Shania Twain Quotes

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

You can't have bad without good. You can't have right without wrong. You can't have fantastic without mundane. You need to experience all that to really earn the title of the film, 'Fantastic Four.'

To appreciate the sun you gotta know what rain is.

You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

What darkness to you is light to me

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.

However much I may be impressed by the difference between a star and the dark space around it, I must not forget that I can see the two only in relation to each other, and that this relation is inseparable.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

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

From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.

Without the darkness, we can't really appreciate the light

The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I don't believe in bad. I believe in relativity. The only way we can know what we call good is if there's also something we call bad.

You can't appreciate a great day unless you've experienced bad ones." - Rabbi Glassman

What is joy without sorrow? What is success without failure? What is a win without a loss? What is health without illness? You have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. There is always going to be suffering. It’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.

When everyone sees good, then bad exists.

How could any of us truly appreciate our lives if we had nothing else to compare them to?

To love light, you have to love dark. I'm not trying to be profound, I know you'll understand. I don't mean that you have to hate to love, or that you have to die to live. I mean that sometimes, you turn out the lights just to turn them back on.

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.