Josh Trank Quotes

In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.

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

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.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

Every side of a coin has another side.

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.

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.'

If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.

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

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

If you don't have negative experiences, you have no way to gauge the positive ones, and you have no way to deal with it.

You'd never be able to appreciate what's good in life if you've never experienced the bad.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other. Voice and sound harmonize each other. Front and back follow one another.

This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.

You can't have something without nothing.

Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.