Light Quotes
Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.Oscar Wilde
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.John Berry, Flight of White Crows
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
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.Isaac Asimov
Once in a while you get shown the light in the stangest of places if you look at it right.Jerry Garcia, Scarlet Bergonias
Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.George Carlin
Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.G. K. Chesterton
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.Charles Robert Darwin
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.Rabindranath Tagore
One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God? s existence.Steve Aylett, Atom (a novel, 2000)
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 Where there is sadness, joy.Saint Francis of Assisi
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light
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
There are two kinds of light - - The glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.James Thurbe
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.Pythagorus
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.George Santayana
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious - Minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious - Minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.Johann von Goethe
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
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
Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.George Eliot
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?Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?Epictetus, Discourses
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.Persian Prove
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.Marquis de Sade
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.Robert Frost
Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.Baltasar Gracian
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
