Light Quotes

Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

Michael J. Gel

Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

John Owen

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

Isaac Newton

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

John Milton

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight, And walks with you in the shadows.

Unknown

The Joker Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight.

Batman

I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.

Mohammed Daud Khan

The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

Lao Tzu

Once in a while you get shown the light in the stangest of places if you look at it right.

Jerry Garcia, Scarlet Bergonias

Daylight follows a dark night.

Maasai Prove

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Ovid

Do not judge men by mere appearances for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

E. H. Chapin

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep - Burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beeche

Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point".

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

Michel de Montaigne

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Oscar Wilde

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

John Updike

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.

Sri Madhava

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

Thomas A. Edison

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Jessamyn West

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Ghandi, 1931

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - That is why they invented hell.

Bertrand Russell

Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - Of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?

Dick Francis, Twice Shy

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

Logan Pearsall Smith

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Gen. Peyton C. March

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within.

Elisabeth Kubler - Ross

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry, Flight of White Crows

Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.

Washington Irving, American writer and poet

There are two kinds of light - - The glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

James Thurbe

The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ... and yet no endless sorrow.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.

Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980