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“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

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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#2

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver

tags: box, darkness, gift, love

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#4

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: concealment, dark-plans, darkness, stealth

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#5

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
― Anne Frank

tags: candle, darkness, illumination, misattributed

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#6

“It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills,
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: darkness, gollum, hobbit, riddle

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#7

“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

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#8

“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
― Rumi

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#9

“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

tags: change-the-world, stories, story, sunrise, world

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#10

“If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

tags: appreciation, earth, god, lord, religion, sunrise, world

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#11

“What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: sunrise

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#12

“It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.”
― Jean Genet, The Balcony

tags: sunrise

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#13

“For a girl with such a dark mind, you're a little too in love with the sunrise.”
― Sherry Namdeo

tags: dark-mind, grunge, sun, sunrise

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#14

“There is a reason why morning follows night, hjälte. After times of great darkness, we must take time to mourn all we have lost and all who were lost, even as hope rises with the sun.”
― Emory R. Frie, Realm of the Snow Queen

tags: darkness, healing, here-comes-the-sun, hope, morning, mourning, rise, snow-queen, sunrise, take-time

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#15

“Listen to the wind blow, watch the sun rise.”
― Fleetwood Mac

tags: sun, sunrise, wind

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#16

“Every sunrise gives us the opportunity to begin again with the morning lights of love, with the power of persistence and with the magic of gratitude.”
― Debasish Mridha

tags: morning-lights, new-years, new-years-resolutions, opportunity, persistence, power, sunrise

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#17

“No matter how dark the night, sunrises after the dawn of new day.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

tags: dawn, inspiring, night, sunrise

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#18

“In your darkest hour, give thanks, for in due time, the morning will come.
And it will come with a ray of sunshine.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

tags: be-thankful, darkest-hour, give-thanks, mornings, new-day, refreshing, sunrise, sunshine, thankful, thanksgiving

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#19

“When the sun goes down, the moon becomes the king of the sky.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

tags: corrupt-leaders, food-for-thought, impeachment, kings, political-power, power-struggle, reign, rulers, sunrise, sunsets

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#20

“Time is a long sunrise where we wait for our haloes.”
― Kelli Russell Agodon, Dialogues with Rising Tides

tags: angels, daily-life, death, halos, morning, mortality, sunrise, sunrises, time, time-passing

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#21

“i am not the rising star.
i am the drowning sun.”
― Pravin Gupta, The Dark Light: Amethyst Heart in the City

tags: beauty-quotes, dust, inspirational, motivational, sunrise, sunset

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#22

“In a silent morning moment, with a silent voice I pray, to lift a silent sunrise offering on silent wings of grace.”
― Mary Davis, Every Day Spirit: A Daybook of Wisdom, Joy and Peace

tags: grace, morning, pray, prayer, prayer-quotes, silence, silence-quotes, sunrise, sunrise-quotes, wings-of-grace

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#23

“Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.”
― Bram Stoker

tags: life, sunrise, tough-times, wisdom

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#24

“A girl in love with sunsets.
A man hell-bent on being her sunrise.”
― Nitya Prakash

tags: hellbent, sunrise, sunsets

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#25

“seduce me at sunrise, dance with me barefoot in the dew on the grass, make me wet and warm, and loved”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography

tags: dew, love, soulmates, sunrise

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#26

“The sun still hadn't risen. Maybe it never would. Maybe the sky was sick of these endless costume changes: Casting off cloak after cloak, but never revealing what it wore under all those cloaks.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

tags: cloaks, costume-changes, sunrise

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#27

“Far beyond the trees, the sun peeked its carroty face over the dark blue water, sweeping away the silvery darkness.”
― Kien Nguyen, The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood

tags: scene-setting, sunrise

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#28

“Sunrise is the start of something beautiful: the day.
Sunset is the start of something beautiful: the night.”
― Juansen Dizon, Confessions of a Wallflower

tags: beautiful, beauty, beauty-quotes, day, juansen-dizon, night, sunrise, sunrise-quotes, sunset, sunset-quotes

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#29

“Your choice between sunrise or sunset
depends on your attitude.”
― Ibn Jeem

tags: attitude, choice, ibn-jeem, quotes, sunrise, sunset

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#30

“And as he spoke, like the flush creeping along the underside of a cloud at sunrise, the colour came back to her white face and get eyes grew bright and she sat up and said, 'Why, I do declare I feel that better. I think I could take a little breakfast this morning.”
― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

tags: aslan, cloud, colour, healing, health, sunrise

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#31

“Then the stars went out, for the bark of Ra, in fiery splendor, burst out of the East. Sunshine flooded the wide desert and the long, green valley of the Nile. The night was over; a new day had dawned for the land of Egypt.”
― Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Mara, Daughter of the Nile

tags: dawn, egypt, sunrise

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