Famous quotes containing the words absolute and/or paradox:
“Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“... it is the desert’s grimness, its stillness and isolation, that bring us back to love. Here we discover the paradox of the contemplative life, that the desert of solitude can be the school where we learn to love others.”
—Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)