Light Quotes
Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.Immanuel Kant
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.Thomas Campbell
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals... must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.Isaac Watts
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.Dame Edith Sitwell
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.Adlai Stevenson
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - - Such is a pleasure beyond compare.Kenko Yoshida
Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...Old School
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.E. H. Chapin
One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.Woodrow Wilson
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.Bertrand Russell
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.George Orwell
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.Thomas Paine
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.Ghandi, 1931
People are like stained - Glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beuty is revealed only if there is a light from within.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.N. P. Willis
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
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.Richard Milhous Nixon
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value.Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis".
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
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
I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self - Defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - - which is to demean oneself.Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.John Milton
That grief is light which can take counsel.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.Mark Twain
We don? t see the end of the tunnel but I must say I don? t think it is darker than it was a year ago, and in some ways lighter.John F. Kennedy, speech in 1962
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
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.Raymond Holliwell
Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.Anonymous, Greensleeves
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.Samuel Johnson
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.George Bernard Shaw
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it.Jesse Lai
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.Henry Ward Beeche
The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.Jean Baptiste Lacoraire
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.Lao Tzu
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
