“A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.”
Source: The Secret Language of Girls
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Frances O'Roark Dowell 1
American writer 1964Related quotes
“Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 90
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
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Variant: When its dark enough you can see the stars.
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
Widely attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson on the internet; however, a presumably definitive source of Emerson's works at http://www.rwe.org fails to confirm any occurrence of this phrase across his works. This phrase is found in remarks attributed to Charles A. Beard in Arthur H. Secord, "Condensed History Lesson", Readers' Digest, February 1941, p. 20; but the origin has not been determined. Possibly confused with a passage in "Illusions" in which Emerson discusses his experience in the "Star Chamber": "our lamps were taken from us by the guide, and extinguished or put aside, and, on looking upwards, I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars glimmering more or less brightly over our heads, and even what seemed a comet flaming among them. All the party were touched with astonishment and pleasure. Our musical friends sung with much feeling a pretty song, “The stars are in the quiet sky,” &c., and I sat down on the rocky floor to enjoy the serene picture. Some crystal specks in the black ceiling high overhead, reflecting the light of a half–hid lamp, yielded this magnificent effect."
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“Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.”
Source: Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior