Light Quotes

Maurice druon - number is the word but is not utterance it is...
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
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
Paul Claudel
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
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
George Orwell
Mark twain - of the delights of this world, man cares most for...
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
He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Ed Koch
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino
During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.
Fritjof Capra, physicist
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Erich Segal
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
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
In saffron - Colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.
Home
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
We don? t see the end of the tunnel but I must say I don? t think it is darker than it was a year ago, and in some ways lighter.
John F. Kennedy, speech in 1962
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
Carl Zwanzig
Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.
Alastair Reid
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert Humphrey
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Bill Cosby
There are two ways of passing from this world - One in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back but when one passes in darkness, he returns.
Bhagavad Gita
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious - Minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious - Minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
Johann von Goethe
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
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
Unknown
He who would travel happily must travel light.
Antoine de Saint - Exupery
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - - Such is a pleasure beyond compare.
Kenko Yoshida
Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.
Francis Quarles
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
That grief is light which can take counsel.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
Alexander Pope
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M. F. K. Fisher, O Magazine, November 2003
You have delighted us long enough.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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
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 will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.
Frank Outlaw