Light Quotes
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.Michel de Montaigne
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 more felicity can fall to creature, Than to enjoy delight with liberty.Spenser, Fate of the Butterfly
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.Voltaire
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
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.Saint Augustine
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
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.Kahlil Gibran
The fight is won or lost far away from witnessesbehind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.Muhammad Ali
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.Charles A. Lindbergh
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.Eugene Ionesco
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.Adlai Stevenson
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
Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.Francis Quarles
Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.Anonymous
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.William Butler Yeats
Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs
The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.Jean Baptiste Lacoraire
There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.N. P. Willis
The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ... and yet no endless sorrow.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
Energy is eternal delight.William Blake
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.Thomas De Quincey
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Plato
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790
They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.Roger Rosenblatt
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....Carl Zwanzig
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
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
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.Mark Twain
When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.Charles Dickens
Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.Jordan, Robert
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value.Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis".
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.Carl Sandburg
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
