"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"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
"I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are."
- Jess C. Scott
"By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness"
- Pablo Neruda
"We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a ..."
- E.M. Forster
"Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly."
- Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
"You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun."
- Shaun Hick
"How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole"
- C.G. Jung
"I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.I don't want it to win."
- Jasmine Warga
"The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark."
- Jeanette Winterson