Light Quotes
The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.George Gordon Byron
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.Bertrand Russell
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.Georges Bernanos
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to 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
Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.Jane Porte
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.Albert Camus
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
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.Carl Jung, "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", 1962
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.Nathaniel Hawthorne
When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity, which delights you and makes you giddy.Ferdinand Hodle
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.Eugene Ionesco
People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.Ovid
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.Michael J. Gel
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 wil happen... There will be something solid for us to stand on.. ..... or we will be taught to fly.Patrick Overton
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.Kahlil Gibran
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.George Carlin
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.Aaron Bu
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
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ... and yet no endless sorrow.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - Of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?Dick Francis, Twice Shy
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.Henry David Thoreau
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.Carl Zwanzig
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be.Benjamin Johnson
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.Desiderius Erasmus
Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.Julie Burchill
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.Oscar Wilde
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
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.Ralph Waldo Emerson
