For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
Interpretation
Darkness can bring a sense of renewal and understanding that light often cannot provide.
This quote suggests that dark, difficult, or challenging experiences can lead to personal growth and healing that are not achievable in times of comfort and brightness. It implies that there are aspects of life, such as introspection and resilience, that require the contrast of darkness to allow for true restoration and understanding.
In practice
Using this quote in a discussion about mental health recovery.
Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of the enterprise, but because one is not capable of assessing himself, let alone his work. However, if I were to summarize, my main interest is the nature of time. That's what interests me most of all. What time can do to a man.
One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience.
On the whole, infinity is a fairly palpable aspect of this business of publishing, if only because it extends a dead author's existence beyond the limits he envisioned, or provides a living author with a future he cannot measure. In other words, this business deals with the future which we all prefer to regard as unending.
The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a product of times when things appeared manageable. The same goes for the criticism of those doctrines, though as a voice from the past, this criticism proved prophetic.
Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those - in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed.
To put it in plain language, Russia is that country where the name of a writer appears not on the cover of his book, but on the door of his prison cell.
There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not yin and yang that do this, it is your heart that makes it so.
If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.
For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.
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