Being and non-being are born of each other,
Difficulty and ease form one another,
Long and short mutually define,
High and Low to each other incline,
Tone and voice as one align,
Front and back each other bind.

-Lao Tzu, translated by Patrick Byrne

"There are only two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

- Edith Wharton