Light Quotes

Anonymous - it is light grief that can take counsel....
There are two kinds of light - - The glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurbe
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
Raymond Holliwell
Saint thomas aquinas - we are like children, who stand in need of...
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
William Safire
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
E. e. cummings
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Sir Francis Bacon
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an 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
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
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results It is foolish even to desire it.
Euripides
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Dorothy Parker, book review
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein
Dana hatch - i find women with well developed flesh very...
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
John Updike
We burn daylight.
William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 4
Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Prove
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
One kernel is felt in a hogshead one drop of water helps to swell the ocean a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.
Hannah More
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Kelle
We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
David Weatherford
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
G. K. Chesterton
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together...
Carl Zwanzig
By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light.
Sir Issac Newton, On how he made discoveries
The Lord is my light, and my salvation whom shall I fea.
Psalm 27
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas, Collected poems (1952)
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
Samuel Johnson
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
Titus Livius
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller, "The World at Her Fingertips" by Joan Dash
Do not judge men by mere appearances for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
E. H. Chapin
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Bill Cosby
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
Edwin P. Whipple
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitze
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.
Carl Jung
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