Light Quotes
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.George Eliot
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
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
Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.Ralph Waldo Emerson
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self - Righteousness - - Each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - - Each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.Herbert Butterfield
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.Giovanni Ruffini
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.Douglas Adams
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
Once in a while you get shown the light in the stangest of places if you look at it right.Jerry Garcia, Scarlet Bergonias
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.Desiderius Erasmus
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.Samuel Johnson
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
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.Margaret Fulle
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
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, physicist
All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You - - You alone have the stars as no one else has them.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.Lao Tzu
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.Seneca
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.Hodding Carte
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy.Mahatma Gandhi
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
The Lord is my light and my salvation - So why should I be afraid.Bible, Psalm 27: 1 NLT
I hope they never find out that lightning has a lot of vitamins in it, because do you hide from it or not.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.Rabindranath Tagore
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.Plato
We burn daylight.William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 4
The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.Robert Hutchins
One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.Woodrow Wilson
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
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.Marquis de Sade
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
Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.Alastair Reid
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
Blessed are the cracked For they shall let in the light.Unknown
Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
