Quotes About Light And Hope

#1. Connor has always been light to her. Pure light and hope in the face of sorrow and despair.

Andrea Cremer

#2. So, instead, I try to put in light and hope for the best.

Ben Linder

#3. Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there's always light and hope in the world.

J.D. Robb

#4. My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

Yoko Ono

#5. When the lows are so immense, victories are small. But they are there despite it. You just have to know them when you see them, little pockets of light and hope hidden away in darkness.

Cecelia Ahern

#6. On the sound of handcuffs--
"For me it's the sound of all light and hope crashing down on a minority.

Moctezuma Johnson

#7. Only with a relationship with God, can you become light and hope for your country and the whole world

Sunday Adelaja

#8. All accusation is of the devil, no matter where it comes from. It is just as dangerous to accuse others as it is to give the accuser room in your own life. The accuser gives no hope. God does not accuse us, but He does give us promptings that bring light and hope.

Esther Smith

#9. I love the flowers for their beauty and dazzling smile. I love the moon for its soothing light and changing style.

Debasish Mridha

#10. There are black men who are madly in love with white women. God bless them, if that's what works for them. I just hope that we can strike a balance that portrays black folks and the black family in a light that's not extreme. Those are the types of characters that I find myself attracted to.

Nia Long

#11. The hope of Elevation has to remain something random, impossible to see properly, given not to those who earn it but to those with no discernible right to it. Resentment, fear, loathing, and a tiny, flickering light of hope always just out of reach, that is Hell, yes?

Simon Kurt Unsworth

#12. This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light.

Maria Montessori

#13. Someday all you will have to light your way will be a single ray of hope and that will be enough.

Kobi Yamada

#14. The cold seemed less relentless now. The small circle of white light from my bedside lamp and its hint of the dawn to come seemed to drive the worst of the chill away and the hot tea did the rest, as I lay and read further into the life of the young woman in the bravado coat.

Jane Lovering

#15. Babies have millions of brain cells. They are like light bulbs waiting to be turned on. Don't wait for them to go to school and hope for the best.

Tony Buzan

#16. Only God is able. It is faith in Him that we must rediscover. With this faith we can transform bleak and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of joy and bring new light into the dark caverns of pessimism.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#17. Hope is the light in your being which enlightens your heart and makes it ready to sing.

Debasish Mridha

#18. A bit of mist and light suffice for life to overpower nothingness. A bit of hope and time suffice for you to cross the mountain trails of myth; you were spared the fate of your ancestors. So borrow the wisdom of the anemones and say: Nothingness does not concern me, even if death besieges me.

Mahmoud Darwish

#19. Knowledge is the value of a diamond but wisdom is the beauty and light it reflects.

Debasish Mridha

#20. We have a light upon our house, and it gives hope to all who sail upon the stormy seas. Do ya know what it means to have a light burning atop your home? It is safety, a place of refuge, seen by all that as a signal that ye stand for something greater than this world, greater than us all.

James Michael Pratt

#21. When all hope seems lost and your life's in disarray, just call on your Angel, who will light your way!

Raphaelle Peale

#22. Light of my heart is my spirit through which I created my universe,
and I see the beauty of my sun, my moon and my dazzling stars.

Debasish Mridha

#23. The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

Audre Lorde

#24. Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again

David Clement-Davies

#25. All of these are like sparks in the midnight sky, shedding their light on a world where even a flicker of hope shines like a beacon, illuminating the seas of darkness.

John A. Ashley

#26. There will be glimpses of hope, shards of refracted light at the Cross when Jesus is crucified, but on the way there is very little. Sobering, yet truthful. We are reminded that others who have sought hope and freedom have had to endure without much to go on, too.

Megan McKenna

#27. You have a light in your heart and that is your love, it can shine like a sun to enlighten the whole world.

Debasish Mridha

#28. Why wait? So precious is this life - this gift - this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.

Jennifer DeLucy

#29. I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope - only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words.

Charles Lee

#30. Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever.

Shannon L. Alder

#31. How much does the iron in your blood and the calcium in your bones remember of the heart of the star in which they were born? And if they can forget that terrible, magnificent heat and light, what hope do I have of being more than an unremarkable footnote to you?

Seanan McGuire

#32. To die,
so young to die.
No, no, not I,
I love the warm sunny skies,
light, song, shining eyes,
I want no war, no battle cry,
No, no, not I.

Hannah Senesh

#33. I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.

Thomas Jefferson

#34. In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance. It has a name that they call hope and it carries with it people that never stop caring. They learned long ago that extending mercy was not a choice, but a place where God lives.

Shannon L. Alder

#35. Where, in the dull eyes of doating men, are the laughing light and life of childhood, the gaiety that has known no check, the frankness that has felt no chill, the hope that has never withered, the joys that fade in blossoming?

Charles Dickens

#36. No matter how hopeless you feel, strive to find the one thing that makes you feel alive and pull yourself to the light at the end of the tunnel. There is hope. Trust me.

Tammy-Louise Wilkins

#37. Look at the magnificence of love,
At this heavenly dusk,
Wind is singing the song of joy,
The sun is kissing the ocean.
Saying goodbye for the night
Promising to wake her up
At the dawn of life,
With the touch of his warmth
and light.

Debasish Mridha

#38. That is the nature of hope. We do all we can, and then the Lord stretches forth his hand and touches our lives with light and courage and, most of all, hope.

Dwan J. Young

#39. You're light, Victoria. And when you're ready, I hope I get to make you shine again.

J.B. Hartnett

#40. I shuffle along, letting the current pull me, and i have the sense that I am like a rat caught in a maze of tunnels, moving endlessly toward some promise of ... of what? Light? Life? Cheese?

Lisa Ann Sandell

#41. It takes great courage and determination, to keep looking for light in all the darkness of life.

Menna Van Praag

#42. Hope replaced fear. Light subsumed darkness. Strength, born of the power of this presence, mingled with Kathryn's own determination and reordered the last of her mangled body and soul, realigning them into all that she had once been.
What she would now be was once again an open question.

Kirsten Beyer

#43. Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.

Oliver Goldsmith

#44. Dad always told me there are more stories in the universe than stars in the sky. And in every story, there's the light of hope. That's why the seniors sent lanterns up to the sky-to make sure the darkness is never absolute.

Marieke Nijkamp

#45. Look to the east," she said, "for always, while the light dies in the west, there is the promise of rebirth from the east.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#46. The underlying melody via every rock, plant, animal, sky and star, inside the water, from the dirt, through the light: only love lasts.

Melina Sempill Watts

#47. I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.

Joseph Conrad

#48. There will always be a spiritual light that beckons to us, giving us the hope of rescue and relief.

L. Whitney Clayton

#49. Forgiveness is a light and a gift for you. It makes you blissful, whatever you do.

Debasish Mridha

#50. In the darkest sky, stars hang on high; showing us the light of hope and telling us that dreams never die, don't see the darkness, wait for the morning sun.

Debasish Mridha

#51. Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

Laini Taylor

#52. The things we hope for lead us to faith, while the things we hope in lead us to charity. The three qualities faith, hope, and charity working together, grounded on the truth and light of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, lead us to abound in good works

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#53. How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like light in a prism. What we hope to present is a version of those spirituals, and they speak not just to black Americans, but to people worldwide.

Kathleen Battle

#54. And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.
from The Light, That Never Dies

Aberjhani

#55. A blossom full of promise is life's joy,
That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time,
Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light,
And it looks flourishing
a little while
'T is pass'd, we know not whither, but 't is gone.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#56. Education is the light of our soul and joy of our life. We enlighten ourselves and the world with our education.

Debasish Mridha

#57. That said, nothing builds reader involvement more surely than a character whose moral struggle pervades the tale. When readers hope, beg, and plead with you to let a character turn toward the light, you have readers where you want them. A character who is good is good; a character

Donald Maass

#58. I hope you discover that love is both a feeling and an action, like light is both a particle and a wave.

Iain S. Thomas

#59. We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#60. Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!

John Greenleaf Whittier

#61. I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examine more closely in the light of day.

Roger Martin

#62. But it is not for thy valour only that I send thee, but to bring into the world a hope beyond thy sight, and a light that shall pierce the darkness.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#63. Love is the light through which we find joy and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#64. Bing Crosby and I weren't the types to go around kissing each other. We always had a light jab for each other. One of our stock lines used to be "There's nothing I wouldn't do for Bing, and there's nothing he wouldn't do for me." And that's the way we go through life - doing nothing for each other!

Bob Hope

#65. All too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle. When no such thing occurs, they feel extremely disappointed. But the real miracle of meditation is more ordinary and much more useful ...

Sogyal Rinpoche

#66. In those days of darkness don't despair or fear,
brighten the light of hope and desires with care.

Debasish Mridha

#67. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the brightest light and the only hope for this darkened world.

Dallin H. Oaks

#68. Each of us is born into this life with a light inside us... What's most important is to never let that light go out, because when you do, it means you've lost yourself to darkness. It means you've lost hope. And hope is what makes this world a beautiful place.

John Searles

#69. FIRST CIRCLE. Here they find the VIRTUOUS PAGANS. They were born without the light of Christ's revelation, and, therefore, they cannot come into the light of God, but they are not tormented. Their only pain is that they have no hope.

Dante Alighieri

#70. It's not enough to vanquish the darkness. True victory lies in spreading the light.

Sarah Brownlee

#71. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#72. Say a prayer for those who are overcome by despair and grief. Light candles of hope for all in their darkness!

Timothy Pina

#73. And where there are shadows, there is light, Liebchen.

J.W. Horton

#74. [A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.

Christine De Pizan

#75. The hope or climbing aspiration of a divine child is to receive and achieve Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure.

Sri Chinmoy

#76. I've realized now that our world doesn't define us. We define our world. And I hope you'll fill yours with as much light and happiness as you can.

Shannon Messenger

#77. Where the light is, and each thing clear,Separate from all others, standing in its place,I drink the time and touch whatever's near,And hope for day when the whole world has that face:For what assures her present every year?In dark accidents the mind's sufficient grace.

Delmore Schwartz

#78. When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

Daisaku Ikeda

#79. No matter how bleak and black her existence became, the familiar sight of the moon restored something within her, small as it was - like tiny fluttering wings of flame beating back the darkness.

Shona Moyce

#80. Some day the road that you choose will be your destiny
The hope and the anxiety you grasped tightly
Will surely move you and me, because it will become a light

Anonymous

#81. When all seems dark and there is no light,
Hope is the candle that always burns bright.

Divya Singh

#82. And meanwhile take my assurance that the clouds are lifting and that I have every hope that the light of truth is breaking through

Arthur Conan Doyle

#83. Be the source of love and spread the light of love like the morning sun.

Debasish Mridha

#84. Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light together, nor does the one shine without the other.

Pietro Metastasio

#85. 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

#86. I want to inspire through example. I hope my books motivate others to open doors and windows that will help them to embrace their own truth, light and joy.

Alexandra Stoddard

#87. The soul seeks growth; as Truth, as Life, as Light, is in itself. God is, and so is life, light, truth, hope, love. And those that abide in same, grow. Those that abide in the shadow of the night, or the conditions that become or make for the fruits of these, do not grow.

Edgar Cayce

#88. On the way of life, love is the way and the light. Express your love on the way; the destination will be bright.

Debasish Mridha

#89. He sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify it by hope. He said: - Have a care of the manner in which you turn towards the dead. Think not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living light of your well-beloved dead in the depths of heaven.

Victor Hugo

#90. We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars
glued together with magic and music and words.

Anita Krishan

#91. And then,
There was a love
Shining so bright,
That even the darkest part
Of our hearts
Felt the warmth

Bryonie Wise

#92. Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There's no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.

Carrie Hope Fletcher

#93. The very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism ... It [was] developed ... in the hope of throwing light upon questions of policy. But policy means nothing unless there is an authority to carry it out, and authorities are national.

Joan Robinson

#94. When you see the sadness in life, be compassionate. When you see the darkness, become the light and be passionate.

Debasish Mridha

#95. The universe never complains.
When you're wrong or right,
She always loves and cares,
She always gives and shares.
When you get lost she becomes the light,
Helps you to find what is right.
But she never forgets
To show you the light.

Debasish Mridha

#96. Taking a step forward, I stood in the light, tilted my head back and closed my eyes. It held my face and wrapped its arms around my shoulders, and for the very first time, I let hope in. (Lillian Hunt)

Jennifer DeLucy

#97. You only need grace to allow the light and good spirit of your sacred-self to exist.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#98. Depression, is like trying to find a light switch in pitch darkness. Defeating it takes much assistance and resource. First, it's letting in loved ones that are reaching out, when light will begin to shine.

Anthony Liccione

#99. None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

Dean Koontz

#100. For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light.
The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that was her secret ...
It is a word ... the word hangs on a silver chain. The word is HOPE.

Dean Koontz