Light Quotes
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.Unknown
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
The fight is won or lost far away from witnessesbehind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.Muhammad Ali
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
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
Blessed are the cracked For they shall let in the light.Unknown
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.Desiderius Erasmus
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.Christopher Columbus
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.Margaret Fulle
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
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
Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.George Eliot
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.Rabindranath Tagore
There are two kinds of light - - The glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.James Thurbe
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - A scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - Is essentially poetry.Jesse Louis Jackson
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.Henry Fielding
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.Edwin P. Whipple
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.Nora Roberts
Knowledge is love and light and vision.Helen Kelle
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.A. Bronson Alcott
To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.Napoleon I
Life is like and ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.Sharon Salzberg
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.John Milton
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.Benjamin Franklin
And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away... an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good - Bye.Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD - ROM
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.Ingrid Bergman
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.Iris Murdoch
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
There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.N. P. Willis
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.Roosevelt, Eleano
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.Chinese Prove
You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.Samuel Johnson
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
Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.Oscar Wilde
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.Dbjanski
