Light Quotes

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace where there is hatred, let me sow love where there is injury, pardon where there is doubt, faith where there is despair, hope where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joy.
Unknown
Diane frolov and andrew schneider, northern exposure, all is vanity, 1991 - a man should not leave this earth with unfinished...
Desiderius erasmus - the pleasures which we most rarely experience...
This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.
Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish".
The beauty of daylight - Saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.
Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
Freya Stark
Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
George Carlin
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Maurice Chevalie
You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.
Vicomte de Chateaubriand
Edna st. vincent millay,
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help 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
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
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
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.
W. B. Yeats
Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.
Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
George Orwell
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Erich Segal
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Aaron Rose
Life is like an ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.
Sharon Salzberg
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!
Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
Blessed are the cracked For they shall let in the light.
Unknown
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.
Thomas De Quincey
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.
John Owen
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
Jeanne - Marie Roland
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
Donald Culross Peattie
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Theresa
We might do well to contain our elation at seeing the light at the end of the tunnel until we are certain it is not some guy on a motorcycle coming straight at us.
Tom Fitzgerald
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.
Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
Carl Sandburg
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman, scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
Colley Cibbe
He who would travel happily must travel light.
Antoine de Saint - Exupery
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
Georges Bataille
Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon