Light Quotes

The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.
Kahlil Gibran
Lucius annaeus seneca - he who has great power should use it lightly....
If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
Ovid
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
Cato the Elde
Vincent mcna - what great delight it is to see the ones we love...
lovers alone wear sunlight.
E. e. cummings
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
Unknown
Home - there is nothing nobler or more admirable than...
When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
E. e. cummings
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
It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.
Richard J. Ferris, president, United Airlines
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)
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
James Arthur Baldwin
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that - Thank Heaven - Nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
J. B. Priestley
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Taylor Benson
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Kelle
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together...
Carl Zwanzig
The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.
Lao Tzu
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller, "The World at Her Fingertips" by Joan Dash
Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
Oscar Wilde
You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Samuel Johnson
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.
Plato
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
Seneca
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
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Thomas Fulle
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
Oscar Wilde
Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.
The London Times
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.
Charles A. Lindbergh
Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.
Anonymous
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
Iris Murdoch
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Put out the light.
Theodore Roosevelt, last words, 6 January 1919
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
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light.
Maurice Freehill
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
Seneca