Light Quotes

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule.

L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.

I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.

Charles A. Lindbergh

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

Albert Einstein

Once in a while you get shown the light in the stangest of places if you look at it right.

Jerry Garcia, Scarlet Bergonias

We might do well to contain our elation at seeing the light at the end of the tunnel until we are certain it is not some guy on a motorcycle coming straight at us.

Tom Fitzgerald

Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.

Helen Steiner Rice

Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - Of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance.

Graham Clarke

Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

John Owen

When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity, which delights you and makes you giddy.

Ferdinand Hodle

He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

There are two kinds of light - - The glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.

James Thurbe

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

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

Madam Guizot

By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light.

Sir Issac Newton, On how he made discoveries

But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

William Shakespeare

A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight, And walks with you in the shadows.

Unknown

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

Sharon Salzberg

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

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

Carl Zwanzig

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

E. e. cummings

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

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Rita Rudne

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

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

Blessed are the cracked For they shall let in the light.

Unknown

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

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

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

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

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fulle

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

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God? s existence.

Steve Aylett, Atom (a novel, 2000)

Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.

The London Times

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

Erasmus