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“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
“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
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness and it took me years to understand that this too was a gift”
“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
“One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“It is always darkest just before the day dawns.”
— Thomas Fuller
“The darker the night the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief the closer is the dawn of peace.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“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
“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
“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”
“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
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise bringing compassion with its light”
— Victor Hugo
“It is in the darkest moments that we must focus to see the light”
— Native American Proverb
“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.”
— Carl Jung
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that and compassion is that light”
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
— Desmond Tutu
“Faith sees best in the dark for it is precisely when we cannot see that faith is most needed”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars and faith is the ability to see stars when others see only night”
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious with compassion”
“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 in my family. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift.”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.”
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
“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
“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
“The darkness around us is deep”
— Robert Bly
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
— Aristotle
“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
“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”
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light”
— Helen Keller
“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.”
— Unknown
“The darker the night the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief the closer is God.”
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