Sam Tuttle > Sam's Quotes

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

“Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.”
― Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

“In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

“Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“It's not easy to be Light when you've been Dark. It's almost too much to ask anyone.
-Macon Ravenwood”
― Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Darkness

“Just remember, a dark shadow need light to exist but light doesn't need darkness to be luminous.”
― Gwen Hayes, Dreaming Awake

“Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort of light coming from within her that was overwhelming.”
― Kevyn Aucoin

“Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his mind. It slipped into his lungs, behind his eyes, into his mouth...”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.”
― Egon Schiele