Chinese Proverb Quotes

Better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

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

Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

In the midst of darkness, light persists.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far away it seems.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'

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

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.

Sometimes you find your strongest faith in the darkest corners.

Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.

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

Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it.

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals - I remained faithful, hopeful, and open to seeing the best in people, regardless of whether they were showing me their worst. I stayed open to believing that no matter how hard the climb, there is always a way to let in a sliver of light to illuminate the path forward.

Hope is that tiny light that the gods have given us so that we can find our way through our darkest hours. And while we might stub our toes and bruise our knees, if we keep moving forward, even when our progress is slow and painful, we will overcome and be made better by our journey. … No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.