Light Quotes

Persian prove - the loveliest of faces are to be seen by...
Christopher columbus - following the light of the sun, we left the old...
Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.
Washington Irving, American writer and poet
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together...
Carl Zwanzig
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point".
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
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau
Carl sagan - personally, i would be delighted if there were a...
A light heart lives long.
Irish Prove
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James Albert Michene
It is light grief that can take counsel.
Anonymous
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy.
Mahatma Gandhi
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.
Plato
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
Coventry Patmore
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Maya Angelou
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
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Mahatma Gandhi
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry, Flight of White Crows
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self - Righteousness - - Each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - - Each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.
Herbert Butterfield
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
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
E. e. cummings
What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.
Vincent McNa
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.
Saint Augustine
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
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
You have delighted us long enough.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.
Mohammed Daud Khan
The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ... and yet no endless sorrow.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.
William Ellery Channing
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Desiderius Erasmus
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.
George Bernard Shaw
He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
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
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
Bertrand Russell
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
Demosthenes, First Olynthiac
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
Carl Jung