Quotes about light
Karen Salmansohn -
Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
Jose Andres -
For food to be romantic, it should be light. Too many times people plan a romantic meal, and the food is too heavy.
Hugh Grant -
As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.
Will Poulter -
Kissing scenes are never romantic or sexy. They're actually super technical, like, 'Move your head; you're blocking her light,' or, 'Stop looking like an idiot when you kiss her.'
William Cartwright -
There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.
Taylor Swift -
Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
Henry Ian Cusick -
I like romantic comedies, as it is a fun and light thing to get involved with.
Mahmoud Darwish -
I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
Robert Penn Warren -
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
Felix Adler -
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
Alice Oswald -
If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything.
Chris Cornell -
And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.
William Butler Yeats -
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
Jason Robert Brown -
Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.
Jeff Bezos -
The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
Brock Yates -
Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.
Christopher Buckley -
How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to change the light bulb, and one to reminisce about how good the old one was.
Jose Marti -
Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
Reba McEntire -
The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.
Martha Beck -
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to.
Debbie Ford -
Anger, if used properly, might be for a cause, like helping feed children or stopping abuse somewhere. When we understand that every quality has importance and value, then we open up to this. Shining a light on these shadow qualities gives it balance.
Douglas Coupland -
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
Tom Robbins -
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.
Tori Amos -
Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
It is not enough that light shines on you it must shine on others too! It is not enough that you are happy others must be happy too!
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Light has a battery life darkness has none! Light is finite darkness is infinite!
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Darkness has the ability to cover up light has the ability to uncover! Darkness is the enemy of truth light is the friend of truth!
Og Mandino -
I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul.
Rawi Hage - Carnival
God created each one of us with a light inside. I’ve had sex with all kinds of people every single person has a kind of beam inside that shines once they are touched properly.
Paulo Coelho - Warrior of the Light
A Warrior of the Light does not waste his time listening to provocations he has a destiny to fulfill.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
There are two kinds of spirit either light or darkness.
C. JoyBell C. -
Remember that light becomes evident in darkness. We do not create light by avoiding those who are captives of darkness but we become light by illuminating the night. Remember that always.
Richard L. Ratliff -
I am daily learning To be the reluctant guardian of your memoriesThere was light in those eyes I miss that
Paulo Coelho - Warrior of the Light
A warrior of the Light is never in a hurry.Time works in his favor he learns to master his impatience and avoids acting without thinking.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Master Plato once said that Lux est umbra Dei light is the shadow of God. I say this way: Light is the god of shadow!
Douglas Steer -
Mind the Light come under Holy Obedience. pg.33 in Prayer and Worship
Unknown -
I'm not interested in whether you've stood with the great I'm interested in whether you've sat with the broken.
Sampada Mohite -
if you are different and alone it doesn't mean you wont see a moonlight there is a sunrise for everyone and everyday.
A.P. Sweet - but dreaming
And I would give my self to this light just to have my brother and mother by each other’s side. I would swim back to the ocean and birth a creature of acceptance I would if it let me. I would give it all away.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Always look in the direction of sun and stars the sacred light of life.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
It is not enough to protect the source of the light the paths of the light must be protected as well so that either we may reach the light or the light may reach us!
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Even in the middle of a hopeless darkness a light may suddenly reach you keep your hope tightly and this great hope of yours will strongly attract the light onto you!
Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
I give myself up to darkness and wish I may never again be required to lift my head to the light.
Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Watchwords
Shadows of doubt will always fall behind you when you keep your face towards the sunshine. Believe in God face the brighter light and cast behind the dark shadows!
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Creating light is a wiz sharing that light is witty and protecting that light is a great honour!
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
Open your eyes wide and see yourself breaking new territories... Believe what you see arise and shine beyond all challenges. Shine the brighter light in you!
Israelmore Ayivor - Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Don’t dim the light in you. Make your corner bright. Fight a good fight with all your might. Wake up and dare to win never fear because of what others might say. You’ll overcome!
Katy Tackes - Each Time She Wakes
Fear nothing the Spirit of Love will give you wings.
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Millions of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the lifespan of that single candle will never be shortened! Feel free to share your success stories with every loved one out there it will strengthen them but will never weaken you in any way.
John Gould Fletcher - Irradiations; Sand and Spray
As I went through the city by dayI saw shadows in sunlightBut in the night I saw everywhereStars within the darkness.
J.W. Lord -
Stars are God’s way of showing us that light can survive the darkness and shine through – that there is hope even in dark times. That the darkness isn’t all there is.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Some people aren’t really light-teethed they’re merely dark-skinned.
Steve Goodier -
Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine every dark night will finally fade into dawn.
Amy Leach - Things That Are
All bodies are radiant but not all radiance is visible: stars radiate visible light planets and donkeys and couches radiate infrared waves. (If your couch is emitting visible light GET UP IMMEDIATELY!)
Glenda Millard - A Small Free Kiss in the Dark
He was like a shattered stained-glass window: something beautiful that's broken a million colours fallen on the ground where no light can get through.
Emily Dickinson - The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawnIndicative that suns go downThe notice to the startled grassThat darkness is about to pass.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
The Lord lit my life with the light of your love.
Dejan Stojanovic - Circling: 1978-1987
You are not what you are You are darkness Looking for light within.
Domenico Dolce -
My mum was very conscious about fashion, and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer. And jeans.
Jean Baudrillard -
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
Ellen Key -
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
Osho - Dang Dang Doko Dang
Zen is a path of liberation. It liberates you. It is freedom from the first step to the last. You are not required to follow any rules you are required to find out your own rules and your own life in the light of awareness.
Thomas Jane -
It would be a sign of society changing if we did finally legalize prostitution. Once it's legal, it doesn't mean your daughter's going to run out and be a ho. The more we sort of bring these things into the light, you bring these hidden vices into the light, the less power they have over our society. You make it legal, it tends to go away.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
There two kinds of spirit either light or darkness.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Light and love redeem the soul and resurrect the spirit.
Roy T. Bennett - The Light in the Heart
Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see it is what gives life its deepest significance.
Roy T. Bennett -
Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.
Latika Teotia -
May God show light to those who are groping in the dark not knowing which direction to take and in the process hurting others- knowingly or unknowingly. A single humble candle can defeat even the most stubborn darkness an enlightened person can clear the cobwebs of even the most confused mind. May God enlighten everyone- especially those that hurt others.
Walt Whitman -
Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us shedding light over this world can alone help us.
Armaan Malik -
There are many people who are behind whatever I've achieved so far. My dad, Daboo Malik, is my mentor and guiding light who supported and influenced me. Without him, I wouldn't have been able to be what I am today. Besides him, Salman Khan is yet another important person who is my biggest and constant inspiration.
David Eisenhower -
Granddad offered me one hundred dollars if I would cut my mop of curly hair into a neat military style. Just before the wedding, I got a light trim. It wasn't enough for Granddad, and he didn't pay.
Robert Green Ingersoll -
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Richard M. Nixon -
The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.
Fred Upton -
Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.
Leland Stanford -
The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.
Charles de Leusse -
Stars are cracks of light for night than pierces the heart. (Étoiles sont fissures de lumière - De la nuit que transperce le cœur.)
Diane Hall -
If we are serious about dreaming our awakening into being and creating a peaceful, loving earth in which the heart, spirit and soul are the only true leaders, we must continue to keep our focus on thoughts of unity and all that truly brings us together.
Billy Crystal -
Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm. His power toppled the mightiest of foes, and his intense light shined on America, and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self realization, courage, laughter, love, joy and religious freedom for all.
Coventry Patmore -
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.
Tom Brokaw -
The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory.
Maya Angelou -
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!
Leonardo da Vinci -
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
James Russell Lowell -
Light is the symbol of truth.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton -
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
Michelangelo -
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
William Shakespeare -
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
Marc Newson -
So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.
Douglas Trumbull -
My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.
Claire Tomalin -
I always try to travel light.
Kyle MacLachlan -
I try to travel as light as possible to avoid baggage issues. Los Angeles airport is notorious for baggage delays, so I'll often FedEx a suitcase ahead or back so I don't need to stand around; it also minimises problems at check-in.
Marie Helvin -
If I'm on holiday, I travel light, but if it is a work trip, I take everything but the kitchen sink.
Marvin Ammori -
Data can generally travel the speed of light unless networks are congested. When there's congestion, usually the cheapest and best thing is simply to add capacity generally, not to prioritize certain sites over others.
Rogier van der Heide -
There is actually a physical connection between light and our health and wellbeing.
Cesare Pavese -
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Sarah Parcak -
Satellites record data in different parts of the light spectrum that we can't see. And it's that information that allows satellites to be so powerful in terms of looking at things like vegetation health, finding different kinds of geology that may indicate an oil deposit or some kind of mineralogical deposit that can be mined.
Lisa Randall -
Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.
Ragnar Frisch -
A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.