Though my soul may set in darkness, It will rise in perfect light, I have loved the stars too fondly To be fearful of the night.
Sarah Williams
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?
Maurice Freehill
You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.
Antonio Porchia
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber
Let your light shine. Shine within so you can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.
Oprah Winfrey
Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Light is the first of the painters. There is no object so foul, that intense light will not make it beautiful.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purified, integrated mind, so perfected in its own understanding, lives in close communion with the soul radiance so that light becomes the constant companion of the mind.
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Moonlight is sculpture.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it’s warm and you won’t see the dust on the floor.
Irish Proverb
But in the end all religions tend to point to the same light. In between the light and us, sometimes there are too many rules.
Paulo Coelho
We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland
Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill
Light is the symbol of truth.
James Russell Lowell
Live in rooms full of light.
Cornelius Celsus
Light is a living spirit the most sublime lesson that the sun gives us is his love for all creatures.
Omraam Aivanhov
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino
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
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb
Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
Norman B. Rice
When you possess light within, you see it externally.
Anaïs Nin
Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom. Aretaeus
There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
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
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
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
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C.S. Lewis
Love is not consolation. It is light.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Maori Proverb
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
The hero is the 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. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
Felix Adler
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir
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.
When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly.
Patrick Overton
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
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Annie Dillard
In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a “child of darkness” who is equal and complementary to the more obvious “child of light.”
Laurens van der Post
Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.
Henry David Thoreau
The sun is nature’s Prozac.
Astrid Alauda
The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.
John Greenleaf Whittier
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Robert Alden
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…
Susan Polis Shutz
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
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Aaron Rose
I ran up the door, closed the stairs, said my pajamas and put on my prayers, turned off the bed and hopped in the light, all because you kissed me goodnight.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
Blaise Pascal
What more pleasant sensation
than sunshine on skin,
Spirit and flesh drinking in the light
Of God and energy itself.
Emme Woodhull-Bäche
A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you’re at home.
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we’ll need no other light.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa
His high endeavors are an inward light
That makes the path before him always bright.
William Wordsworth
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
Charles Simic
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, “Let there be light!” And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
Ellen DeGeneres
Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
Light is good from whatever lamp it shines.
When my heart is heavy, the sun helps make it light.
Astrid Alauda
Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft.
Sven Nykvist
They may as well have called the sun a ball of flaming joy.
Star Richés
You must enshrine in your hearts the spiritual urge towards light and love, Wisdom and Bliss!
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
I’m not a doctor and I don’t know the technical terminology, but I do know that sunshine activates our happiness glands.
Jessi Lane Adams
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.
A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways – by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.
Plato
You must be strong now. You must never give up. And when people make you cry and you are afraid of the dark, don’t forget the light is always there.
You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Arlo Guthrie