Light Quotes
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.Logan Pearsall Smith
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.Woodrow Wilson
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh! leave the light of Hope behind.Thomas Campbell
My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self - Righteousness - - Each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - - Each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.Herbert Butterfield
Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...Old School
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.Woodrow Wilson
lovers alone wear sunlight.E. e. cummings
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value.Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis".
More light! Give me more light!Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an 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
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.Charles Simmons
War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.Erasmus
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace where there is hatred, let me sow love where there is injury, pardon where there is doubt, faith where there is despair, hope where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joy.Unknown
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
Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.Washington Irving, American writer and poet
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point".
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.Earl Nightingale
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
All sanity depends on this that is should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.Doris Lessing
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.Richard Milhous Nixon
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.Carl Sagan
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.Albert Einstein
In saffron - Colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.Home
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
The Lord is my light and my salvation - So why should I be afraid.Bible, Psalm 27: 1 NLT
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.Oscar Wilde
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04
Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.John Fletcher, 1647
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.Carl Sandburg
What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.M. C. Escher, Quoted in Comic Sections, D. MacHale (Dublin 1993)
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjold
To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.Sir Walter Scott
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.Ovid
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.Carl Jung
