Light Quotes
Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.Oscar Wilde
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.Martin Luther King, Jr.
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.James Albert Michene
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.Karl Kraus
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.Charles Simmons
One kernel is felt in a hogshead one drop of water helps to swell the ocean a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.Hannah More
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
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.Oscar Wilde
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.Helen Keller, "The World at Her Fingertips" by Joan Dash
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.Bertrand Russell
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
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.Thomas Campbell
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
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.Kahlil Gibran
The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.Robertson Davies
Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.Baltasar Gracian
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.Rabindranath Tagore
When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.Frank Outlaw
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.John Barrymore
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.George Bernard Shaw
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.Firmianus Lactantius
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.Kahlil Gibran
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.Henry Fielding
The truth, as the light, makes blind.Albert Camus
Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it - - To that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.George Jean Nathan
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.Maya Angelou
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
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.Buddha
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.Roosevelt, Eleano
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious - Minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious - Minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.Johann von Goethe
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.Georges Bataille
Begin today No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have.Henry C. Blinn
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.Robert Frost
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.Dag Hammarskjld
