Light Quotes

People are like stained - Glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beuty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elizabeth Kubler - Ross

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still - - That up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

Charles Kingsley

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

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Desiderius Erasmus

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

Alexander Pope

We might do well to contain our elation at seeing the light at the end of the tunnel until we are certain it is not some guy on a motorcycle coming straight at us.

Tom Fitzgerald

You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.

Vicomte de Chateaubriand

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis".

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

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Sir Francis Bacon

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color - Blind.

Albert Schweitze

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.

Thomas De Quincey

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

Earl Nightingale

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Ovid

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Bernard Meltze

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Edwin P. Whipple

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

Henry Kissinge

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it.

Jesse Lai

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

To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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

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

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton

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

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

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Allan Bloom

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Dame Edith Sitwell

We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell