Top 100 Quotes About The Light
#1. Of the many species that have existed on earth
estimates run as high as fifty billion
more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.
more than a rounding error.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#2. The light will disturb us when we're comfortable, and comfort us when we're disturbed. We turn to spirit for help when our foundations are shaking only to find out that it is spirit who is shaking them!
Dan Millman
#3. Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.
Robert Adams
#5. Volumes upon volumes on exploration, war, violence, the life-threatening transformative journeys of man. But you can't talk about this. The fucking, the sadness, the dark, the blood, the light. They will burn you at the fucking stake for this shit.
Elisa Albert
#6. I am the Soul.
I am the Light Divine.
I am Love.
I am Will.
I am Fixed Design.
Alice Bailey
#7. Dear friend,
Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.
Al-Ghazali
#9. In the light, he looked like a fallen angel asked to return to Hell.
Caroline Cairn
#10. The beams and bridges cut the light on the ground into little triangles and the rails run round
Suzanne Vega
#11. When I am nothing but shadow, you are the light that guides me back.
Kristen Callihan
#12. You were the light in my dark world that gave me a path different from the one set by my father. I'll never forget that, and I'll always love you.
Elizabeth Isaacs
#13. Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single beam?
Eric Maisel
#14. We take it for granted, the world that we love - and we're destroying it so quickly. The light of dawn on the prairie. The silvery flash of fish in a stream. The cry of a hawk over a forest. Everybody has their own idea of the beautiful, and we'll surely miss it when it's gone.
Johan Rockstrom
#15. Red carpet dressing all depends on the climate. I think richer, deeper colours are more flattering on the body, but the opposite is true if you are in Cannes or St. Tropez where the light makes deep colours look heavy and unflattering.
Alice Temperley
#16. Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
Bram Stoker
#17. Happy Tuesday! Stay in the LIGHT. Hold onto positive things that elevate your spirit & be with positive people who make your life dance !
Tracey Edmonds
#18. The truth is the object of our lust
But the light is still so very dim ...
Andrea Barbosa
#19. She died early the next morning, her hand in mine, as the sun flooded through her window and the light in those luminous eyes of hers faded away forever.
Michael Schmicker
#20. No one sees life like you do, because you are no one. You change constantly, like the light outside the window.
Frederick Lenz
#21. I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Bette Midler
#22. Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in it enters in diffrent places but it all becomes one.
Teresa Of Avila
#23. Turning on the lights doesn't make cockroaches appear; the light merely reveals their presence. Similarly, college does not cause anyone to become an unbeliever; college merely reveals that a person was never a genuine believer to begin with.
Todd Friel
#24. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: 8. But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All
Anonymous
#25. I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.
Hayley Mills
#26. If you see the light at the end
of the tunnel, you're looking
through binoculars the wrong
way
Josh Stern
#27. She had now no inclination to trouble Gibbie's heart with what men call the plan of salvation. It was enough to her to find that he followed her Master. Being in the light she understood the light, and had no need of system, either true or false, to explain it to her.
George MacDonald
#28. The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long.
Cassandra Clare
#29. Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is a dark place are blind to the light that might illuminate their lives. Those who see the light of the world view the dark spots as merely potential light.
Wayne W. Dyer
#30. We could easily have evolved eyelids thick enough to keep out the light, but we still need to see the shadows fall across them. We're not yet safe.
Don Paterson
#31. Educators not only teach, but they also inspire students to learn, ignite the light of imaginations, shine the sense of perception, and define the path of life for future generations.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires
Richard Wright
#33. I got lost in the night, without the light
of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me
I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness.
Pablo Neruda
#34. A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light.
Michael Leunig
#35. Don't try to wring out all the answers before you move forward. Faith doesn't work that way. Step into the darkness and the light will appear to guide your next step. It's that first step into the unknown that stops us from progressing.
Toni Sorenson
#36. We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
Benjamin Tucker
#38. He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle.
Vladimir Nabokov
#39. In America and Europe, it was said, people know what is going to happen when they turn on the water tap or flick on the light switch. In India, a land of few safe assumptions, chronic uncertainty was said to have helped produce a nation of quick-witted, creative problem-solvers.
Katherine Boo
#40. The light that has guided us is still unquenched, and the causes that have carried us so far in the van of free nations have not spent their power; because the story of the future is written in the past, and that which hath been is the same thing that shall be.
Lord Acton
#41. Each of us experiences clouds in life - sometimes slight, but sometimes dark and frightening. Whatever clouds you face today, ask Jesus, the light of the world, to help you look behind the cloud to see His glory and His plans for you.
Billy Graham
#42. Jeff: Are you married?
Bubba J.: Yep.
Jeff: Your wife pretty?
Bubba J.: Ye... no!
Jeff: What's the difference?
Bubba J.: The light.
Jeff Dunham
#43. And so I step up, int the darkness within; or else the light.
Margaret Atwood
#44. Wherever you see a wall, demolish it to broaden the horizons of the world! Wherever you see a tyrant, take him down to increase the light of the world!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the
sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs.
Walter Russell
#47. The dark is better than the light as without the darkness there is no light.
Anonymous
#48. An invitation is extended to any true seeker who wants to find for himself the Light and Sound of God. This treasure is the birthright of Soul that leads to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Harold Klemp
#49. Sundown- When the sun must make peace with the moon and for a few brief moments, the two touch in mutual friendship and respect. Perfect balance between the light and dark. A time for reflection and for preparation.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#50. Always use those words, which will brighten the world with the light of love.
Debasish Mridha
#51. I want to ride my motorcycle up the side of the Luxor to the light and vanish.
Criss Angel
#52. The light from the sun breaks through space, bathing our planet as it encircles the sun with life-giving warmth and light. Without the sun, there could be no life on this planet; it would be forever barren, cold, and dark.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#53. The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.
Francis George
#54. The sun rolls along up Fourteenth Street and the ghost of a habit turns Cat's face into the light. She shields her eyes and looks east, half expecting to see her father, a sun-blown shadow in the diorama box of his newsstand.
Cari Luna
#55. Where you look is where your life goes. Head toward the light and only the light.
Zan Perrion
#56. It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light.
Hedley Bull
#57. The Journal of Discourses ranks as one of the standard works of the Church, and every right-minded Saint will certainly welcome with joy every Number as it comes forth from the press as an additional reflector of 'the light that shines from Zion's hill.
George Q. Cannon
#58. I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
Anne Lamott
#59. It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantage, the momentary pleasure; the snatching of seeming good to self; and to act for remoter ends, for higher good, and for interests other than our own.
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
#60. I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, which are so flattering when they catch the light. I love the designers Alexis Bittar and Kenneth Jay Lane, and I always go to jewellers Butler & Wilson.
Joan Collins
#61. I have too many secrets. For all these years I've been a speaker for the dead, uncovering secrets and helping people to live in the light of truth. Now I no longer tell anyone half of what I know, because if I told the whole truth there would be fear, hatred, brutality, murder, war.
Orson Scott Card
#62. And so I tell you, restless one, that no matter what happens, when things get dark, look to the light, and keep moving forward in faith.
Seth Adam Smith
#63. To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
Coventry Patmore
#64. Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.
Okakura Kakuzo
#65. I know she's just trying to make things nice, so I do my part. Now, when I get up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, I turn on the light. I used to just go by sonar: just keep peeing 'til you hear water.
Adam Ferrara
#66. Get out, Dragos said. The dragon was in his voice.
Except for the Light Fae male, all the customers rushed for the door.
Thea Harrison
#67. You're the light in all this madness. You're my light. I should have been with you ... " The thought hit him as his face crumpled in amazement. "Oh God, why am I not with you?"
"Because you're an idiot," I said.
Karina Halle
#68. I'm going to kick down that fucking door at the end of the long, dark hallway and show everyone that I deserve the light.
Tara Sivec
#69. You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb ... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.
Graydon Carter
#70. Marriage brings face to face two people committed to God whose face is distinctively revealed in each as they see each other in the light of God, shining on each countenance. God brought them close to each other because each was the other's answer from God, to rescue them from being alone.
Ravi Zacharias
#71. Truth: I realised there is no escaping reality but dreaming changes the perception of what it was to what it can become
C'mon now dream on dream big dream slow dream bright
Let your dreams flow let them take flight
Only your dreams alone can and will always show you the light
Lebogang Lynx Bopape
#72. I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.
Max Brooks
#73. Darkroom work had, after all, never interested me except as a means to an end; the place I wanted to be was outside in the light.
Robert Adams
#75. Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.
Thomas De Quincey
#76. Now more than ever I wish I had a cup of oblivion. But there is no mercy for the people who have left the darkness for the light. The darkness lingers until you stand naked in the light and let it fill you up, in every corner of your soul.
Poppet
#77. Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible.
Gioconda Belli
#78. Harmony will prevail. After darkness, there will be light. The light cannot come without the darkness. Better days are bound to come now.
Sook Nyul Choi
#79. Is this where the light faded out forever?
Where the cat was finally killed by caught tongue?
Where hand no longer wandered over curious texture?
Where words no longer moved past lips but died in a quiver?
Mellon Black
#80. I do have screenplays I've written that never saw the light of day, but I don't usually go back to them. When I've told a story, I want to tell another story.
Joss Whedon
#81. It's easier to have courage and trust the process when you feel you're making headway. Mastery is not persistence when you see a light at the end of the tunnel. True mastery is persistence when you don't yet see the light.
James Arthur Ray
#82. Month by month things are losing their hardness; even my body now lets the light through; my spine is soft like wax near the flame of the candle. I dream; I dream.
Virginia Woolf
#83. Just as the light of the sun, while it invigorates a living and animated body, produces effluvia in a carcass; so it is certain that the sacraments where the Spirit of faith is not present, breathes mortiferous rather than vital odour.
John Calvin
#84. a generation:
the black night gave me black eyes
still I use them to seek the light
Gu Cheng
#85. Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide.
Richard Brautigan
#86. Your heart is the light of this world. Don't cover it with your mind.
Mooji
#87. The heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility. You can only acquire right knowledge when you have learnt to esteem it. Man has certainly the right to turn his eyes to the light, but he must first acquire this right.
Rudolf Steiner
#89. With Christ, darkness cannot succeed. Darkness will not gain victory over the light of Christ.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#90. Once in their youth the light shone for them; they saw the light and followed the star, but then came reason and the mockery of the world; then came faint-heartedness and apparent failure; then came weariness and disillusionment, and so they lost their way again, they became blind again.
Hermann Hesse
#91. She raised her hand and studied the light as it fell over her, bathing everything inside the room in shadows and light. Everything except her.
Liesel Schwarz
#92. I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
Edward Steichen
#93. Breath is life. You are not the pebble washed to shore by the wave, but the fish that swims in the wave. Breathe in to fill, to draw in the light. Slow," he told her, "with awareness. Breathe out to empty. And pause, hold in that space between. Now in to fill.
J.D. Robb
#94. There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.
Helen Keller
#95. If your headlight is broken, stop travelling in the darkness! Either you travel with the light or sit tight wherever you are!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#96. I'm for turning off the tube and turning down the light, cause I'm for nothing else but me and you tonight.
Hank Williams Jr.
#97. What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too glorious for our vision.
George MacDonald
#98. O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to You!
Mother Teresa
#99. Jesus invites us to abide in his love. That means to dwell with all that I am in him. It is an invitation to a total belonging, to full intimacy, to an unlimited being-with. The light of the Spirit reveals to us that love conquers all fear.
Henri Nouwen
#100. But you still need the two: the dark and the light. You can't see one without the other.
Julia Green
