Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens
The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
Madeleine L'Engle - A Ring of Endless Light
9Don't underestimate the allure of darkness. Even the poorest hearts are drawn to it.
Niklaus Mikaelson in The Vampire Diaries - Season 4
7I'm at war with the world and they try to pull me into the dark.
I struggle to find my faith, as I'm slippin from your arms.
I struggle to find my faith, as I'm slippin from your arms.
Skillet - AWAKE AND ALIVE, Album: Awake
7The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.
Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.
That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good f*cking life.
The happiest people don't worry too much about whether life is fair ot not, they just get on with it.
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
The difference between the novice and the master is that the master has failed more times than the novice has tried.
We are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters.
Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.
Heather Brewer in Vladimir Tod - Eighth Grade Bites
1Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.
Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden
As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.
A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.
Zeus in Hercules
11It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.
What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.
Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand.
Things we can't see affect our lives much more than we think.
Tokyo in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 4
5Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.
Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.
Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.
It's been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job - but I love my country more.
Joe Biden - August 2024
I am sorry on behalf of most, if not close to all, of Australia at this point. I'm sorry about Raygun and that we broke dancing.
Ozzy Man Reviews - August 2024