Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness

Chinese proverb

most likely a Chinese proverb, a wise piece of advice that reminds us that an active solution to a problem is always preferable to complaining, actually anything is better than complaining, and that sometimes a small answer is all that is required to solve a large problem, metaphorically speaking Darkness represents ignorance or evil whereas Light represents salvation, on a side note this proverb influenced Amnesty International so much that they still use a candle circled by barbed wire as their emblem
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