Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
Interpretation
Understanding hardship helps us value the good times in life.
This quote suggests that experiencing difficult or dark times can enhance our appreciation for the positive moments in life. By knowing the struggles and challenges, we gain a deeper understanding and gratitude for joy and light, making the positive experiences more profound and meaningful.
In practice
In a motivational speech discussing resilience and the journey of personal growth.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away.
i never learned anything while i was talking.
I'm just suggesting that when you're faced with fear and anxiety, don't medicate. Meditate instead.
I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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