Light Quotes
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.Benjamin Johnson
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.Taylor Benson
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.Ovid
All sanity depends on this that is should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.Doris Lessing
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.Carl Jung
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....Carl Zwanzig
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self - Righteousness - - Each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - - Each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.Herbert Butterfield
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.Immanuel Kant
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.Ed Koch
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.Lyndon Johnson
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it.Jesse Lai
You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.Dag Hammarskjld
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.Karl Kraus
He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, Is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.Siddha Nagarjuna
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
The truth, as the light, makes blind.Albert Camus
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.Desiderius Erasmus
Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.Jim Samuels
We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.John Claypool
Energy is eternal delight.William Blake
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.Mark Twain
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.John Constable
Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.Jane Goodall
Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.Jordan, Robert
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.Bertrand Russell
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992
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
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
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.Freya Stark
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.Charles Robert Darwin
During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.Fritjof Capra, physicist
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.Edmund Spense
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.Firmianus Lactantius
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within.Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
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
