Anthology of Light

Quotes on Light

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.
Spike Milligan

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
~Ben Sweetland

Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.
~Michael Strassfeld

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.
~Mary Dunbar

There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
~Edith Wharton

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
~Maori Proverb

When you possess light within, you see it externally.
~Anaïs Nin

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. ~Norman B. Rice

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
~John Muir

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home. ~Author Unknown

His high endeavors are an inward light
That makes the path before him always bright.
~William Wordsworth

When my heart is heavy, the sun helps make it light.
~Astrid Alauda

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is not consolation. It is light.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

I used to love the darkness
But the sun is my new best friend
As soon as I embraced him
He put my misery to an end.
~Abbe Yeux-verdi

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections. ~Peace Pilgrim

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light. ~Earl Nightingale

Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
~Benjamin Franklin

Sunshine surrounds the earth as love surrounds our souls.
~Amethyst Snow-Rivers

There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.
~N.P. Willis

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
~Terry Pratchett

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
~Matthew Arnold

I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
~Og Mandino

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
~Kahlil Gibran

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
~Jean Giraudoux

How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
~Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.
~Henry David Thoreau

God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
Jim Rohn

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”
Buddha

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.”
Jim Rohn

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Star Light, Star Bright First star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might Have the wish I wish tonight.

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
Irish Blessings

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Napoleon Hill

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.
Mohandas Gandhi

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren Buffett

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo da Vinci

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
Earl Nightingale

As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
Marianne Williamson

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Blaise Pascal

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee

What is to give light must endure burning.
Viktor E. Frankl

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
Dwight L. Moody

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Francis Bacon

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore

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