Light Quotes

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

Giovanni Ruffini

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

Titus Livius

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

James Albert Michene

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one anothe.

Theodore Hesburgh

Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.

John Gay

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, January 2004

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off.

Andrew Schneide

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

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.

C. C. Colton

Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - Of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance.

Graham Clarke

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Margaret Mead

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

Baltasar Gracian

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

Jennie Jerome Churchill

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

Horace

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

M Scott Peck

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

George Santayana

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.

Frank Outlaw

Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.

Jane Goodall

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M. F. K. Fisher, O Magazine, November 2003

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

J. B. Priestley

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

The beauty of daylight - Saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.

Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005

All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You - - You alone have the stars as no one else has them.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman, scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

Colley Cibbe

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.

William Ellery Channing

Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.

Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Alexander Pope

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.

Visions of Gregorian Chants

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together...

Carl Zwanzig

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

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