Light Quotes
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.M Scott Peck
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.Roosevelt, Eleano
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.Henry Louis Mencken
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
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.Home
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.Harry Emerson Fosdick
The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.Desiderius Erasmus
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1
Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.Anonymous
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.J. B. Priestley
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.E. e. cummings
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.Dorothy Parker, book review
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.James Albert Michene
Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.John Fletcher, 1647
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
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.Rabindranath Tagore
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
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.Albert Einstein
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
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.Dbjanski
Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.Helen Steiner Rice
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.Jennie Jerome Churchill
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.Spanish Prove
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.A. Bronson Alcott
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.Isaac Asimov
In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.Benjamin Franklin
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
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
The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self - Defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - - which is to demean oneself.Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.Karl Kraus
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 H. Humphrey
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.Carl Jung
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.Taylor Benson
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light.Maurice Freehill
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.Cato the Elde
Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.Jane Porte
