Only love can turn the darkest storm into the brightest day.

“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet

“None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair,
But love can hope where reason would despair.”

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (1709–1773) British politician

Epigram; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The face of danger is brightest when turned so its features cannot be seen.”

Fredric Brown (1906–1972) American novelist, short story author

Etaoin Shrdlu (p. 33)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)

“That's when you can build a bridge of light.
That's what turns the wrong so right.
That's when you can't give up the fight.That's when love turns nighttime into day.
That's when loneliness goes away.
That's when you gotta be strong tonight.
Only love can build us a bridge of light.”

Pink (singer) (1979) American singer-songwriter

Bridge of Light, written by Pink and Billy Mann, from the soundtrack to Happy Feet Two (2011)
Song lyrics

“A soul can love only another soul. It cannot be turned inward and then expect to love itself.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning,
Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing,
I tread day and night such roads.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

“This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries over the waste at once the dirge of departing winter, and the prophecy of coming spring.”

Charlotte Brontë book Shirley

Source: Shirley (1849), Ch. 20: To-Morrow

“Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.”

Jennifer Beals (1963) American actress and a former teen model

Acceptance speech for The Center Orange County's "Torch Bearer" Award, Santa Ana, California (5 June 2010) http://jennifer-beals.com/media/speeches/oc_gala.html.

“The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.”

Orhan Pamuk book The Museum of Innocence

Source: The Museum of Innocence

“The distance often makes it clear how true a love is. Those who love deeply never fear a storm, they only fear that love will go out.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La distanza spesso fa capire quanto sia vero un amore. Chi ama profondamente non teme mai una tempesta, teme solo che l'amore si spenga.
Source: prevale.net

“Only love can turn the darkest storm into the brightest day.”

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