Light Quotes

Charles robert darwin - i have called this principle, by which each...
Seneca - a good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty...
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, Is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.
Siddha Nagarjuna
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
A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.
Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light
But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.
John Milton
Isaac asimov - jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do...
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
Titus Livius
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.
Cicero
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
Nora Roberts
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao Tzu
Lighter is the wound foreseen.
Cato the Elde
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Kelle
The Lord is my light and my salvation - So why should I be afraid.
Bible, Psalm 27: 1 NLT
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results It is foolish even to desire it.
Euripides
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
William Butler Yeats
One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God? s existence.
Steve Aylett, Atom (a novel, 2000)
We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.
John Claypool
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
Marquis de Sade
Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule.
L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Eugene Ionesco
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
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Prove
We burn daylight.
William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 4
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Edmund Spense
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna Ferbe
It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.
Richard J. Ferris, president, United Airlines
Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.
Horace
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
Donald Culross Peattie
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
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Charles Simmons
Energy is eternal delight.
William Blake
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
J. Krishnamurti
Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, January 2004