"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of..." - Mary Oliver

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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.”

Oliver transforms painful experience into eventual gratitude and understanding.

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“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.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“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

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”

— Desmond Tutu

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

— Victor Hugo

“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

“One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.”

— Kahlil Gibran