There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

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You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
ARLO GUTHRIE

Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, ...
CHARLES DE LINT When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me...
GARY F EVANS...

Darkness is nothing
but an opportunity
to spread light
JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ Thy dark eyes beckon me into the darkest nether world of dark galaxies and darker supernovas. Foreve...
AVIJEET DAS It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light yo...
LIBBA BRAY

Darkness cannot survive in light, but a light can shine in the dark!
ODILLE RAULT

Darkness cannot survive in light. But a light can shine in the dark
ODILLE RAULT

For the light to exist, there must be the dark. For the Force, there must be balance.
GREG RUCKA People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.
C.J. ROBERTS Just remember, a dark shadow need light to exist but light doesn't need darkness to be luminous.
GWEN HAYES No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with whi...
ROBERT AICKMAN

She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around...
JODI PICOULT

Twas said better to light a candle than curse the dark...
ROBERT MCCAMMON

I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, theres a bright day...
TUPAC SHAKUR

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the ...
THEODORE PARKER Always remember that there will be a source of light at the end of every dark tunnel. You just need ...
MEHUL DESAI You are my dark turned to bright, the day into my light. A vision of splendour to my lights, light.
TRUTH DEVOUR Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON

It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that da...
TED DEKKER You can walk in the Light or you can grope around in the dark because there is no walking with Jesus...
R. ALAN WOODS

She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
SARAH J. MAAS

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.
JODI PICOULT

Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI You dread the darkness because there is no light, but the absence of light should be the last thing ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE

Darkness is more than a shade of nightfall. It is a feeling as though there has been an eclipse not ...
ANDREW KENDALL

When there's darkness around you, shine your light even brighter.
JEANETTE CORON You must know, the day your star exploded into my universe, you altered it all. You exposed my light...
JENNIFER DELUCY

The light of day showed you the limits of possibility. But walk through the dark, the absolute, tota...
MICHAEL GRANT

Remember that light becomes evident in darkness. We do not create light by avoiding those who are ca...
C. JOYBELL C. It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on.
JULIEN TORMA

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everyth...
STEPHEN KING Before you dive in head first, make sure the water is not shallow.
KATHERINE DIVOLIS This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others ...
N.K. JEMISIN I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE Control is an illusion, as is restraint. Dark to light, light to darkness.
TRUTH DEVOUR You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to ba...
THOMAS KINKADE

Light is shallow; darkness is infinitely deep. Light is always bounded, it has boundaries. Darkness ...
OSHO

My light was held in the dark until I was ready. The darkness is not a thing to fear, simply a place...
KELLY MARTIN

Advice for a human.

87. Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a G...
MATT HAIG In the dark, there is silence but in the light there is warmth.
SONYA WATSON

In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.
KAMI GARCIA

Have you found a stairs to the light? The first thing you must do is to inform others so that you ca...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will ...
SHANNON L. ALDER Stars shine with gusto throughout their existence, whether it is dark or light. However, if you stan...
BAMBI DEAN

Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.
DAVE EGGERS

The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ...and yet no endless sorrow.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX It is now lighted, Let's enjoy the Light, learn and walk in the Light so we may see the rough roads ...
VICTOR SUR

If you put out another's candle, you also will be in the dark
GERMAN PROVERB True spirituality does not require the need of an external middleman or mediator (priest, rabbi, gur...
THE INNER LIGHT Life is A Strange thing.. There is a time come when you loss your faith, Love, Mind, Dignity & Every...
DINACE KUMAR C When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with...
YVES ROSSY

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

As long as that song plays, I get to put my hands on you, and I can’t guarantee I’m going to be ...
MEREDITH WILD

Just give me one night, Vanessa. One night, and I won’t let you regret it.
MEREDITH WILD And so I tell you, restless one, that no matter what happens, when things get dark, look to the ligh...
SETH ADAM SMITH

I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part...
ANNE LAMOTT

no light no dark no you no me
know light know dark know you know me
KAMI GARCIA

Numb the dark and you numb the light.
BRENé BROWN

I'm out, surrounded in dark. But in the distance there is a small glow, a tiny light. Suddenly I'm s...
SUZANNE YOUNG

For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light.
The only thing th...
DEAN KOONTZ There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
ROBERT ALDEN There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle
ROBERT ALDEN Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
CHINESE PROVERB

Better to light a candle, than to curse the darkness.
UNKNOWN Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many diff...
ANNA GUNN

The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER When you embrace the things you do not understand, you understand what is embraced
JOHN M SHEEHAN

Well, I'm more lopsided than a one legged badger," mewed Graypaw, breaking off from his carful stalk...
ERIN HUNTER

I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of cours...
JON KRAKAUER

My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER

To see a candle’s light, one must take it into a dark place.
URSULA K. LE GUIN

The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy int...
BRENé BROWN

What we don’t bring into light, and don’t acknowledge to ourselves, grows in the dark.
DRAGOS BRATASANU

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning come...
JESSE JACKSON Darkness will always try to extinguish the light. The light will always try to repress the darkne...
MORGAN RHODES Sometimes it’s not the light in a person that you fall in love with, but the dark. Sometimes it’...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Sometimes it's not the light in a person you fall in love with, but the dark. Sometimes it's not the...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Your sight takes you where there is light... But your visions can take you through the dark places! ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Never deny in the dark, what you know to be true in the light
PROVERB May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's better to light a candle then to curse the darkness.
DR. CARL SAGAN I found myself in the dark, found her in the dark. I found light and truth in the darkness, hiding t...
STACI HART The door closed and darkness claimed the room.
R.J. LAWRENCE It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
UNKNOWN John 1:5

"Light shines into the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it
ANONYMOUS Stop looking at the dark part of life .Look for the light in positive frame of mind in every dark si...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you make a choice to walk into the darkness, eventually you may come to know that love is the inv...
JENNIFER SODINI Oh shut up. Every time it rains, it stops raining. Every time you hurt, you heal. After darkness, th...
PLEASEFINDTHIS Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness
CHINESE PROVERBS Though it's fearful,
Though it's deep, though it's dark
And though you may lose the path...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Lets always endeavor to make sure the light always defeats the dark in the quest for money,because m...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) War is like a dark tunnel: You may only see the light once you are out of it.
CHRISTOPHER FEBVRE You must be strong now. You must never give up. And when people make you cry and you are afraid of t...
JOEY LAUREN ADAMS You cannot defeat darkness by running from it, nor can you conquer your inner demons by hiding them ...
SETH ADAM SMITH Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it...
KIRK CAMERON All the darkness of the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle, yet one candle can ill...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

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JODI PICOULT I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves m...
JODI PICOULT Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it...
JODI PICOULT Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots ...
JODI PICOULT On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm ...
JODI PICOULT I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved s...
JODI PICOULT When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, t...
JODI PICOULT Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you...
JODI PICOULT Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved y...
JODI PICOULT There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations
JODI PICOULT I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitti...
JODI PICOULT It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that did...
JODI PICOULT It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the spee...
JODI PICOULT Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else?
JODI PICOULT ...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be ...
JODI PICOULT I'm really proud of (
JODI PICOULT When you read the art,
JODI PICOULT You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives.
JODI PICOULT Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w...
JODI PICOULT In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa...
JODI PICOULT They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th...
JODI PICOULT She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e...
JODI PICOULT The truth is the truth.
JODI PICOULT Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l...
JODI PICOULT High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug...
JODI PICOULT When heaven breaks, who fixes it?
JODI PICOULT Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D...
JODI PICOULT newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas
JODI PICOULT From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c...
JODI PICOULT His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe...
JODI PICOULT Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid.
JODI PICOULT Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.
JODI PICOULT Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
JODI PICOULT When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p...
JODI PICOULT I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon...
JODI PICOULT Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al...
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There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

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There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

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