These Yin Yang quotes will inspire you. Yinyang, in Eastern thought, is the two complementary forces that make up all aspects and phenomena of life.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging Yin Yang quotes, Yin Yang sayings, and Yin Yang proverbs.
Best Yin Yang Quotes
- “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
- “Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs – Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; what’s pleasure without pain?” ~ Angelina Jolie , Yin yang quotes good and bad
- “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 , Yin yang quotes soul
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“The light is the left hand of darkness.” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
- “Countless words
count less
than the silent balance
between yin and yang” ~ Laozi - “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
- “The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to yin and yang. Yin and yang give birth to all things… The complete whole is the complete whole. So also is any part the complete whole… But forget about understanding and harmonizing and making all things one. The universe is already a harmonious oneness; just realize it.” ~ Laozi
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“Yin and Yang are one vital force — the primordial aura.” ~ Wang Yangming
- “This is a concept that western culture has forgotten: everything is one! The idea of dichotomy is deeply wrong and nothing is better than a great symbol of China, the Tao, the wheel of yin and yang that represents life. The universe is the harmony of opposites because there is no water without fire, there is no female with no male, there is no night without day, there is no sun without the moon … there is no good without evil! This symbol is perfect since the white and black are embracing each other; inside the white, there is a black point and inside the black, there is a white point.” ~ Tiziano Terzani
- “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
- “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.” ~ Jada Pinkett Smith
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“There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang” ~ Lisa See
- “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
- “So my message is in whichever realm, be it going into space or going into the deep sea, you have to balance the yin and yang of caution and boldness, risk aversion and risk-taking, fear, and fearlessness. No great accomplishment takes place, whether it be a movie or a deep ocean expedition, or a space mission, without a kind of dynamic equipoise between the two. Luck is not a factor. Hope is not a strategy. Fear is not an option.” ~ James Cameron , Yin yang quotes balance
- “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
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“Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “When you expect something, when you aim at something, right there you dilute your energy; you split your energy, you split your attention and it becomes more than the place of yin and yang. You do not only divide, but you create the problem.” ~ Taizan Maezumi
- “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
- “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
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“Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it’s unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.” ~ Seth Godin
- “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
- “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 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
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“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
- “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
- “Spiritual balance is tai chi. It is the center of things. It is the place where yin and yang meet. In the chakras, it is considered the heart chalkra, anahata.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “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
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“Whenever you’re making a dark comedy, you’re always looking for the yin and yang in an actor.” ~ Jamie Babbit
- “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
- “Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and
yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling. The biggest questions in science
and religion are about nothingness and eternity, the void and the infinite, zero and
infinity. The clashes over zero were the battles that shook the foundations of philosophy,
of science, of mathematics, and of religion. Underneath every revolution lay a
zero – and an infinity.” ~ Charles Seife - “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
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“Yin and Yang control man’s actions and both extremes are a natural reaction.” ~ Ray Davies
- “In the West when you talk about yin and yang, people normally think of yin and yang as something that’s linear. But in the east, we tend to think of yin and yang as circles. They’re two circles that actually can lie on top of each other, yet they remain separate.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “Sasuke is always in the corner of my mind. Naruto and Sasuke progress as a pair. So when I write about Naruto, I always have to think about Sasuke. They are on opposite sides of the spectrum, like yin and yang.” ~ Masashi Kishimoto
- “The Pentacle – The ancients envisioned their world in two halves – masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos.” ~ Dan Brown
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“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’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
- “Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by the spirit rather than the sexual organs. . . . Where ordinary intercourse unites sex organs with sex organs, angelic cultivation unites spirit with spirit, mind with mind, and every cell of one body with every cell of the other body.” ~ Laozi
- “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
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“I don’t know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white – yin and yang.” ~ Heidi Klum
- “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
- “Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this?” ~ Frederick Lenz
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“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
- “There are a lot of unspoken things with me and Nimai [Larson]. We’re very yin and yang, neither one of us really treads on each other’s toes. She’s this wizard of the rhythm world, and I know nothing about that, but I can dabble with melody and lyrics and that’s something she doesn’t really have any interest in. We complement each other in that way.” ~ Taraka Larson
- “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 material prima of the alchemical work.” ~ Monica Esposito
