Clinging Quote by Junichiro Tanizaki

The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark.

— Henri Nouwen

When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant.

— Henri Nouwen

“For it is through the darkness of the evening that we are able to see the stars. Without this darkness, we would never get…

— Jennifer Sodini

“WHEN WE ARE OPEN AND GIVING OF OUR LIGHT, WE CREATE AN ENDLESS REFLECTION THAT OUTLIVES OUR HUMAN EXISTENCE.”

— Gary Friedman

This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows, and when left to ourselves, we all…

— Anonymous

What we are shines more brightly than anything we say or do. If we are to fill the world with light, we must first…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

“Our disenchantment of the night through artificial lighting may appear, if it is noticed at all, as a regrettable but eventually trivial side effect…

— Robert Macfarlane

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

— Anonymous

“We can, each of us, be likened to houses made entirely of colorfully stained-glass. They sparkle and shine when the sun is on them,…

— Raymond D. Longoria Jr

“The combination of our mortality with our groundlessness imparts to human life its pressing and enigmatic character. We struggle to in our brief time…

— Roberto Mangabeira Unger

“Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness, of which, if we seek them, there are ever some,…

— Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave,…

— Charles Dickens