“My own interest is the responsibility of people to be responsible for their own lives and, with their neighbors, for their public space and actions. To sing their own songs. To make their own inventions..To build and not just to envy. To light that candle which is so much better than cursing the darkness. To be as much as the human condition can sustain, rather than being only what a system can allow.” PeopleHumansLightActionSongInterestMy OwnSpaceResponsibilityDarknessConditionsResponsibleEnvyNeighborInventionCandleHuman ConditionBeing ResponsibleCursing Author:Karl Hess
“Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.” MenLongWantedFunnyHoursChanceCasesDarknessRiskConditionsDangerousMonthsColdFameDiseaseSmartLowsExtremesAccidentsCleverLabourBrutalWagesLimbsHazardsExpeditionsGreat RiskLong Hours Author:Ernest Shackleton
“The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.” HeartEnoughFactsProblemExistenceDarknessStruggleConditionsLaysSpeciesAdaptationNotoriousStruggle For ExistenceVariability Book:Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“The grace of God is abundant. It is for all lands, for all ages, for all conditions. It seems to undergird everything. Pardon for the worst sin, comfort for the sharpest suffering, brightest light for the thickest darkness.” LightSeemsAgeSufferingSinDarknessGraceLandWorstConditionsComfortGrace Of GodPardon Book:Daily Thoughts Source: Daily Thoughts
“Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress, trouble, fatigue--an exertion both painful and compulsory. Labor was our animal condition, struggling to survive in dirt and darkness.” HumanityFallAnimalDarknessStruggleGraceTroubleSacrificeConditionsLaborPainfulPurityDirtDistressToilHumiliationFatigueEnablingExertionCompulsoryStruggling To SurviveFalls From Grace Author:Shoshana Zuboff
“I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings.” PeopleThinkingWayBelieveHumansSoulCoursesDealsDarknessSadnessConditionsFiguresRageHorribleHuman ConditionUpbringingReservedFeeling SadReally SadSadness Of LifeRage And AngerSad SoulSadness And Anger Author:Kevin Bacon
“Often when people are diagnosed with a life-changing medical condition, they feel overwhelmed. They feel choked by darkness and hopelessness. Those are times when answers simply do not suffice. That's because answers don't always reach the problem where it hurts: in the gut and in the heart.” PeopleFeelsHeartProblemHurtAnswersDarknessConditionsMedicalLife ChangingGutsIt HurtsHopelessnessOverwhelmedMedical Conditions Author:Joni Eareckson Tada