Light Quotes
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
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.Earl Nightingale
I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.Martin Luthe
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and 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
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health everything unconditional belongs in pathology.Friedrich Nietzsche
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.Buddha
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.Truman Capote
The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.Kahlil Gibran
People are like stained - Glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beuty is revealed only if there is a light from within.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.John Gay
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.Titus Livius
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.Thomas A. Edison
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
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.Nora Roberts
Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.Washington Irving, American writer and poet
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
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.Hubert Humphrey
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.Buddha
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.E. L. Doctorow
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away... an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good - Bye.Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD - ROM
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
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
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
It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.Richard J. Ferris, president, United Airlines
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.Kahlil Gibran
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
Life is like and ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.Sharon Salzberg
Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.William Hiram Foulkes
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.A. Bronson Alcott
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.Charles Dickens
