Robin McKinley Quotes

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear.

Beware of organizations that proclaim their devotion to the light without embracing, bowing to the dark; for when they idealize half the world they must devalue the rest.

Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.

Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.

The light and the dark are the same. They share. They really do rub up against each other, and they are extraordinarily familiar with each other. They are actually friends.

Dark can't exist with the light. Ain't nothing dark about God.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb unless the lamb is inside the lion.

This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that's what I mean by 'Hallelujah.'

Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side... we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.

Time moves along at its own pace for as long as we are on this planet, and then some. So why try to beat it anymore? Maybe it's better to meet time head on and chill ourselves out so we can exist in harmony with the passing days.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

A light here required a shadow there.

The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.