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BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS BECOMES US NOW

by Pan. Light.

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”

― Mary Oliver

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”

― Helen Keller

“Even lost in the darkness, my heart will find you.”

― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

― Edgar Allan Poe

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret,

between the shadow and the soul.”

― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”

― Leonardo da Vinci

“It is our light not our darkness that frightens us.”

― Marianne Williamson

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PHOTO CREDITS:

Photo: by Pan. Light.
Photo: by Stuart Anthony. Fourth Man.
Photo: by Nancy Nance. Inspiration Point.
Photo: by Simon Hadleigh-Sparks. Syon Park Gardens London Enchanted Woodlands.
Photo: by Alistair Nicol. Take Me Home.
Photo: by Matthew Savage. Winterburn Reservoir, Milky Way.
Photo: by photophilde. Bridge in The Dark.
Photo: by Reji. Dark Pier.
Photo: by Zach Dischner. Sunset on the Gorge.
Photo: by John Fowler. Ruby Beach.