Light Quotes
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.George Santayana
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.Carl Sagan
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point".
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.Rabindranath Tagore
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
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.Gen. Peyton C. March
There are two kinds of light - - The glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.James Thurbe
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.Visions of Gregorian Chants
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.Desiderius Erasmus
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.Sir Francis Bacon
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.Demosthenes, First Olynthiac
Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.Horace
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.Samuel Johnson
Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.Jane Goodall
Put out the light.Theodore Roosevelt, last words, 6 January 1919
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
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.Adlai Stevenson
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.Giovanni Ruffini
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
You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.Dag Hammarskjld
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.James Arthur Baldwin
Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.John Fletcher, 1647
The Lord is my light and my salvation - So why should I be afraid.Bible, Psalm 27: 1 NLT
Begin today No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have.Henry C. Blinn
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened.Newt Gingrich
