Light Of My Life Quotes

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Inspirational, Life

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

Life, Motivational, Dance

Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.52, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Helen Keller

Love, Sympathy, Death

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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Darkness will never take me... because I have you. Light of my life, Marissa. That's what you are." -Butch and Marissa

J.R. Ward

Light, Darkness, Take Me

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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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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It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Spiritual, Yoga, Health

"The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity". Book by Mark Vonnegut, 1975.

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Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson

Confidence, Fear, Light

A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Kings, Hate, Light

"A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

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Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Walker

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Miller

Life, Happiness, Success

Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.2, New Directions Publishing

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Best things in life aren't things.

Mike Ness

Inspirational, Family, Happiness

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Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.

Vladimir Nabokov

Fire, Light, Soul

Lolita pt. 1, ch. 1 (1955)

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Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James Dean

Life, Change, Positive

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Lily Tomlin

Inspirational, Funny, Meaningful

Quoted in People, 26 Dec. 1977. Although now associated with Tomlin, this saying appears anonymously in Robert Reisner, Graffiti (1971), in the form "Remember, even if you win the rat race - you're still a rat." Rosalie Maggio, in New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, states that William Sloane Coffin said "Even if you win the rat-race, you're still a rat" as a chaplain at Williams College or Yale University in the 1950s or 1960s.

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Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Will Durant

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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