Don’t be so hard on yourself

Don’t be so hard on yourself
this will lead to difficult times.
Learn to forgive yourself and
forgive those who gave you hard times.
Learn to see the bright side of the darkness.
Learn to accept the darkness in the light.
It will make you stronger and it will show you
patience. Patience will lead you to your dreams.

i've waited long enough

i've waited long enough to feel sparkly again, 

i don't want to be dragged back into darkness

Fire burns brighter in the darkness.

— Marianne Williamson

“Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.”

darkness

— Unknown

“Sometimes you can’t explain what you see in a person. It’s just the way they take you to a place where no one else can.”

loving you isn't easy

Marianne Williamson

“Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.”

— bluebird (pg. 190), Ariel Gore

“Happiness is a kind of openness, we have learned. So choose the risky road of power and vulnerability. Be done with dull things. Take your life back. Free yourself from habits of anger and compliance—smoking self-destruction. Eyes wide open to the world as it is, we grieve. And in the midst of it all, we rejoice…We have been told that liberty and happiness are mutually exclusive. This notion we reject. We can write our own scripts, write our own stories. We can follow the threads of joy, too, like sparks flying from the campfire, see where they land. We can create a liberation psychology. So we open to love or work or art that feels expansive. There is no “happily ever after.” There is only meditation, action, change, friendship, idea, inspiration, creation. We spin this light out of darkness.”

and in the darkness bind them

One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them

— Carl Jung

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.”

I do not believe this darkness will endure.

even through the darkness

even your shadow leaves

Don't depend too much on anyone in this world... 

Because even your shadow leaves you when you're in darkness.

The Uses of Sorrow

we find others in that darkness

Sometimes we find others in that darkness, 

and sometimes we lose them there.

The Uses of Sorrow

-Anonymous-

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!