Light Quotes
A light heart lives long.Irish Prove
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.Spanish Prove
We don? t see the end of the tunnel but I must say I don? t think it is darker than it was a year ago, and in some ways lighter.John F. Kennedy, speech in 1962
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.Visions of Gregorian Chants
Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.Anonymous
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight.Henry Watton
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.Edmund Spense
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.William Ellery Channing
During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.Fritjof Capra
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.John Quinton
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive - - Like famine victims.Dana Hatch
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
But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.John Milton
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
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.Logan Pearsall Smith
Danger and delight grow on one stalk.English Prove
Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.Helen Steiner Rice
The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.Desiderius Erasmus
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
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.Isaac Asimov
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
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.Eugene Ionesco
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that - Thank Heaven - Nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.J. B. Priestley
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
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
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.Georges Bernanos
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
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.Ovid
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.Georges Bataille
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
Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.Spanish Prove
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
