Light Quotes
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious - Minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious - Minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.Johann von Goethe
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.J. B. Priestley
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 heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.Lao Tzu
Just being happy helps other souls along Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song.Ripley D. Saunders
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.Franois Maurice Mitterrand
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 wil happen... There will be something solid for us to stand on.. ..... or we will be taught to fly.Patrick Overton
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
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
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.Samuel Johnson
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together...Carl Zwanzig
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
There are two kinds of light - - The glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.James Thurbe
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.Albert Schweitze
lovers alone wear sunlight.E. e. cummings
The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.Kahlil Gibran
Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.Oscar Wilde
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 poetry.Bertrand Russell
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.Truman Capote
Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.Anonymous
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
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.Mark Twain
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.Kahlil Gibran
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.Albert Camus
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Plato
In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.Haniel Long
We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.Jamie Lee Curtis
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.Henry George
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.Thomas Jefferson
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.G. K. Chesterton
Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.Michael J. Gel
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.Michel de Montaigne
Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.Horace
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.Cato the Elde
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.Demosthenes, First Olynthiac
