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«Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.»
Author: Anne Lamott
| About:
Hope
| Keywords:
begins, dark, dawn, dawned, Do the Right Thing, give it a try, give up, In The Dark, Right Thing, right to work, show, show up, stubborn, The Dark, wait, watch
«To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Joy,
Love,
Risk
| Keywords:
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«Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.»
Author: George Iles
| About:
Hope
| Keywords:
After Dark, dark, dark a, faith, hand, hand held, holding, hope, Hope and Faith, In The Dark, The Dark
«It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.»
Author: James Douglas
| About:
Reverie
| Keywords:
dark, dawn, garden, good idea, haunt, possess, presence, reverie, reveries, shy, shyest, suspend, suspended, suspending, suspends, The Haunted, The Haunting, Too Shy
«I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.»
Author: Janeane Garofalo
(Actress, Comedian)
| About:
Funny
| Keywords:
chipped, chipping, chip in, cracked, cracking, crack up, cut, cutting out, cut into, cut through, cut up, dark, dark glasses, Dark Side, Dark Side of the, emptier, empties, empty, emptying, empty of, glass, guess, guessed, half, lip, on it, prefer, preferring, side, The Dark, The Glass, tooth
«Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.»
«I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.»
«Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Adversity,
Life
| Keywords:
dark, Darkest Days, Dark Days, dreariest, dreary, rain
«May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door.»
«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.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Universe
| Keywords:
After Dark, As If, come to light, creatures, dark, dark a, eyes, found, founds, just, just as, know, light, light up, meaning, Our universe, out, should, therefore, The Creatures, the universe, the whole way, universe, universes, Very light, Was, were, whole, wholes, would-be, would
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