Light Matters Quotes

#1. In light matters
matters of small consequence, like religion and politics and such things
he never acquired a conviction that could survive a disapproving remark from a cat.

Mark Twain

#2. Light matters should be dealt with seriously. Serious matters should be dealt with lightly.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#3. Dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.

Simon Raven

#4. Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.

James Gleick

#5. Little minds try to solve the matters through violence and darkness; great minds try to solve the matters through love and light!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled ... in a unique and inimitable way.

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can take something that matters so deeply to you and make it matter to someone else.

Jennifer Donnelly

#8. We all have light and dark inside us, what matters is the path we decide to take.

Stephenie Meyer

#9. It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

Boris Pasternak

#10. We're all trying to get to the same island, whether you swim, fly, surf, or skydive in, it doesn't matter. What matters is when the red light [camera] comes on.

Jerry Seinfeld

#11. You're a very good person who bad things have happened to. Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Brene Brown

#12. Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

C.S. Lewis

#13. 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

#14. The light may cast many reflections but is it still the light that matters.

Simon R. Green

#15. Purity is developed through caring. You need to care about light and the matters of light, truth, religion and spirituality.

Frederick Lenz

#16. I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it.

Peter Doig

#17. In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That's both because of the physicality of computing - where the speed of light still matters - and because of geopolitics.

Satya Nadella

#18. When you're older, you will realise the only thing that matters, the only thing, is that you had courage and honour. Lose those things and you won't die any quicker, but you'll be less than the dirt on our boots. You'll still be dust, but you'll have wasted your short time in the light.

Conn Iggulden

#19. I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.

Michele Bachmann

#20. In the road of right and wrong, trust me and hold my hand. Let's walk into the cave none has ever strayed into, where nothing matters except us. With the light, you hold in your eyes, let me destroy all the darkness in there.

Akshay Vasu

#21. Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength for my Lord, and sew the holes that hold you near. Keep me heaven my soul has holes.

Anthony Liccione

#22. We are all trying to get to the same island, whether you swim, fly, surf or skydiving. What matters is when the red light comes on.
Jerry Seinfeld to Michael Richards in Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

Jerry Seinfeld

#23. It may be all dark now, but it will soon be light; it may be all trial now, but it will soon be all happiness. What matters it though "weeping may endure for a night," when "joy cometh in the morning?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#24. God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.

Richard Sibbes

#25. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are
-Sirious Black, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

J.K. Rowling

#26. Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams
In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight
That yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams,
And shoot the shadows through and through with light?
What matters one lost vision of the night?
Let the dream go! ...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#27. What has come to light is neither nihilism nor cynicism, as one might have expected, but a quite extraordinary confusion over elementary questions of morality - as if an instinct in such matters were truly the last thing to be taken for granted in our time.

Hannah Arendt

#28. Carry your light to every dark corner.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. for us to get to our final destination, the road is not always level or smooth. Sometimes it's full of rocks and cliffs, and slippery slopes, and to make matters worse, we're walking in the dark. Perhaps life isn't to question the road, but to persevere until the light comes.

Natasha Deen

#30. A weapon is merely a weapon, nothing more. What matters is how you use it.

Kaoru Kurimoto

#31. Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.

Iris Murdoch

#32. It doesn't really matter whether we reflect the light through our authentic gifts or whether our authentic calling is to spread it. What matters is that tonight is that the world is dark, cold, and bleak. Your flame burns so brightly. Share your Love and warmth with others. Watch the Light return.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#33. This work of connecting our light to the world does not need to be done through a mass movement, or by millions of people ... The real work is always done by a small number of individuals. What matters is the level of participation: whether we dare to make a real commitment to the work of the soul.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

#34. Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved.

Frederick Buechner

#35. It matters not how fast light may travel, darkness shall always be there awaiting its arrival.

Mark W. Boyer

#36. But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by definition, uncertainty. It is full of doubt, steeped in risk. It is about matters not of the known, but of the unknown.

Carter Heyward