Light Quotes
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
You conquer every hardness with your eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time.Michelangelo, Poem Fragment
It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.Oscar Wilde
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.Leonardo da Vinci
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.Isaac Newton
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
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.N. P. Willis
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
May you never know hunger May you love with a full heart The light burn in your eyes May the fire be your friend And the sea rock you gently May the moon light your way Till the wind sets you free.Shriekback, "Cradle Song".
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
You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.Vicomte de Chateaubriand
I never saw an ugly thing in my life for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.John Constable
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.Hartley Coleridge
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
The beauty of daylight - Saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005
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
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.Carl Gustav Jung
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.Thomas A. Edison
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.Napoleon I
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.Voltaire
The truth, as the light, makes blind.Albert Camus
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.Bernard Meltze
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
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.Carl Zwanzig
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
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
Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color - Blind.Albert Schweitze
The fight is won or lost far away from witnessesbehind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.Muhammad Ali
