Live the present, remember the past, and fear not the future-Saphira in Eldest - Christopher Paolini

For he who has the audacity to determine who should live and who should die no longer serves the law but dictates the law.

The oldest fears were the most powerful. If there were gods, he thought for sure that the first and greatest — and evilest — would be the god of darkness. Light required effort. Light was a struggle. But the dark was easy, and it had existed before all else and would be there to envelop the universe in its smothering cloak when the last dim stars guttered out at the end of time.

Learn to see what you are looking at.