Light Quotes
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante
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
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.Maya Angelou
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off?Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991
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
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 poetry.Bertrand Russell
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)
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
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.Plato
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.Mother Theresa
There is no place more delightful than home.Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
That grief is light which can take counsel.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.Robert Hutchins
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy.Saint Francis of Assisi
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.Home
Education is the movement from darkness to light.Allan Bloom
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
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
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.Douglas Adams
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
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.Sir Francis Bacon
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.Christopher Columbus
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.Maurice Chevalie
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.George Goethals
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
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together...Carl Zwanzig
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
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.Desiderius Erasmus
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.Giovanni Ruffini
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
You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.Vicomte de Chateaubriand
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.A. Bronson Alcott
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman, scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.Colley Cibbe
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
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
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
