Quotes about light
light heartache mind
I forgot that love existed, troubled in my mind. Heartache after heartache, worried all the time. I forgot that love existed Then I saw the light Everyone around me make everything alright. Van Morrison
light darkness shadow
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow. Ursula K. Le Guin
light world forgotten
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
light shadow balance
The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
light ideas done
It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
light shadow doe
Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?
light choices-made may
Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
light darkness sunlight
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
light hands darkness
The light is the left hand of darkness
light poetry may
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. Robert Penn Warren
light justice patriotism
True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice. Robert McAfee Brown
light differences use
Nature has put itself the problem how to catch in flight light streaming to the earth and to store the most elusive of all powers in rigid form. To achieve this aim, it has covered the crust of earth with organisms which in their life processes absorb the light of the sun and use this power to produce a continuously accumulating chemical difference. ... The plants take in one form of power, light; and produce another power, chemical difference. Robert Mayer
light action heat
My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation.
light dimwits
In like a dimwit, out like a light. Walt Kelly
light air knees
Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. [. . . ] You begin to get weak in the knees. Your head's in a whirl. And then you feel light as a feather, and before you know it, you're walking on air. And then you know what? You're knocked for a loop, and you completely lose your head! Walt Disney
light media world
Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world. Vinton Cerf
light world vices
Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us. Walt Whitman
light long healthy
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.
light stressed-out church
When I'm really stressed out, I go to church. I light candles and sit and pray. And I'll ask myself, What's the lesson? Why am I going through this? There's got to be a reason I'm here. What am I supposed to learn? Sandra Lee
light shadow emotion
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve. Roland Barthes
light shining darkness
But that's not to say that the potential for the sun to shine doesn't exist. You know? Walk down the path towards the light, rather than walk into the darkness. Roger Waters
light water rose
The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit it, and by its little light saw that the rose floating in the bowl was dying. It had already lost most of its petals, which floated on the water like tiny, un-seaworthy boats, deserted for safer craft. "Dear God," I said. "I must go back at once. Robin McKinley
light coins world
For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present scientific lights), in a world we never made, should stand better than random, or coin-tossing chances changes of coming out right when we predict by inductions. . . . Willard Van Orman Quine
light perception helping
Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors.
light understanding divine
All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself. Saint Augustine
light environmental care
Do not, as is usually the case, thrust the care of the common weal upon your neighbor; then, as each one in his own thoughts makes light of the matter, all find to their surprise that they have drawn upon themselves by their neglect a personal misfortune. Saint Basil
light vegetarianism meals
The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts...
light sun rays
Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God. Saint Francis de Sales
light suffering doe
A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering.
light soul needs
For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.
light wind errors
Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?
light sensual mind
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
light hunger-and-thirst ancient
Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new. Late have I loved you. You have called to me, and have called out, and have shattered my deafness. You have blazed forth with light and have put my blindness to flight! You have sent forth fragrance, and I have drawn in my breath, and I pant after you. I have tasted you, and I hunger and thirst after you. You have touched me, and I have burned for your peace.