Light Quotes
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
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
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.Chinese Prove
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.William Safire
Education is the movement from darkness to light.Allan Bloom
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.Eugene Ionesco
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color - Blind.Albert Schweitze
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.Edna Ferbe
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
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.Logan Pearsall Smith
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
Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.Marrion Zimmer Bradley
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.E. e. cummings
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.Hartley Coleridge
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.Edmund Spense
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together...Carl Zwanzig
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.Carl Jung
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.Rabindranath Tagore
Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs
Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.Oscar Wilde
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight.Henry Watton
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.Henry Fielding
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - A scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - Is essentially poetry.Jesse Louis Jackson
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
Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it - - To that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.George Jean Nathan
Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.James Albert Michene
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.Saint Augustine
Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.Alastair Reid
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.Robertson Davies
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.Pythagorus
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.Dame Edith Sitwell
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.Charles Robert Darwin
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.Woodrow Wilson
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.Thomas Campbell
