Light Quotes

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Erich Segal

Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

Jim Samuels

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

Adlai Stevenson

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

Albert Einstein

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened.

Newt Gingrich

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

It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Benjamin Johnson

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

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

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

Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Oscar Wilde

Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

Michael J. Gel

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

There are two kinds of light - - The glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

James Thurbe

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.

Sri Madhava

We burn daylight.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 4

My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.

The London Times

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

M Scott Peck

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

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Rita Rudne

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Max Planck

The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

James Arthur Baldwin

Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

Baltasar Gracian

Lighter is the wound foreseen.

Cato the Elde

I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.

Benjamin Franklin

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

Raymond Holliwell

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

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

Lyndon Johnson

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Benjamin Franklin

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

You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

J. Krishnamurti

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan