Light Quotes
There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.Edith Wharton
In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.Haniel Long
If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world.Chinese Prove
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.C. C. Colton
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.Maxwell Planck
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.Margaret Mead
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value.Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis".
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
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.Earl Nightingale
It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.Oscar Wilde
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.Thomas Paine
Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.The London Times
Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.Anonymous
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.Desiderius Erasmus
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790
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
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.Robertson Davies
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
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman, scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.Colley Cibbe
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.George Goethals
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.Spanish Prove
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.Mark Twain
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
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.Carl Zwanzig
This world we live in is but thickened light.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.Robert Hutchins
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.Franois Maurice Mitterrand
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.Mahatma Gandhi
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
