Light Quotes
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
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.Benjamin Franklin
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.Demosthenes, First Olynthiac
There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.Edith Wharton
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.George Bernard Shaw
Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.Alexander Pope
What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.Prophet Mohammad
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.George Eliot
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Dylan Thomas
All sanity depends on this: that it 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
In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.Benjamin Franklin
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.Erich Segal
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.Max Planck
This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish".
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....Carl Zwanzig
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.Hubert H. Humphrey
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
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - That is why they invented hell.Bertrand Russell
Education is the movement from darkness to light.Allan Bloom
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992
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
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.George Santayana
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
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.Maya Angelou
But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.William Shakespeare
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
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - A scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - Is essentially poetry.Jesse Louis Jackson
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.Helen Steiner Rice
Life is like an ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.Sharon Salzberg
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.Henry Ward Beeche
Energy is eternal delight.William Blake
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.Buddha
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.Sir John Denham
I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.Martin Luthe