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  • Yin and Yang are one vital force -- the primordial aura. -- Wang Yangming
  • Whenever you're making a dark comedy, you're always looking for the yin and yang in an actor. -- Jamie Babbit
  • Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent. -- Dr. Seuss
  • The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer. -- Shulamith Firestone
  • The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition. -- Philip Zimbardo
  • I feel like I always had a yin and yang experience with music. I've always been able to rock out, and then I've always had to take piano lessons, too. -- Son Lux
  • The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends. -- Candis Cayne
  • It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil...the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe. -- Confucius
  • The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang. -- Morihei Ueshiba
  • I'll believe it if I see it" for dogs translates to "I'll believe it if I smell it." So don't bother yelling at them; it's the energy and scent they pay attention to, not your words. -- Cesar Millan
  • There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not yin and yang that do this, it is your heart that makes it so. -- Zhuangzi
  • Stillness and action are relative, not absolute, principles. It is important to find a balance of yin and yang, not just in qigong, but in everyday life. In movement, seek stillness and rest. In rest, be mindful and attentive. -- Ken Cohen
  • Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all about yin and yang. And that's not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant. -- Fran Drescher
  • You make sexiness strong by balancing it out: something familiar with something unfamiliar, something masculine with something feminine, something streamlined with something rococo. It's a Yin and Yang. Women are made of layers, your mood shifts, no one is neither one extreme nor the other. -- Michael Kors
  • All of our punishment institutions, including jails, laws, church confessionals, and so forth, are systems of illusion. The order of the universe, the infinite justice of yin and yang, naturally takes care of all motion and compensation. We don't need to invent arbitrary ways to make balance with punishments. -- Michio Kushi
  • If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist. -- Seth Godin
  • Femininity doesn't always relate to being a woman and masculinity doesn't always relate to being a man; it's a quality of being-ness. Women have to portray the quality of masculinity; society wants it to be like a man; not necessarily male, but like a man. If that makes sense...In nature itself, there's yin and yang, there's masculine and feminine. -- Hamid Drake
  • Only here [in the Center] a new union can occur, as the Mysterious Pass is the ideal space and time to experience the interpenetrating fluctuations of Yin and Yang. The Mysterious Pass is therefore the primordial Chaos (hundun) containing the germ of life-the pre-cosmic sparkle of Original Yang and Original Yin-which is the prime mover and the materia prima of the alchemical work. -- Monica Esposito
  • Responsibility and Trust -- these two are like Yin and Yang, together perfectly complete, and each one requiring the presence of the other. The next time you mistrust someone, consider this -- does that person feel responsible for you in any way? If the answer is yes, then go ahead and trust them. Very likely, they are looking out for your best interest. -- Vera Nazarian
  • The physical universe was created when Oneness became duality, and we can see this duality, this yin and yang, everywhere in the universe, in every atom, every action, and in every function of the human body. Yin and yang are manifest everywhere, except at the very center of being, the perfect point of balance, at that infinite moment where the future becomes the past. -- Robert Tisserand
  • Presumably, as a Martial artist, I do not fight for gain or loss, am not concerned with strength or weakness, and neither advance a step nor retreat a step. The enemy does not see me. I do not see the enemy. Penetrating to a place where heaven and earth have not yet divided, where yin and yang have not yet arrived, I quickly and necessarily gain effect. -- Takuan Soho
  • We are the yin and the yang of the creative process. -- Cynthia Weil
  • Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang -- Laozi
  • Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction. -- Ray Davies
  • There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang -- Lisa See
  • Ribbing, moss, seed, and garter are all balanced and combine the yin and yang of knitting -- Stephanie Pearl McPhee
  • All things carry yin and embrace yang. They reach harmony by blending with the vital breath. -- Laozi
  • For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds. -- Amy Tan
  • In Taoist philosophy, 'yin' is the feminine principle, representing the forces of earth, while 'yang' is the masculine principle, representing spirit. -- Marianne Williamson
  • I like the yin-yang of a cop's life, where he's part fascist and part saint. That's where the good dramas are. -- Clark Johnson
  • I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang. -- Heidi Klum
  • The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai chi. -- Frederick Lenz
  • Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs - Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; whats pleasure without pain? -- Angelina Jolie
  • When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for. -- Lou Reed
  • To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang. -- Adam Arkin
  • What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you. -- Frederick Lenz
  • Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole. -- Bruce Lee
  • Qi gong therapy, as well as other branches of Chinese medicine, can be reduced to two simple principles: the cleansing of meridians to achieve harmonious energy flow, and the restoration of yin-yang balance. -- Wong Kiew Kit
  • As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
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