Light Quotes - Page 4

• When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.

  Tecumseh

  Thankful, Gratitude, Morning

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• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Faith

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.585, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Pain, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “The Best Read Naturalist": Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, University of Virginia Press

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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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• When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

  Edward Teller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Seven Steps to Starting and Running an Editorial Consulting Business" by Jane M. Frutchey, (p. 121), 2002.

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• Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

  Douglas Coupland

  Failure, Sometimes, Power Failure

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• If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion.

  Robert Reynolds

  Spiritual, Passion, Heart

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• Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.

  Max Planck

  Intelligent, Curves, Goal

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• He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Stars, Giving

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.184, Penguin

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• God and Nature met in light.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mets, God And Nature

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.199, Cambridge University Press

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• The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Real, Black

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.44, Anchor

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• Love is not consolation, it is light.

  Simone Weil

  Love, Life, Consolation

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.14, Psychology Press

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• The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Darkness, Sunlight, Darkness To Light

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• Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.

  Paul Klee

  Circles, Oval, Form

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.98, Parkstone International

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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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• Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.

  William Gurnall

  World, Sun, Compare

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.566

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• Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Pain, Powerful, Disappointment

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• I hear beyond the range of sound,
  I see beyond the range of sight,
  New earths and skies and seas around,
  And in my day the sun doth pale his light.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sight, Sea, Sky

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.151, Penguin

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• There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

  Carl Jung

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Emotional

  "Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype". Lecture by Carl Jung, 1938.

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• Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Stars, Military, Goal

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• When you look ahead and darkness is all you see, faith and determination will pull you through.

  Drake

  Inspirational, Faith, Determination

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• The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Cities, Glasses

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.197

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• You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Inspirational, Dark, Sticks

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

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• One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Long Distance Relationship, Movement, Long Road

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• Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Romantic, Soulmate

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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