Willingly accept the complexity and the contradictions of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You didn't get stamped out of a mold. You aren't a "black person" or a "white person," a "fat person" or a "skinny person," a "bad person" or a "good person." You are a highly complex human being with emotions, beliefs, capabilities. Each day you face challenges to your health, relationships, finances, and world-view -- and every day you respond to those challenges in ways which are unique to you.
Honor and love all of your unique self. Never diminish yourself with self-applied labels or categorizations.
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem.
We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
- Harold Evans
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
For every complex problem,
there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma,
a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own
mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco
Further reading: All Life is Paradox
Lessons from Life
Stand Rapt in Awe