Browsing Topic Best Light And Darkness Quotes

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

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

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

Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.

The same polarity of the male and female principle exists in nature; not only, as is obvious in animals and plants, but in the polarity of the two fundamental functions, that of receiving and penetrating. It is the polarity of earth and rain, of the river and the ocean, of night and day, of darkness and light, of matter and spirit.

The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end.

I look at the stars again. Daddy says he named me Starr because I was his light in the darkness. I need some light in my own darkness right about now.

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

The pendulum swings between Light and Darkness

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.

If you’re going to stand up for Jesus, your life will be a battle between light and darkness. And for everything that God will bring into your life that represents the light, the devil-he’s such a sly fox-will come at you with two times more attributes of evil.

I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light happened to be available. I’d want it to be very graphic – about darkness and light. No one else should be there, but I’m scared to do it by myself. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. The whole idea of a self-portrait is strange. I’m so strongly linked to how I see through the camera that to get to the other side of it would be difficult. It would be as if I were taking a photograph in the dark.

When its dark enough you can see the stars.

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

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

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil…the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe.

There exists an infinite universe between the boundaries of light and darkness; the photographer explores this chasm in a ship of the imagination, that is the camera.

You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind’s desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener – he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand.

Men’s private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world’s seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.

In the universe, there is darkness and light. We call this duality. When you seek knowledge and power, there are forces and people that will oppose you.

You will find ambiguity a great ally on your road to power. Give a sign of Slytherin on one day, and contradict it with a sign of Gryffindor the next; and the Slytherins will be enabled to believe what they wish, while the Gryffindors argue themselves into supporting you as well. So long as there is uncertainty, people can believe whatever seems to be to their own advantage. And so long as you appear strong, so long as you appear to be winning, their instincts will tell them that their advantage lies with you. Walk always in the shadow, and light and darkness both will follow.

The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us, and then it’s up to the individual (or the family, or the society) to decide what will be brought forth – the virtues or the malevolence. The madness of this planet is largely a result of human being’s difficulty in coming into virtuous balance with himself. Lunacy (both collective and individual) results.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

To heal the ancient battle between darkness and light, we may find that it’s less about defeating one or the other, and more about choosing our relationship to both.

The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,…The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being’s difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.

Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions.

It’s nice if you love a liberated person, and you should, because they love you. They’re lovable. They’re children playing in a very, very unusual world filled with vortexes of dancing darkness and light.

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