Light Quotes

Put out the light.

Theodore Roosevelt, last words, 6 January 1919

Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

George Carlin

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.

William Ellery Channing

The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.

Desiderius Erasmus

The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Persian Prove

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

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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 light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Henry David Thoreau

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

M Scott Peck

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Paul Claudel

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Woodrow Wilson

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

Martin Luthe

Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.

Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

George Santayana

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one anothe.

Theodore Hesburgh

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Prove

We burn daylight.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 4

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

William Safire

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health everything unconditional belongs in pathology.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You - - You alone have the stars as no one else has them.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.

Sri Madhava

Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Prove

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

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Iris Murdoch

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

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together...

Carl Zwanzig

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

Unknown

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

English Prove

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

After enlightenment, the laundry.

Josh Billings

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Prove

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

Earl Nightingale