Darkness To Light Quotes

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways – by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

I love lying in darkness.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

Life is a winking light in the darkness.

We don’t want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don’t want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that, in the end, there is light in the darkness.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we’re going. There’s something ahead worth fighting for.

History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still — that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

At the darkest moment comes the light.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light; Besides what hope the never-ending flight Of future days may bring, what chance, what change Worth waiting–since our present lot appears For happy though but ill, for ill not worst, If we procure not to ourselves more woe.

Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.

There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

So shines a good deed… in a weary world.

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.

Don’t fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear.

The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

Jon passes from Darkness to Light.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.

The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity which delights you and makes you giddy.

Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare to heed the desires of darkness.

Darkness is where we begin and where we end. We don’t usually see light traveling in darkness of space because we only can see its reflection on substance.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.

At night make me one with the darkness
In the morning make me one with the light.

In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.

I see light at the end of the tunnel.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

I found light in the darkness … or it found me.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are looking for a light in the darkness of their lives, a Good Samaritan who will stop and bandage a bruised heart or ego.

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

In the midst of death life persists.

You cannot poison what is between us with your foul words. She is my light in the darkness and Johnny is my pathway ahead.

What makes night within us may leave stars.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

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.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own ethics, and one who communicates truth is like a bright light in the darkness.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

If you are talented, don’t sit in the darkness, light a candle so that others can see you.