Light Quotes
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04
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
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.Amos Tversky
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.Voltaire
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....Carl Zwanzig
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.Dorothy Parker, book review
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.Iris Murdoch
Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.Jane Porte
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.Kahlil Gibran
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.Joseph Addison
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.Dbjanski
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.Saint Thomas Aquinas
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.Raymond Holliwell
Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.Maurice Druon
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to 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
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
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.Spanish Prove
We burn daylight.William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 4
It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.Oscar Wilde
The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self - Defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - - which is to demean oneself.Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.Charles Simmons
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
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a 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
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
lovers alone wear sunlight.E. e. cummings
This world we live in is but thickened light.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.Nathaniel Hawthorne
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.Taylor Benson
Lighter is the wound foreseen.Cato the Elde
You have delighted us long enough.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.Mahatma Gandhi
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.Ed Koch
Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.The London Times
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.Ralph Waldo Emerson
