Light Quotes
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.George Goethals
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
Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.Jim Samuels
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
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
Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time
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 Where there is sadness, joy.Saint Francis of Assisi
In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.Haniel Long
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.Desiderius Erasmus
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
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
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
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.Carl Gustav Jung
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.A. Bronson Alcott
You conquer every hardness with your eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time.Michelangelo, Poem Fragment
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.Mahatma Gandhi
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.William Shakespeare
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.Henry David Thoreau
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.Carl Jung
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Dylan Thomas
It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.Richard J. Ferris, president, United Airlines
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.Seneca
Do not judge men by mere appearances for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.E. H. Chapin
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.Og Mandino
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, January 2004
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.Amos Tversky
Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.Anonymous, Greensleeves
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
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
I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.Martin Luthe
Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.Horace
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.Bernard Meltze
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
