Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.

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

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If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining. ― Guy Finley

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The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.

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One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

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Know what sparks the light in you. Then use that light to illuminate the world. — Oprah Winfrey

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Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom. ― Matshona Dhliwayo

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A light here required a shadow there.

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I have a power word that I use-when I qualified for the Olympics in 2008, it was fighter. That way when I'm in the race and I get to those dark moments, I can think of the word and it evokes that emotion for me.

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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

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