"You have to go through the darkness to truly know the light. This may sound like a cliche, but it's true nonetheless. Often the greatest doubts occur just before a breakthrough."

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Source : Surya Das, Lama Surya Das (1997). “Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment : Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World”, Broadway

Surya Das

#Light Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.”

Source : Nicholas Murray Butler (1911). “Philosophy”
“...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom.”
“What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion â€¦ whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.”
“Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.”
“It is the saints who know what being in love is all about. Earthly love pales by comparison.”

Source : Thomas Dubay (1989). “Fire Within: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel, on Prayer”, p.25, Ignatius Press
“It's hard to get a movie made about characters these days. We're in a climate where, unless it's based on a toy or it's a superhero where somewhere it ends in man - like Spider-Man, Superman or Iron Man - it's hard to get it made.”
“We are always imagining something, It is practically impossible to be awake without imagining something. Then why not imagine something at all times that will inspire the powers within us to do greater and greater things?”

Source : Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media
“You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.”

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