Light Quotes

Charles kingsley - look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain...
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
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Charles robert darwin - i have called this principle, by which each...
I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one anothe.
Theodore Hesburgh
Paul claudel - intelligence is nothing without delight....
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
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
Unknown
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.
Karl Kraus
Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.
Washington Irving, American writer and poet
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith
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
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
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.
Jamie Lee Curtis
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.
Dag Hammarskjold
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
George Santayana
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
He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.
Jim Samuels
People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry, Flight of White Crows
Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.
Woodrow Wilson
The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.
Desiderius Erasmus
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it.
Jesse Lai
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
Cato the Elde
You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.
Dag Hammarskjld
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened.
Newt Gingrich
Put out the light.
Theodore Roosevelt, last words, 6 January 1919
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
John Gay