45 quotes
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness it took me years to understand that this too was a gift”
— Mary Oliver
“The darker the night the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief the closer is God.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
— Aristotle
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“To go in the dark with a light is to know the light to know the dark go dark go without sight and find that the dark too blooms and sings”
— Wendell Berry
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
— Desmond Tutu
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness and it took me years to understand that this too was a gift”
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars and faith is the ability to see stars when others see only night”
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: nobody knew the color of the darkness that enveloped them.”
— Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
“It is in the darkest moments that we must focus to see the light”
— Native American Proverb
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious with compassion”
— Carl Jung
“It is always darkest just before the day dawns.”
— Thomas Fuller
“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.”
— Unknown
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift.”
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness and it took me years to understand that this too was filled with wonder”
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light”
— Helen Keller
“Truly it is in the darkness that one finds the light so when we are in sorrow then this light is nearest of all and it comes simply”
— Meister Eckhart
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.”
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness in my family. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift.”
“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 for it shows me the stars.”
— Og Mandino
“Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.”
— Oliver Goldsmith
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
“One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check but that is not what I have found I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay and kindness is chief among them”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that and compassion is that light”
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
— Victor Hugo
“Faith sees best in the dark for it is precisely when we cannot see that faith is most needed”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The darkness around us is deep”
— Robert Bly
“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.”
— Anne Lamott
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise bringing compassion with its light”
“The darker the night the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief the closer is the dawn of peace.”
“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.”
“In the darkness two shadows reaching through the hopeless heavy dusk their hands met and light spilled in a flood like a survey of the sun”
— Madeline Miller
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