It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.
A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.
Yet however comforting and peaceful beach-combing is, it ends up like the sea, as disturbing as it is reassuring. In dark moments I believe that walking on a beach at low tide is to be looking for death, or at least anticipating it. You will only find the dead, the spilled and the cast-off. Things torn free of their life or their place.
This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
Life is not just one dark moment after another.
It's not that I'm necessarily looking for things that are so dark and emotional. But if I see something where the character goes through enormous change, it's very appealing to play all those levels, and that is probably going to involve some dark moments.
Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.
There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested.
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