Lamps Quotes

• Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Darkness

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.154, Vintage

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• If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

  Gautama Buddha

  Truth, Buddhism, Helping Others

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• Lamps are different, but light is the same.

  Rumi

  Light, Unity, Different

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• Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Darkness

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2009). “Becoming Enlightened”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.

  Paulo Coelho

  Beauty, Eye, Doors

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• We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us.

  Catherine McAuley

  Light, Giving, Shining

  Catherine McAuley (2017). “A Shining Lamp: The Oral Instructions of Catherine McAuley”, p.8, CUA Press

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• Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

  Tertullian

  Patience, Hope, Lit

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• All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.

  Kabir

  Heart, Darkness, Saws

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• The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things.

  Rumi

  Light, Mind, Energy

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.112, Shambhala Publications

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• Be lamps unto yourselves; be your own confidence. Hold truth within yourselves.

  Gautama Buddha

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• I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Art, Pieces, Rooms

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• Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

  Edgar Degas

  Photography, Atmosphere, Daylight

  Edgar Degas, Jean Sutherland Boggs (1988). “Degas [exposition]”, p.535, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Motherhood, Burning Heart

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• To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Friendship, Faith, Inspiration

  1975 In Time, 29 Dec.

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• Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Confidence, Yoga, Yoga And Life

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

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Death, Rest In Peace

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• A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

  Andres Segovia

  Patience, Men, Oil

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• Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.

  Antonio Porchia

  Night, Light, Self

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• Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.

  Rumi

  Ladders, Lifeboats

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• Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?

  Michel Foucault

  Art, House, Should

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• Listening is a lamp that dispels the darkness of ignorance.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Ignorance, Darkness, Listening

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2002). “Understanding the Mind: Lorig, an Explanation of the Nature and Functions of the Mind”, p.207, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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

  Edith Wharton

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

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• Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Light, Bears

  "Céline à Meudon : transcriptions des entretiens avec Jacques d'Arribehaude et Jean Guenot" by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Éditions Jean Guenot, 1995.

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• I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

  Patrick Henry

  Feet, Aladdin's Lamp

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

  Ovid

  Reality, Oil, Clean

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