Henry David Thoreau Quotes

In all circumstances, I always look for the light and build around it, with little memory of pain.

When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.

Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.

I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

There is and must be a remedy for all Evils.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

My broken brilliance will shine a light in the darkness.

There's a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what's good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.

I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that's left. I'm lucky I found one little glimmer stored away.

And I saw darkness for weeks. It never dawned on me that I could come out of it, but you heal. Nature heals you, and you do come out of it. All of a sudden I saw a crack of light ... then all of a sudden I saw another crack of light. Then I saw forms in the light. And I recognized that there was no darkness, that in darkness there'll always be light.

I can't get caught up in darkness. I just don't. I always want to gravitate towards light. I love picking yourself up or surviving or being grateful for the good stuff and not getting lost in the tough stuff. The discipline is so natural for me.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

In your darkest times there's always room for a little light.

When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the darkness?" It's gone!

The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't. The light that shines into darkness and never goes out calls them on into life. It calls them back again into the great room. It calls them into their bodies and into the world, into whatever the world will require. It calls them into work and pleasure, goodness and beauty, and the company of other loved ones.

You can't discover light, by analyzing the dark.

Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.

There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.

Just keep going - no feeling is final.

My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals - I remained faithful, hopeful, and open to seeing the best in people, regardless of whether they were showing me their worst. I stayed open to believing that no matter how hard the climb, there is always a way to let in a sliver of light to illuminate the path forward.

Hope is that tiny light that the gods have given us so that we can find our way through our darkest hours. And while we might stub our toes and bruise our knees, if we keep moving forward, even when our progress is slow and painful, we will overcome and be made better by our journey. … No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.