Top 100 Own Light Quotes
#1. Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
Jose Marti
#2. In our witness, we are to shine not our own light but Christ's light. Just as a lamp requires oil, we depend on our fellowship with Christ and the Holy Spirit's enlivening ministry through God's Word in order that Christ's light may shine through us.
Richard D. Phillips
#3. I live in my own light, I drink back into myself the flames that break from me
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
Nelson Mandela
#5. And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.
Vincent Bugliosi
#6. Don't stand in the way of your own light. Let yourself shine as you were meant to shine, for only you can.
Karlyle Tomms
#7. Make no mistake, every child has his own light, no matter how difficult or defiant or unlikeable he or she might seem.
Nancy Rose
#8. Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#10. Marry, sir, she's the kitchen wench and all grease; and I know not what use to put her to but to make a lamp of her and run from her by her own light.
William Shakespeare
#11. We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
Earl Nightingale
#12. Be someone who lives with joy, with purpose, as your own light brightly shines. Be, in every moment, the special someone you are truly meant to be.
Ralph Marston
#13. If a soul is not honoring his or her journey by dimming his or her own light, a Guardian of Light steps forward on behalf of that soul and states, I am going to honor you, for I know you hold immense value in the eyes of the Universe and I can still see your light.
Molly Friedenfeld
#14. Only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ...
John Geddes
#16. Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?
Ray Bradbury
#17. Selfhood is a heavy, hardly translucent medium, which cuts off most of the light of reality and distorts what little it permits to pass.' This is Huxley's central notion [of Grey Eminence], that we should 'stand out of our own light' in order to see the eternal truths.
Nicholas Murray
#18. Amiability shines by its own light.
Horace
#19. Innocence always follow the guidance of its own light.
Publilius Syrus
#20. We Christians identify Christ with the sun, and the moon with the Church, the community of the faithful. No one, save Jesus Christ, possesses his or her own light.
Pope Francis
#21. Genius is among other minds what the carbuncle is among gemstones; it radiates its own light while the others only reflect what they receive.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#23. No one can stop you from shinning if you are standing in your own light.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#24. Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you.
Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon.
Rumi
#25. At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer
#26. To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.
Carl Jung
#27. Some flowers need to be alone, for some time, even if it's lonely. They need to find themselves, to stand in their own light.
Anne Linn Kaland
#29. Had Jupiter been several dozen times more massive, the matter in its interior would have undergone thermonuclear reactions, and Jupiter would have begun to shine by its own light. The largest planet is a star that failed.
Carl Sagan
#30. Be original, stop pretending to be someone you are not, be your own light in this world.
Leon Brown
#31. I've been waiting nearly twenty years to have my own light saber. Nothing's cooler than being a Jedi Knight.
Ewan McGregor
#32. We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#33. No more my heart shall sob or grieve. My days and nights dissolve in God's own Light. Above the toil of life, my soul is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite.
Sri Chinmoy
#34. Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.
Rajneesh
#36. To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#37. The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
Stanley Kubrick
#38. It is time to search out your uniqueness, applaud and acknowledge yourself, and let your own light shine.
Debbie Ford
#39. Daylight was coming outside, but it was not only that: courage cast its own light.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#40. Our inner battle is the wall that separates us from our own light.
Margrit Irgang
#41. To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.
Jose Marti
#42. Girl, you need to learn a lesson about standing in your own light.
Rainbow Rowell
#43. If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortions; your own light and beauty will become blurred, awkward, and ugly. Your sense of inner beauty has to remain a very private thing.
John O'Donohue
#44. Seeing the moon, he becomes the moon, the moon seen by him becomes him. He sinks into nature, becomes one with nature. The light of the "clear heart" of the priest, seated in the meditation hall in the darkness before the dawn, becomes for the dawn moon its own light.
Yasunari Kawabata
#45. As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.
Meister Eckhart
#47. Stars don't have their own light to glint. It is supplied by sun by burning self. One endures pain for others to survive.
Sadashivan Nair
#48. To be a star, you must walk your own path, shine your own light and not be afraid of the darkness, that's when a star shines the brightest.
Joel Brown
#49. They said even in the storm we'll find some lights, So here I am trying to find my own light in my stormy days.
Karla M. Nashar
#51. I've got to stop looking at you, like you light my world. You're the dark cloud which brings the rain. You're the hurricane which destroys my peace. You are not the sun. I am my own light.
LeAnne Mechelle
#52. You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.
Marianne Williamson
#53. Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.
Egon Schiele
#54. Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#56. Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other words.
Frederick Lenz
#57. Being your own light ensures that you will never need another to pull you out of darkness again.
Gary Hopkins
#59. The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
Pope Benedict XVI
#60. The reality is that each movie has got to be seen in its own light.
Joel Silver
#61. Getting sucked into other people's ego dysfunction & darkness robs you of your own light.
Oprah Winfrey
#63. My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.
Chris Abani
#64. As children we learned our shadow
is a darkness we never totally shake
until we lie down, pull the shades,
draw the curtains, shut out the world,
and turn our own light out.
B.J. Ward
#65. Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.
Philip Guston
#66. Earthly Angels do not allow other souls to dim their light; they just keep shining bright as the sun, for this helps other souls to reconnect with their own light and shine brightly too!
Molly Friedenfeld
#67. I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's trick, that act of creation is its own light.
Janette Turner Hospital
#68. You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.
Rumi
#69. BE LIMITLESS,
CHANGE YOUR LIFE,
UNFOLD YOUR POTENTIAL,
BECOME YOUR OWN LIGHT,
ABILITY OF POSSIBILITY.
Ana Maria Frith, Limitless Change Your Life Book
Ana M Frith
#70. Find the light and it will show you the path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that is right.
Rajneesh
#71. I find this less scandalous than beautiful: a kind of palimpsestic plagiarism that moves through bodies and time, a collective song with no single origin, or whose origin has been erased
the way a star, from our earthly perspective, is often survived by its own light.
Ben Lerner
#72. Poor old Venus didn't even make her own light, Dad said. She shone only from reflected light.
Jeannette Walls
#73. Then, the door opens and there he is; silhouetted in the hall light. Long hair, long legs, and a heartbeat in tune with my own.
Hunter S. Jones
#74. the memorial stained-glass window dedicated to the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, on whose side God had been in two world wars, though this hadn't prevented them suffering heavy casualties.
David Nobbs
#75. Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.
Bear Grylls
#76. Live by the light of your own heart... but make sure this heart is silent and empty.
Mooji
#77. I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.
Ian Anderson
#78. Amelia looked at the eggs-like sickly, jaundiced eyes-and thought of her own eggs, a handful left, old shrivelled like musty dried fruit where once they must have been bursting toward the light-
Kate Atkinson
#79. As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light.
Susan Jeffers
#80. You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream.
Dejan Stojanovic
#81. Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.
Tyler Perry
#82. Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?
Albert Schweitzer
#83. Even if you cannot always see that silver lining on your clouds, God can, for He is the very source of the light you seek. He does love you, and He knows your fears. He hears your prayers. He is your Heavenly Father, and surely He matches with His own the tears His children shed.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#84. As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors.
Miguel Serrano
#85. Find my hand in the darkness, intertwined you will be the day to my night. We can share wings and take flight towards our own inner light.
Truth Devour
#86. since the moment those photons left our own sun, I had been born, raised, educated, inducted into the Commonwealth Defense Corps, and trained to fly a drop ship, and I had still beaten the light to Fomalhaut by a few days.
Marko Kloos
#87. It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#88. If one sees only unloveliness in others, it is because unloveliness is a strong element in himself. The light he throws on others is generated in his own soul and sees them as he chooses to see them.
Ernest Holmes
#89. Men are not in hell because God is angry with them. They are in wrath and darkness because they have done to the light , which infinitely flows forth from God , as that man does to the light who puts out his own eyes .
William Law
#90. Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway.
A.D. Posey
#91. But you must know that only he who fights the darkness within will the day after tomorrow have his own share in the sun.
Odysseus Elytis
#92. Everyone's light turns on at their own time.
Donald Young
#93. You choose to shine with the light of your own divinity, or you hide it with the shadows you create in your mind. You must choose where to live -in the light or the shadows. The most powerful tool you have is your power of choice.
Nirmalananda
#94. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Douglas Adams
#95. Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
Michel De Montaigne
#96. Everything is subtle. Everything has a million sides. Everything is a manifestation of god. Everything is light. All beings are infinite. All things are perfect, in their own way.
Frederick Lenz
#97. Placed in a puzzling light, and moving,
Our days put on such reticence
These accents seem their own defense.
John Ashbery
#98. We need to be willing to be uncomfortable, to be flawed, to be imperfect, to own our voice, to step into our light, so that we can continue to inspire other people and employ other people, and make room for more and more voices and presence.
Kerry Washington
#99. The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined.
Alice Oswald
#100. 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
