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Source: The Silver Star: A Novel

“However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud, in that pure empyrean where God dwells, to irradiate every darkness of this world; light enough to clear every difficult question, remove every ground of obscurity, conquer every atheistic suspicion, silence every hard judgment, light enough to satisfy, nay, to ravish the mind forever.”

Source: Sermons for the new life

“How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light!”

Ifs Heart Made Light Would Be Dark Simple Mystery Filled Glad Solitary Misunderstanding Reconciliation One Word Dwelling Knots Confiding

Book:Discourses on Human Life

Source: Discourses on Human Life

“People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.”

People Light Dark Candle Light Up

Author:Irwin Shaw

“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.”

Light Order Energy Dark Grace Cold Library Calm Warm Wit Lakes Reminders Librarian Continuity Reservoirs Libraries And Librarians

Author:Germaine Greer

“There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room like a solar lamp.”

Ifs Looks Light Dark Rooms Painting Golden Lamps Splendor Light Up Dark Room

Book:Six Months in Italy

Source: Six Months in Italy

“We who are crushed to earth with heavy chains, who travel a weary, rugged, thorny road, groping through midnight darkness on earth, earn our right to enjoy the sunshine in the great hereafter. At the grave, at least, we should be permitted to lay our burdens down, that a new world, a world of brightness, may open to us. The light that is denied us here should grow into a flood of effulgence beyond the dark, mysterious shadows of death.”

Source: Behind the scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White house

“Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto the train ... into the chair in the sickroom ... and is suddenly transported to a place where light fights dark and wins. When the story's over, one is left without a hangover, without remorse. Can any other opiate make that claim?”

Ifs Stories Light Fighting Winning Left Strong Dark Fiction Mystery Drink Bed Claims Train Chairs Companion Substitutes Slips Remorse Hangover Opiates Strong Drink

Author:Mary Cantwell

“I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's trick, that act of creation is its own light.”

Writing Light Found Dark Dangerous Creation Goes On Tricks Mysterious Magician Absorbing Found You

Author:Janette Turner Hospital

“You must never conclude, even though everything goes wrong, that you cannot succeed. Even at the worst there is a way out, a hidden secret that can turn failure into success and despair into happiness. No situation is so dark that there is not a ray of light”

Way Light Turns Dark Secret Situation Worst Succeed Despair Rays Rays Of Light Hidden Secrets

Book:The amazing results of positive thinking

Source: The amazing results of positive thinking

“I only like the live audience. I don't even like to do standup where it's being filmed. Because it affects the way the audience responds to what you say, because it makes them uncomfortable. You have to perform in a light room, and I prefer a dark room. But I love to perform, and I don't really see myself doing any television at all.”

Way Light Dark Rooms Audience Television Uncomfortable Dark Room

Author:Ron White

“If you know the dark, you find it has a light of its own to let you see.”

Ifs Knows Light Dark Darkness

Book:Murder comes to Eden

Source: Murder comes to Eden

“The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.”

Light Dark Darkness

Book:Heaven and Hardpan Farm

Source: Heaven and Hardpan Farm

“May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal and serve. May our images honor the ordinary endeavors of common people, and may they make their way to the eyes of the weary - light to the dark, fire to the chill.”

People Way May Light Eye Values Culture Dark Common Fire Honor Ordinary Sight Heal Endeavor Makers Ritual Weary Chill

Book:A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: A Wake Up Call

Source: A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: A Wake Up Call

“[Race] had no substance, like a shadowy shape that terrifies in the dark but vanishes by the light of day.”

Light Dark Race Shapes Substance

Book:From fear set free

Source: From fear set free

“Not many people know this about me, but I'm a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved the look then. So I'm basically a natural blonde.”

People Knows Looks Kind Children Light Mother Natural Dark Hair Blonde

Author:Angelina Jolie

“The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.”

Ifs World Looks Whole Light Dark Mystery Tree Grew Areas Whole World Forests Evening Christmas Tree Best Christmas

Author:Andy Rooney

“Now, on the longest day, light triumphs, and yet begins the decline into dark. We turn the Wheel for we have planted the seeds of our own changes, and to grow we must accept even the passing of the sun Set Sail See with clear eyes See how we shine!”

Light Eye Turns Grows Dark Accepting Sun Clear Shining Seeds Passing Passings Triumph Wheels Decline Sail Sun Set Clear Eyes

Author:Starhawk

“The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white skins, but their consciences are blacker than the skin of the Negro.”

Giving May Light Dark White Liberty Sky Conscience Skins Slavery Slave Deny White Skin

Author:Roman Baldorioty de Castro

“Hue does not refer to how light, dark, or intense, but only what kind of color: what hue. It takes all three aspects to make a color, therefore 'red' is not a color, but only one aspect, the hue, of some partially defined color.”

Kind Doe Light Three Dark Color Red Aspect Intense Defined Hue Light Dark

Author:William Tapley Bennett Jr.

“No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.”

Play Moments Light Can Do Dark Acting Four Stage Beats Breaths Productions Hats That Moment Drummer

Author:Ken Stott

“Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other words.”

Light Dark Awareness Buddhism Holy All Things Buddhist Cosmology

Author:Frederick Lenz

“That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space.”

“Don't google your name. Ever. Don't “search” for yourself on anything that glows in the dark. Don't let your beauty be something anyone can turn off. Don't edit your ugly out of your bio. Let your light come from the fire. Let your pain be the spark, but not the timber. Remember, you didn't come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.”

Writing Heart Light Pain Remember Turns Names Dark Fire Ugly Sparks Google Edits Remember You Remembers You Turn Off Timber Bios Glow In The Dark

Author:Andrea Gibson

“A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.”

Light Purpose Dark Keys Shining Checks Journalism Informing

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“You must go into the dark in order to bring forth your light.”

Light Order Dark

Author:Debbie Ford

“Essentially, in photography, I think on two levels: one emotional and the other technical. The emotional impact has to do with looking for something dramatic happening in the photograph, something that reaches out and touches somebody in some way. And the technical is having to do with composition and framing - light and dark, light and shadow.”

Thinking Way Two Light Dark Levels Emotional Photography Happenings Shadow Impact Photograph Dramatic Reach Out Composition Light And Dark Framing Light And Shadow

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.”

World Light Dark Becoming Oneself

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial killer's crimes and capture, yes, but it's also a compulsively readable story of how one brave woman faces up to acts of terrible violence in order to create something good and strong in the aftermath. Quiet Dell will be compared to In Cold Blood, but Phillips offers something Capote could not: a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity.”

“Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments - often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts of joy because we're too busy chasing down the extraordinary moments. Other times we're so afraid of the dark we don't dare let ourselves enjoy the light. A joyful life is not a floodlight of joy. That would eventually become unbearable. I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude and inspiration”

“You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows dimmer, things begin to become harder to see. I came to love you in time, but I feared the dark side as well. I still do. You have tremendous potential, potential for joy or hate, light or dark, life or death. But in the end, you choose. What a gift, what a joy to witness.”

Wells Stills Ends Self Light Joy Hate Grows Sides Dark Love You Harder Remains Ancient Witness You Choose Arrogant Puzzles Dark Side Loathing Self Loathing Life Or Death Dark Life

Author:Glenn Beck

“The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.”

Light Dark Perfect Cold Warm Antidote Creepy Cozy

Author:Candice Olson

“A man notices a womans figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.”

Men Light Dark Walks Rooms Millions Figures Blue Eight Dark Blue Light Blue

Author:Hallie Ephron

“We're all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.”

Sometimes Light Sides Dark Moon Dark Side

Book:Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

Source: Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

“This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren't even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you.”

People Believe Stills Light Able Wanted Individual Differences Dark Dear Glasses Wounds Preserves Sheep Status Quo Spiders Handful Flocks Jars Inquisition

Book:The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)

Source: The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)

“The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined.”

Light Eye Dark Quality Sea Demand Disappear Flames Centre Contradictory Brightness Undefined

Author:Alice Oswald

“When youre in a fighter jet and theres a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, its light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.”

World Light Dark Sun Elements Blue Clouds Connected Holes Fighter Just One Gray Layers Jet Another World Vertical Fighter Jets

Author:Yves Rossy

“I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.”

Source: Hard Times (And Other Stories)

“A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.”

Long Moments Light Nature Church Lines Dark Cities Sun Wall Cold Glory Bird Shining Silent West Winter Clouds Hills Streams Gloom Airy City Walls

Book:Martin Chuzzlewit

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit

“Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality - it's just a different morality than the loud voices of the Christian morality.... I can't tell you how many films I've turned down because there was an absence of morality. And I don't mean that from any sort of Judeo-Christian-Muslim point of view. I'm not saying they're wrong and can't be made. But, fundamentally, I'm such a humanist that I can't bear to make films that make us feel humanity is more dark than it is light.”

“Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.”

Mind Matter Light Together Dark Needed Worthwhile Galaxy Dark Matter

Book:The Humans: A Novel

Source: The Humans: A Novel

“The light ones may be killers, the dark ones mild; not the wrappers but the fillers, make cigars or women wild.”

May Light Dark Killers Cigar Fillers

Author:Keith Preston

“Great love -- the kind that illumines and transforms us -- always includes a keen awareness of limitation as well. Though love may inspire us to expand and develop in new ways, we can never be all things to the one we love, or someone other than who we are. Yet once accepted, limitation also helps us develop essential qualities, such as patience, determination, compassion, and humor. When love comes down to earth -- bringing to light those dark corners we would prefer to ignore, encompassing all the different parts of who we are -- it gains depth and power.”

Source: JOURNEY HEART PB

“The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to destruction. But, by God's goodness, in my time light and dignity were returned to letters, and I see there such improvement that today I would have great difficulty being admitted to the most elementary classes--I, who in my time was reputed to be (and not wrongly) to be the most knowledgeable person of the century.”

“The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.”

Light Eye Dark Color Shapes Perception Light And Dark

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“What shall we do my darling, when trial grows more, and more, when the dim, lone light expires, and it's dark, so very dark, and we wander, and know not where, and cannot get out of the forest - whose is the hand to help us, and to lead, and forever guide us? ... Where do you think I've strayed and from what new errand returned. I have come from to and fro, and walking up and down the same place that Satan hailed from when God asked where he'd been.”

Thinking Knows Helping Hands Light Grows Dark Forever Atheism Walking Positive Atheism Guides Trials Forests Wander Satan Up And Down Darling Lone Errands

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“That's the cool thing about horses - they don't have prejudice. They don't care if you're tall or thin or if you're dark or if you're light, or if you're rich or you're poor, if you're handsome or not so handsome.”

Ifs Light Care Dark Poor Rich Horse Prejudice Don't Care Tall Handsome Cool Things

Author:Buck Brannaman

“O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child their first approach beware, With firmness break the insidious snare, Lest as the acorns grew and throve Into a sun-encircled grove, Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree Shut out the light of Heaven from thee.”

“On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.”

War Light Jobs Time Evil President Dark Views Darkness Greater Effects Military Excellence Engines Engaging Orchestra Good Day Monarchy Friction Clutch Dark Days Forward Motion

Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti

“Let's have a merry journey, and shout about how light is good and dark is not. What we should do is not future ourselves so much. We should now ourselves. "Now thyself" is more important than "know thyself." Reason is what tells us to ignore the present and live in the future. So all we do is make plans. We think that somewhere there are going to be green pastures. It's crazy. Heaven is nothing but a grand, monumental instance of future. Listen, now is good. Now is wonderful.”

Thinking Knows Should Important Reason Light Heaven Dark Plans Wonderful Journey Crazy Future Green Instance Thyself Merry Know Thyself Pastures Green Pastures

Author:Mel Brooks

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