“At bottom, the world is to be interpreted in terms of joy, but of a joy that includes all the pain, includes it and transforms it and transcends it.
The Light of the World is a light that is saturated with the darkness which it has overcome and transfigured.”

“There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.”

“Can there be joy and laughter When always the world is ablaze? Enshrouded in darkness Should you not seek a light?”

“There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.”

“The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.”

“The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.”

“Darkness may cover light, but that is not the same thing as putting it out. Whereas, to overcome darkness, all light need do is to exist.”

“Grosser light vanishes into eternal rays
Of all-pervading Cosmic Joy.
From Joy we come,
For Joy we live,
In the sacred Joy we melt.”

“How we treat our fellow creatures is only one more way in which each one of us, every day, writes our own epitaph—bearing into the world a message of light and life or just more darkness and death, adding to the world's joy or to its despair.”

“Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.”