You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.
Edward Abbey
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Robert Alden
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.
Henri-Frederic Amiel
Burn brightly without burning out.
Richard Biggs
Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness.
Julia Cameron
Let thy light shine, then, in dark places.
Edgar Cayce
Just as light brightens darkness, discovering inner fulfillment can eliminate any disorder or discomfort. This is truly the key to creating balance and harmony in everything you do
Deepak Chopra
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai Lama
You need a room with no view so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
Annie Dillard
Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
Meister Eckhart
I said to my soul, be still, and wait...So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T.S. Eliot
The stillness shall be the dancing and the darkness the light.
T.S. Eliot
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
Galileo
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
Kahlil Gibran
We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that’s where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we’re busy denying.
Sue Grafton
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung
Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light, but making the darkness conscious.
Carl Jung
I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight, silence would teach him the joys of sound.
Helen Keller
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
Stephen King
People are like stained glass windows, the true beauty can be seen only when there is light from within. The darker the night, the brighter the windows.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
Anne Lamott
No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away.
David Matthew
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open – into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Henry Miller
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle Onassis
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
Norman Vincent Peale
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Chinese proverb
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
Ruth E. Renkel
Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
Norman B. Rice
If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.
Isabella Rossellini
Be a full bucket, pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into the light.
Rumi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
May Sarton
Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm. To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts, such is the duty of the artist.
Robert Schumann
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door – or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath Tagore
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain
From delusion lead me to truth. From darkness lead me to light. From death lead me to immortality.
Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad
Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released…often, it is not a change in partners but rather a change in perception that delivers us to the love we seek.
Marianne Williamson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.
Marianne Williamson
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
Yoda
