Top 100 Giving Light Quotes
#2. Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
Ramana Maharshi
#3. When you are the Spirit, you are like a brilliant diamond, which is giving light by itself.
Nirmala Srivastava
#4. The way of fortune, is like the Milken Way in the sky; which is a meeting or knot of a number of small stars; not seen asunder, but giving light together.
Francis Bacon
#5. You are not the clouds or even the blue sky where clouds live. You are the sun behind them, giving light to all, and the sun is made up of goodness and kindness and light.
Francisco X Stork
#7. The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Francis Bacon
#8. A learned man said: The learned men are the lights of the ages. Each is a light in his own time giving light to the people of his time.
Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
#9. As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and Africa. Long after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people
Kwame Nkrumah
#10. A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#11. Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.
Carl Jung
#12. You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.
Josemaria Escriva
#13. Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving light, dying.
Sara Teasdale
#14. It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.
Mother Teresa
#15. In a land of fear ... incorruptibility is like a lamp set upon a stand, giving light to all in the house.
Alan Paton
#16. In this life, we are not garments which may be washed and worn again, Karris. We are candles, giving light and heat until we are consumed. You burned more brightly than most. It has a cost. Mediocrities like me? Dim flames burn longer.
Brent Weeks
#17. We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.
Frederick Lenz
#18. Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.
Sam Kean
#19. A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.
William Cowper
#20. Never give up hope. Situations can change over night, problems can dissolve in the light of a new day's sun.
Leon Brown
#21. Within the universe there is a pure light. It is a light that is beyond all darkness. It does not give way to anything. It is the light of existence, the dharmakaya.
Frederick Lenz
#22. Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings.
Laozi
#23. Give a Little Bit has a wonderful message and makes people light up and I get them to sing with me. It really has a message that is very eternal and is needed even more today than it was when I wrote it when I was 19.
Roger Hodgson
#24. I think it's very important for me to work on myself while I'm working on a character, and also it's important how I'm giving to and educating an audience. So I tend to go with people who are complex and substantive.
Judith Light
#25. I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.
Swami Vivekananda
#26. Disrespect is tired. Shade is old. Sipping 'tea' isn't cute. But loving, supporting, giving, being grateful and perpetuating light, is.
Grace Gealey
#28. It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#29. I give myself the green light to move forward, and to joyously embrace the new.
Louise Hay
#30. Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare.
Peter Brook
#31. Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.
Rumi
#32. The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.
Sydney, Lady Morgan
#33. Don't let the darkness of your past block the light of joy in your present. What happened is done. Stop giving time to things that no longer exist when there is so much joy to be found in the here and now.
Karen Salmansohn
#34. To some degree...he has the same effect on people. People naturally flock to him. It's like he's giving off a light that I don't have. It's so bright I feel like I'll be extinguished.
Natsuki Takaya
#35. There will always be a spiritual light that beckons to us, giving us the hope of rescue and relief.
L. Whitney Clayton
#36. If somebody gives me a chance to do something, I am going to use that space, that time, that light, that whatever it is and try and work with it.
Robert Barry
#37. Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.
George D. Prentice
#38. The darkness inside you allows for a more human experience. Giving you the very thing you lacked before: an insider's knowledge of the two faces of man - the constant struggle between darkness and light.
Alyson Noel
#39. LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.
Ambrose Bierce
#40. Col. 1:12-13 Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light; who delivered us out of the authority of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.
Witness Lee
#41. Y May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for z all endurance and patience a with joy, 12. b giving thanks [4] to the Father, who has qualified you [5] to share in c the inheritance of the saints in light.
Anonymous
#42. Annamaria had preferred oil rather than electric lamps. She said that sunshine grows plants, the plants express essential oils, and years later those oils fire the lamps - giving back 'the light of the other days'.
Dean Koontz
#43. Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
John Dryden
#44. Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off.
Fannie Hurst
#45. When the song is over, the mikes turned off, the lights dimmed, all the glitter and glamour shed, and I am left alone with my own thoughts, free to contemplate the paths that led me to where I am today, I pause to give thanks.
CeCe Winans
#46. There are three kinds of explanation in science: explanations which throw a light upon, or give a hint at a matter; explanations which do not explain anything; and explanations which obscure everything.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#47. And if I had a camera
Showing all the light we give
And showing where the light extends
I'd give it to my friends
Dar Williams
#48. The icy cold will cut us like a knife in the darkAnd we may lose everything in the windBut the Northern Lights are burningAnd they're giving off sparks.
Jim Steinman
#49. When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.
Howard Barker
#50. I rest in the light of forgiveness. I forgive myself and others for that which is done (and better left undone) and also that which is not done (and better if done). I give myself permission to enjoy this moment without guilt. I freely release all uncertainty, regret, and fear.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#51. Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#52. Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only ... One dark and one light place in every picture.
William Morris Hunt
#53. Service is the joy-giving factor in daily life. It is as spontaneous as light, as subtle as electricity, as exhilarating as sunshine. It exists primarily as a spiritual attitude. It lies in the constant recognition of the brotherhood of humanity toward each and all with whom we come in contact.
Lilian Whiting
#54. Even today when I rehearse, I give it everything that I've got. If I'm in a performance and the lights go out, I glow in the dark. When you're working before an audience, you have to make them feel like they can touch you. That's the dancer within, reaching out.
Mitzi Gaynor
#55. The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of infinite things finally understood, the humiliating feeling of the watcher's nothingness.
Ayi Kwei Armah
#56. A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit.
Karl Kraus
#57. Christians are to be "the light of the world" [Matthew 5:14], illuminating the darkness caused by sin and giving guidance to a world that has lost its way.
Billy Graham
#58. When my mind is clear, I feel like I can give more of myself to those around me and hopefully bring light and joy and an infectious kind of energy to inspire them to do whatever they want to do. That's really the key behind it all.
Julianne Hough
#59. I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.
Keanu Reeves
#60. If you know someone that has given up hope, try giving that person some of your peace, joy, and faith!
Molly Friedenfeld
#61. The Limbaugh Theorem was not about me giving me credit for something. It was simply sharing with you when the light went off.
Rush Limbaugh
#62. For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.
Claude Monet
#63. The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.
Luc De Clapiers
#64. True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.
Martin Luther
#65. The sun may be gone, but the stars are still there, waiting, always giving you light.
Ilsa Madden-Mills
#66. Life is not about maximizing everything, it's about giving something back - like light, space, form, serenity, joy. You have to give something back.
Glenn Murcutt
#67. That wouldn't be a bad way to die...giving off light for millions of years after you're gone.
Jeff Zentner
#68. Help the world in any way that you want to. I have found that the more light you give and spread, the more you will evolve.
Frederick Lenz
#69. Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#70. We all have the power of light inside us, it's just that sometimes the darkness is stronger. Fear is like darkness, too. It can consume you. It will consume you. And when you let it consume you, it'll be hard as hell to break free from it. You have to fight it.
J. G. Whit
#71. I'm glad ... that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That Lindbergh kept flying.
Charles R. Swindoll
#72. Basking in the light and glory that comes with not giving a damn.
Alice Oseman
#73. Maybe love's more than the daily comforts: more than morning coffees and flowers and notes in my lunch bag and holding hands while watching the stars. It's about never giving up, believing in each other, and supporting each other through the good and the bad.
Shannon Mullen
#74. What an ambiance, and such a pity I'm alone: Candles giving off their glow, gusts of wind and the light tapping of rain on the windowpane - a massage for the mind. And a comforting one, too.
Donna Lynn Hope
#75. Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back as well and use that spotlight to shine, or at least to balance that light and to try to shine light onto the other issues that were happening in the world.
Serinda Swan
#76. You are my sunrise. Your smile lights up my world. I could give anything just to see you happy. True love is not in getting things from others but in giving and sharing more and more.
William Bernhardt
#77. So few things we need to know.
And the old wisdoms shudder in us and grow slack.
Like renunciation. Like the melancholy beauty
of giving it all up. Like walking steadfast
in the rhythms, winter light and summer dark.
And the time for cutting furrows and the dance
Robert Hass
#78. That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.
Nichiren
#79. We carry our house plants from one window to another to give them the proper heat, light, and moisture. Should we not be at least as careful of ourselves?
William George Jordan
#80. There are moments when we all step away from the light...
Gume Laurel III
#81. We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light ... We all have something to give.
George H. W. Bush
#82. The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.
Frederick Lenz
#83. Don't ask God to give you a light burden. Ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.
Bob Jones, Sr.
#84. The stars were withdrawn, small, giving no light, unlike other nights when they seemed to hang large from the sky ready to be reached for and taken into our hands.
Sanora Babb
#85. Scriptures are like packets of light that illuminate our minds and give place to guidance and inspiration from on high.
Richard G. Scott
#86. WHEN WE ARE OPEN AND GIVING OF OUR LIGHT, WE CREATE AN ENDLESS REFLECTION THAT OUTLIVES OUR HUMAN EXISTENCE.
Gary L. Friedman
#87. The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.
Anatole France
#88. I lived in the city of light for 4 years 10 months, the generosity of sacred souls sustain my livelihood.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#89. You can Light Up the Whole World by Giving without any Expectation Back.
Wayne Dyer
#90. The Sun, each second, transforms four million tons of itself into light, giving itself over to become energy that we, with every meal, partake of. For four million years, humans have been feasting on the Sun's energy stored in the form of wheat or reindeer.
Brian Swimme
Rob Brezsny
#91. First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides ... Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.
Gautama Buddha
#92. Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?
David Byrne
#93. Whoever wants light, should give light, so he receives his payment.
Samael Aun Weor
#94. He can run anytime he wants. I'm giving him the red light.
Yogi Berra
#95. To just burn out, to give up just because things don't go your way, to assume that there is no God, no infinite light - I think that's pretty petty, personally.
Frederick Lenz
#97. The Gospel must not be kept hidden because of fear or indifference. It was never meant to be hidden away in private. It has to be put on a stand so that people may see its light and give praise to our Heavenly Father.
Pope John Paul II
#98. When you allow the immature to dictate the terms of relationships, you are giving them the green light to exploit, neglect, or abuse you.
Paul Coughlin
#99. The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
Alexander Pope
#100. Praise
the invisible sun burning beyond
the white cold sky, giving us
light and the chimney's shadow.
Denise Levertov
