Gems of Wisdom

"Stars can't shine without darkness."

"There are billions of people. Don't get upset by any one of them."

These are sentences on two different T-shirts I saw this afternoon when shopping with my mom-in-law and niece at Giordano in Carrefour.

Just now, I surfed the Net and found the first was a sentence in the book Fragile Truths by D. H. Sidebottom. When I saw the sentence, I was immediately attracted to it, not because of personal experience, but because of the powerful image.

The second one is not a quote from a book or a speech, but it holds the magic of cheering people up. I gave it to a student who vented her anger on FB tonight, in the hope that it could calm her down.