Light Quotes

Taylor benson - it is during our darkest moments that we must...
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Jessamyn West
You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.
Vicomte de Chateaubriand
Hazrat inayat khan - the words that enlighten the soul are more...
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
Jane goodall - roots creep under the ground to make a firm...
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
What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.
Vincent McNa
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
War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.
Erasmus
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Mark Twain
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
Carl Zwanzig
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
Ingrid Bergman
The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.
Lao Tzu
Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.
C. V. R. Thompson
Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.
William Hiram Foulkes
To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.
Napoleon I
What is to give light must endure burning.
Dr. Viktor E Frankl
This world we live in is but thickened light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Prove
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
M Scott Peck
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.
Thomas Paine
There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry, Flight of White Crows
You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.
E. L. Doctorow
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
William Safire
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M. F. K. Fisher, O Magazine, November 2003
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Prove
You have delighted us long enough.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results It is foolish even to desire it.
Euripides
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
Demosthenes, First Olynthiac
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, Discourses
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".
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, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)
We might do well to contain our elation at seeing the light at the end of the tunnel until we are certain it is not some guy on a motorcycle coming straight at us.
Tom Fitzgerald
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy.
Mahatma Gandhi
Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - Of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?
Dick Francis, Twice Shy