Illuminating Life Quotes

#1. Now and then in life, love catches you unawares, illuminating the dark corners of your mind, and filling them with radiance. Once in awhile you are faced with a beauty and a joy that takes your soul, all unprepared, by assault.

Jennifer Worth

#2. Nonfiction brought me back to earth and sobered me up whenever it seemed like I'd become too drunk on the lives and loves of imaginary people, but that doesn't mean it was any less thrilling or transporting, although it was often more illuminating.

Laura Miller

#3. A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

Mitch Albom

#4. Severe illness wasn't life-altering, it was life-shattering. It felt less like an epiphany - a piercing burst of light, illuminating What Really Matters - and more like someone had just firebombed the path forward.

Paul Kalanithi

#5. The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to the ear of the student of Nature seems echoed from every part of her works, is - Time! - Time! - Time!

George Poulett Scrope

#6. It was when I firmly pressed myself against my grindstone of life, did my most illuminating sparks fly.

Garry Fitchett

#7. Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths.

Harold Bloom

#8. Love is a magic ray
emitted from the burning core
of the soul
and illuminating
the surrounding earth.
It enables us
to perceive life
as a beautiful dream
between one awakening
and another.

Kahlil Gibran

#9. And the light by which she had been reading the book of life, blazed up suddenly, illuminating those pages that had been dark, then flickered, grew dim. and went out forever.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. Had there been no sun, life would have found some other means of illuminating the world. It is odd that we give the sun so much importance.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#11. I really wanted to support this campaign because I love heart shaped glasses. Seriously though, I've never hit anyone. I'm anti-violence full stop. Against women, against men, against animals. Against anything.

Max Rushden

#12. It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath.

Sterling Marlin

#13. Bu-shi-do means literally Military-Knight-Ways - the ways which fighting nobles should observe in their daily life as well as in their vocation; in a word, the "Precepts of Knighthood," the noblesse oblige of the warrior class.

Inazo Nitobe

#14. One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

#15. Magnificent beauty of nature inviting you to long for her, to love her, and then purify your heart and mind with the illuminating beauty of nature.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the nature of life.

Paul Nurse

#17. While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find.

Elissa Schappell

#18. She came closer, reaching up to inspect the cut on my brow, her breasts so close to my chest, the heat of her body warmed me right through our clothes. "Jason, we need to get you to a hospital. Your brain could be swelling."
Oh, something was swelling for sure, but it was nowhere near my brain.

Lisa Kessler

#19. 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

#20. I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker.

Jon Oringer

#21. In a town in Calabria, a long time ago, there lived an old lady everyone called Strega Nona, which meant "Grandma Witch".

Tomie DePaola

#22. I'd always welcomed war, but in battle, my passion rose unbidden.

Andrea Cremer

#23. There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the labor of storing. But they sleep in the memory and awake in later years, illuminated by life and illuminating it.

Richard Livingstone

#24. If an individual has a calm state of mind,
that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil
even in the presence of great agitation.

Dalai Lama

#25. I am privileged to have your illuminating presence in my life that adds etherealness to my existence!

Avijeet Das

#26. There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

Alain Badiou