Gena Showalter Quotes

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

And I saw darkness for weeks. It never dawned on me that I could come out of it, but you heal. Nature heals you, and you do come out of it. All of a sudden I saw a crack of light ... then all of a sudden I saw another crack of light. Then I saw forms in the light. And I recognized that there was no darkness, that in darkness there'll always be light.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.

A beam in darkness: let it grow.

Even places that have been shrouded in darkness for billions of years can be illuminated. Even a stone from the bottom of a river can be used to produce fire. Our present sufferings, no matter how dark, have certainly not continued for billions of years--nor will they linger forever. The sun will definitely rise. In fact, its ascent has already begun.

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

The lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

I don't know what God has planned for me or you or anyone, but I do know that in darkness, you discover an indistinguishable light.

I wanted people to know that I'm human, and I'm only successful because I've learned the hard way. I've been in so many dark places, but I got myself out.

I want to show people no matter what they go through there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

There's a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what's good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

During the night we must wait for the light.

Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest.