A Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
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Moon appears to shine and light the sky with the help of some fireflies, wonder how they have the power to shine?
The past is beautiful / like the darkness between the fireflies.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
In order for the light of gratitude and happiness to shine so brightly, the darkness of how it could be worse must be present.
For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.
People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.
We can't fight darkness with darkness. We have to find compassion, and embrace the darkness inside of us in order to understand it and, ultimately, to transcend it.
Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of dinosaurs.
To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
I sometimes like to sit in the silence and darkness and listen to my heart shine.
I don't feel like I've done anything extraordinary but take my little light and shine it in darkness.
Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This is like trying to eject the darkness from a room without opening the shutters and letting in the light. As John Newton said, 'I cannot sweep the darkness out, but I can shine it out.'
There's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness.
Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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.
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