I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full. Arthur Ashe
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. Helen keller
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing. Mmuhammad ali
And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.Max Muller
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. Annie Dillard
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. Bryant H.McGill
Dark books do appeal to kids because they have nice, sheltered lives - and they also appeal to children who are going through pretty hard times themselves. Melissa de la Cruz
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. Christian Nestell Bovee
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark. Empedocles
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. P. G. Wodehouse
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.Martin Luther King
I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do. Margaret Atwood
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world. Helen keller
I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer. Justin Cronin
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.Rabindranath Tagore