Light Quotes

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

George Eliot

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

Earl Nightingale

They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.

Roger Rosenblatt

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferbe

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Karl Kraus

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas, Collected poems (1952)

Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.

Jess Lai

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing.

Epictetus

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Seneca

Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

Henry Kissinge

You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman, scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

Colley Cibbe

Life is like an ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.

Sharon Salzberg

If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is like and ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.

Sharon Salzberg

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beeche

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

William Shakespeare

What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.

Prophet Mohammad

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

G. K. Chesterton

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Dorothy Parker, book review

Energy is eternal delight.

William Blake

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Robert Frost

Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

Jim Samuels

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Paul Claudel

There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton

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

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still - - That up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

Charles Kingsley

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

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

Unknown

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

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

Samuel Johnson