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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.
TAO TE CHING
When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts. -Lao Tzu.
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DR HITESH C SHETH
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WAYNE DYER
You cannot defeat darkness by running from it, nor can you conquer your inner demons by hiding them ...
SETH ADAM SMITH
Life brings darkness so many times, and we feel down in this phase of darkness. But the true value o...
JOHN MAGOSS
Life isn't just about darkness or light, rather it's about finding light within the darkness.
LANDON PARHAM
Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling...
LAO TZU
Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wi...
BHAGAVAD GITA
Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of w...
BHAGAVAD GITA
Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.
DEAN KOONTZ
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
PROVERB
The light within the darkness- you've lost sight of it.
SHIRO AMANO
Darkness have consumed me, the light within me is gone.
ALEXANDER STRANDH
Two things of trust in this life - The sun to rise and upon its setting darkness. Within darkness, T...
IAN IJH HOWELL
Dont fear the darkness, for we find ourselves the most within.
MAXWELL MORGAN INGRAM
Too much thinking causes confusion and anxiety
better to stick with the simplicity of Tao
LAO TZU
What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin...
ANISH KAPOOR
Dare to believe that God within you is greater than any darkness out there
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Just as the morning light sweeps away the night, the darkness within me began to be chased away by a...
ANASAZI FOUNDATION
The goal is, to conquer an enemy without fighting, win a debate without arguing, solve a problem wit...
DR HITESH C SHETH
When you embrace the things you do not understand, you understand what is embraced
JOHN M SHEEHAN
All the darkness of the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle, yet one candle can ill...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Darkness does not exist at all. It is merely the absence of light but it is essential for being ther...
Q. M. SIDD
Man ought to fear the darkness, not that surrounds him, but that which breeds within his heart
KIRAN RADHAKRISHNAN
when you fall into darkness do not spend all your energy and light rather than to remain in darkness...
KAMARAN IHSAN SALIH
Darkness is not always darkness
ITACH UCHIHA
All darkness has to take in light
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR.
To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it ...
LAO TZU
In the absence of light, darkness prevails; but in darkness a seed seeks light. Thus, darkness is a ...
KAMAAL DAKARI CONNOLLY
Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confrontin...
NANCY A. COLLINS
You are not what you are;
You are darkness
Looking for light within.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness t...
SARAH J. MAAS
There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness t...
SARAH J. MAAS
Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear.
MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI
Darkness and light, it's all about the balance.
SHAUN CASSIDY
Light can devour the darkness but darkness cannot consume the light.
KEN POIROT
Darkness may cover light, but that is not the same thing as putting it out. Whereas, to overcome dar...
CAMERON DOKEY
Lao Tzu once said, 'Nature doesn’t hurry, yet everything is accomplished.'

A single see...
JENNIFER SODINI
The light shines in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.
BIBLE
Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom t...
EDWARD HERRMANN
And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
ANONYMOUS
A light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never overcome it.
JOHN THE EVANGELIST
You start with a darkness to move through
but sometimes the darkness moves through you.
DEAN YOUNG
Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Darkness cannot penetrate light, whereas Light can shine through darkness.
SALEEM RUSTOM
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a compreh...
CARL JUNG
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a compreh...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before other...
LAO TZU
Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.
MARGARET STOHL
It's not easy to be Light when you've been Dark. It's almost too much to ask anyone.
-Macon Rav...
MARGARET STOHL
It’s so dark - as if all the lights are just there to make the other places seem darker.
MARGARET MAHY
Darkness will always try to extinguish the light. The light will always try to repress the darkne...
MORGAN RHODES
When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
SARAH J. MAAS
Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light.
KAMI GARCIA
When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
SARAH J. MAAS
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
FRANZ KAFKA
Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the e...
STEPHEN KING
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks f...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
CHINESE PROVERB
Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again pl...
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
And out of darkness came the hands That reach thro' nature, moulding men.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over...
BIBLE
In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace
SOPHOCLES
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
The charm dissolves apace; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
CHARLES AUSTIN BEARD
...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
STEPHEN KING
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
EDWARD ABBEY
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before; ...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON)
Dark as pitch.
JOHN BUNYAN
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to w...
PROVERB
Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Even a small star shines in the darkness.
DANISH PROVERB
Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.
JOHN MILTON
Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair ...
JOAQUIN MILLER (PSEUDONYM OF CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER)
To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darknes...
TERRY PRATCHETT
The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
So we follow our wandering paths, and the very darkness acts as our guide and our doubts serve to re...
JEAN-PIERRE DE CAUSSADE
We've come a long way, but it's like nibbling at the edge of darkness.
BENJAMIN L. HOOKS
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to...
JOHN LOCKE
And the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.
WILLIAM H. GASS
What of the Darkness? Is it very fair?
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE
Though they did not kiss, / Yet still between his Darkness and his Brightness / There passed a mutua...
LORD BYRON
Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness
TERRY PRATCHETT
While the cock with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin; And to the stack, or the barn do...
JOHN MILTON
You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great d...
ROBERT PLANT
Remember, it is better to light one little candle than to curse the darkness.
FRANK GORSHIN
You destroy darkness by your radiance.
SAM VEDA
The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts ...
CARSON MCCULLERS
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Darkness approaches from outside.
I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE
Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundre...
RAINER MARIA RILKE
When the sun sleeps, the darkness awakens! When the shepherd disappears, the wolf appears on the hor...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

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Though neighboring communities overlook one an...
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Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful ...
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He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu
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Close your mouth,
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blunt your sharpness,
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Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
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knowing yourself is true wisdom.
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Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
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He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
LAO TZU
When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorro...
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his...
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect ...
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Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lack...
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see...
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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest ...
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Silence is a source of great strength.
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Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
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Stop thinking, and end your problems.
LAO TZU
Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
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Love is a decision - not an emotion!
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Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
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He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
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Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus go...
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