Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I believe every major strength we have can be used against us as a weakness. At the same time, things that people see as weakness can be part of our strength.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

In a certain way, we're always toggling back and forth between the absolute and the relative, if that makes sense.

Many times our weaknesses are extensions of our strengths.

A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.

Water is good, but if you have too much, you drown. So is water bad, or is it good? It's both.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally.

I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

Things do not change; we change.