„It’s not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There’s a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.“

— Haruki Murakami

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„The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.“
— Brené Brown
„The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.“
— Paulo Coelho
„Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)“
— William Shakespeare