Darkness
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.
You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
There is no darkness but ignorance.
There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.
The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness.
There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.
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