Light Quotes

• In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

  Aaron Rose

  Positive Thinking, Right Time, Extraordinary

  "The Reader's Digest", Volume 152, January 1998.

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• Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Moving On

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.58, Random House

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• I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.

  Trent Parke

  Photography, Forever, Magic

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• Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Beauty

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

  Hans Hofmann

  Color, Energy, Light And Color

  "Readings in American Art, 1900-1975". Book by Barbara Rose, p. 117, 1975.

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  Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Life, Positivity, Clouds

  Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy (2013). “Little Women: An Annotated Edition”, p.602, Harvard University Press

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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 light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Believe In Yourself

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• There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Heart, Dark, Men

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• Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspiring, Happiness, Happy

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• Be a light unto yourself.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist

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• Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Photographer, Photograph

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• It is in the darkness that one finds the light.

  Meister Eckhart

  Grief, Darkness

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• To love beauty is to see light.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Spiritual, Imperfect

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.81, Wildside Press LLC

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  Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

  Desmond Tutu

  Hope, Darkness, Able

  "The Priest". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. March 4, 2010.

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• Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Looks, Saws

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• Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Seeking

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.154

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• Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Integrity, Selfish, Creativity

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Science, Night

  "Epitaph: Intended for Sir Isaac Newton" l. 1 (1730) See Squire 1

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• Each one prays to God according to his own light.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Faith, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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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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• In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

  Blaise Pascal

  Life, Faith, Christian

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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• 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

  Sunset, Shining, Sunrise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.57, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Light tomorrow with today!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.494, Delphi Classics

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• When you possess light within, you see it externally.

  Anais Nin

  Beauty, Within You, Light Within

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