Light Quotes
Far better 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 much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena
Life is like and ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.Sharon Salzberg
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy.Mahatma Gandhi
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.Aaron Bu
If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world.Chinese Prove
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.Old Chinese Prove
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.Julie Burchill
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.Mahatma Gandhi
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
The Joker Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight.Batman
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.Albert Einstein
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Plato
There is no place more delightful than home.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.George Eliot
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
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.Margaret Mead
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.Nathaniel Hawthorne
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.Giovanni Ruffini
Blessed are the cracked For they shall let in the light.Unknown
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health everything unconditional belongs in pathology.Friedrich Nietzsche
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.Desiderius Erasmus
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
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.Henry David Thoreau
Energy is eternal delight.William Blake
We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.Jamie Lee Curtis
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
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light.Edna St. Vincent Millay
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.Leonardo da Vinci
Intelligence is nothing without delight.Paul Claudel
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 slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.Logan Pearsall Smith
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.Titus Livius
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Plato
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.John Masefield
