As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. — Carl Jung

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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

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I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you. -- Walt Whitman

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Darkness comes in waves...tell me, why invite it to stay?

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If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. ― Soujourner Truth

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What darkness to you is light to me.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ― Martin Luther King Jr.

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We have all been thrown down so low that nobody thought we'd ever get up again; but we have been long enough trodden now; we will come up again, and now I am here. ― Sojourner Truth

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Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.

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You don’t know how strong you are until being strong is the only option you have. – Unknown Author

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