Light Quotes
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.Mohammed Daud Khan
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures...Geronimo
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.William Safire
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light.Maurice Freehill
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.Logan Pearsall Smith
Knowledge is love and light and vision.Helen Kelle
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.Voltaire
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
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color - Blind.Albert Schweitze
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.Mark Twain
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.Jess Lai
The Lord is my light and my salvation - So why should I be afraid.Bible, Psalm 27: 1 NLT
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
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
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
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
May you never know hunger May you love with a full heart The light burn in your eyes May the fire be your friend And the sea rock you gently May the moon light your way Till the wind sets you free.Shriekback, "Cradle Song".
Intelligence is nothing without delight.Paul Claudel
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is colorblind.Albert Schweitze
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.Thomas Paine
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals... must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.Isaac Watts
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help 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
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
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.John Barrymore
Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.Jane Porte
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.Charles Robert Darwin
Energy is eternal delight.William Blake
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
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.Jane Goodall
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.Unknown
Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.John Fletcher, 1647
You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.Samuel Johnson
