id":22378,"author_id":"Shelly+Crane"},{"text":"If you were truly 'here for me,' you would have a Kahlua in one hand and Henry Cavill's number in the other. Since I'm not having drunken phone sex with Superman, there must be another reason you're darkening my living room.","author":"Naima Simone","tags":["alpha-hero","best-friends-brother","opposites-attract","romantic-suspense"],"id":45002,"author_id":"Naima+Simone"},{"text":"My simple explanation of why we human beings, the most advanced species on earth, cannot find happiness, is this: as we evolve up the ladder of being, we find three things: the first, that the tension between the range of opposites in our lives and society widens dramatically and often painfully as we evolve; the second, that the better informed and more intelligent we are, the more humble we have to become about our ability to live meaningful lives and to change anything, even ourselves; and consequently, thirdly, that the cost of gaining the simplicity the other side of complexity can rise very steeply if we do not align ourselves and our lives well.","author":"Dr Robin Lincoln Wood","tags":["adaptation","anthropacy","autognosis","autonomies","autopolesis","biosphere","british-","complex","difficult","earths-future","economist","evolution","finding-happiness","finding-well-being","future-humanity","good-life","good-life-examples","heaven","hell","holarchy","homo-sapiens","human-condition","human-development","humanity","imperfect-adaptation","inspirational","integral-philosopher","ken-wilber","men-empowerment","opposites-attract","paradise","post-modern-philosopher","self-creation","self-help","self-knowledge","species","thriving","unhappiness","well-being","women-empowerment"],"id":60842,"author_id":"Dr+Robin+Lincoln+Wood"},{"text":"Sometimes you have to go ‘yippee-ki-yay’ on a person who deserves it.","author":"Naima Simone","tags":["alpha-hero","best-friends-brother","opposites-attract","romantic-suspense"],"id":63911,"author_id":"Naima+Simone"},{"text":"The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given wealth, fame, and power, yet his soul yearned only for spiritual peace so that he could silence the shadows in his heart...","author":"Carlos Ruiz Zafón","tags":["fame","life","opposites-attract","peace","power","wealth","yearning"],"id":132325,"author_id":"Carlos+Ruiz+Zaf%C3%B3n"},{"text":"The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["attract","attraction","augment","balance","better","boyfriend","burden","burdened","companion","complement","dating","dating","energies","energy","girlfriend","harmonize","harmony","husband","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","love","love","loved","lover","loving","opposite","opposites","opposites-attract","ourself","ourselves","partner","personalities","personality","quote","reason","relationship","salvation","save","saviour","type","union","unity","wife","yin-and-yang"],"id":145317,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"He’s so outta my league, we’re not even playing the same sport… He’s professional soccer in Europe and I’m intramural badminton in the States.","author":"Nicki Elson","tags":["dating","humor","opposites-attract"],"id":157756,"author_id":"Nicki+Elson"},{"text":"All life depends upon the opportunistic interplay between elemental forces, the mysterious dualities of the numinous universe. Ying and yang forces of the natural world (lightness and darkness, fire and water, expansion and contraction) create tangible dualities that are complementary, interconnected, and independent. Without the firmament in the midst of the waters, without both sunshine and water, no life forms could subsist on this rocky orb. Without the rich soil surrounded by a canopy of an illimitable sky how could we feed ourselves, how could we breathe?","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["dualism","dualistic-thinking","duality","duality-of-opposites","earth-and-soul","forces-of-darkness","forces-of-nature","inter-connectivity","interconnection","life","lightness-and-darkness","love","love","love-and-sayings","opposites-attract","opposition","ying-yang"],"id":173176,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"I don't want forever. I never did... I just want right now.","author":"Naima Simone","tags":["alpha-hero","best-friends-brother","opposites-attract","romantic-suspense"],"id":175711,"author_id":"Naima+Simone"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}