The darkness of ignorance, blindfold us.
Lailah Gifty Akita.
“Your sacred contribution in the world is the service to humanity.”
“Guide us in the path of peace, O Lord!”
“Work while you have strength.”
“Do all the work you can while you still have strength.”
“Do all the work you can, while there is grace of strength.”
“Thank God for the strength to work.”
“She put her tongue out and felt the raw edges of the torn silk. She looped her tongue around them and drew them into her teeth. Just a little bit, she thought, that's all I need to free my eyelids....”
“Something about this made Reynie uneasy. Had he done so badly? Was this meant to test his courage? He did as he was told, closing his eyes and bracing himself as best he could."Why are you flinchin...”
“How can you fall in love at first sight when you can't even see?”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
“Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce that it is not genteel comedy even that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundes...”
“Let us love. Let our lives be a perpetual song of love for God, first of all, and for all human beings who suffer, love, and mourn. Let deep joy live in us. Let us be like the lark, enemy of the ni...”
“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”
“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”
“You can be used by someone for their aims when you are not aware of your true being”