Light Quotes
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.Michel de Montaigne
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.Carl Sagan
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.John Gay
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
Just being happy helps other souls along Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song.Ripley D. Saunders
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.Desiderius Erasmus
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.Carl Jung, "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", 1962
Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.C. V. R. Thompson
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.Thomas Fulle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Dr. Martin Luther King
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.William Butler Yeats
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 and where there is sadness, joy.Unknown
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.John Owen
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
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, physicist
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.Thomas A. Edison
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
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.Helen Keller, "The World at Her Fingertips" by Joan Dash
The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ... and yet no endless sorrow.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is to give light must endure burning.Dr. Viktor E Frankl
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an 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
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
Life is like and ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.Sharon Salzberg
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.Kahlil Gibran
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".
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have delighted us long enough.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.Karl Kraus
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.George Bernard Shaw
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
When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity, which delights you and makes you giddy.Ferdinand Hodle
