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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.

Love, Hate, Cannot

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

Focus, Moments, Darkest

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee

Love, Friendship, Fire

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Creative, Darkness, Whether

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln

Live, True, Him

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To love beauty is to see light.
Victor Hugo

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller

Alone, Friend, Dark

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Beauty, True, Sun

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Tecumseh

Life, Morning, Strength

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha

Life, Good, Wisdom

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Muhammad Ali

Night, Before, Dark

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa

Words, Give, Darkness

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

Life, Men, Real

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller

Faith, Strength, Shall

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer

Gratitude, Deep, Person

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C. S. Lewis

Eyes, Dark, Whole

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
Marianne Williamson

Fear, Powerful, Darkness

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.
Demi Lovato

Positive, End, Hard

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire

Sad, Hurt, Healing

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
Helen Keller

Cannot, Between, Darkness

Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Keller

Love, Knowledge, Vision

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.
Muhammad Ali

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth

Nature, Teacher, Forth

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Darkness, Candle, Curse

Each one prays to God according to his own light.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Prays, According

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William Shakespeare

God, Darkness, Believing

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
Ronald Reagan

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What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Love, Heart, Eyes

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton

Two, Mirror, Ways

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
Dwight L. Moody

Fire, Tell, Attention

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