Japanese Proverb Quotes

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

Every side of a coin has another side.

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

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

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

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

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.'

Everything in life is gray, you know.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Out of all things bad, something good. Out of all things good, something bad.

The light is the left hand of darkness.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

Everything contains its antithesis.

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

There are two words for everything.