Yang Quotes

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)
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. View quote
Bruce Lee
Mao is a strange man whose personality is like the Tao, sometimes yin and sometimes yang; he has a soft-as-cotton outer layer, but at the same time has sharp needles hiding inside... I do not think he will achieve anything, in the end, he will be crushed inside my palm. View quote
Chiang Kai-shek
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. View quote
Michio Kushi
That is the truth. Not the hammer and sickle. Not the stars and stripes. Not the cross. Not the sun. Not gold. Not yin and yang. View quote
John Fowles
For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds. View quote
Amy Tan
Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent. View quote
Dr. Seuss
There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang. View quote
Lisa See
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. View quote
Candis Cayne
We are the yin and the yang of the creative process. View quote
Cynthia Weil
If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer. (Hal Sparks)
What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons. View quote
Kal Penn
Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?' Jem: 'Yang guizi ... foreign devils. View quote
Cassandra Clare
The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer. View quote
Shulamith Firestone
There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have dinner. It's very much run for locals and they serve the catch of the day, which might be lobster, white snapper or squid. It's ridiculously reasonable, too. View quote
Tony Parsons
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced. View quote
Terence McKenna
The suicide bomber is an explosion of a contradiction in its paradox, victim and victimizer, yin and yang, two sides of the coin, fire bomb and fire extinguisher, prosecutor and defendant, hangman and hanged. View quote
Giannina Braschi
The absolute universe is one. Then two opposing forces appeared, and the relative world was born. In the orient this dualism is called ‘yin' and ‘yang', in the west, ‘plus' and ‘minus'. View quote
Koichi Tohei
It's no accident that so many fabled rock ensembles have had two contrasting leaders (Lennon and McCartney, Jagger and Richards, Plant and Page, Bono and The Edge) to play off each other and cross-pollinate and, at times, butt heads. But Chris Martin completely dominates Coldplay; there's no yin to his smiley enraptured yang. He's the rock-king superstar the other band members all worship, humbly, as the genius who made their fates possible, and almost every moment of the band's creative energy is organized around what Chris is going to do next: the piano chords he's playing around with, the lyrics he's writing, his endless studio perfectionism. source. View quote
Chris Martin
Will and I are yin and yang. He's all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and I'm all earth. I'm here to ground him, and he's here to help me fly. View quote
Jada Pinkett Smith
It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will? (Lisa Gardner)
New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang. View quote
Vera Wang
A morning rain has settled the dust in Weicheng; Willows are green again in the tavern dooryard... Wait till we empty one more cup – West of Yang Gate there'll be no old friends. View quote
Wang Wei
The Chinese foreign minister Yang Jia Chi was in Bangalore Tuesday for a bilateral meeting. We are both quite satisfied with the extent of goodwill between us. We are working toward further cordiality between the two countries. The Chinese minister lingered at the dinner in his honor and such gestures indicate the level of relationship between our two countries. View quote
S. M. Krishna
Now therefore I, Al-Sultan Almu'tasimu Billahi Muhibbuddin Tuanku Alhaj Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'azam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, with this proclaim that I today had held the postition of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and had took oath required by Article 37 of the Federal Constitution with the step prescribed by the Article. View quote
Abdul Halim of Kedah