Quotes I like

I've heard/read a couple of things I like the past couple of days. Thought I'd put them here for documentation purposes and to share...

Never fear the shadows, because that always means there must be a light shining somewhere.
— poet Jonathan Santos


... Already she understood that to be aware of happiness when you were actually feeling it, and not just in retrospect, was to be happy indeed.
— from The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir