Quotes about light
light lines shade
Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade. John French Sloan
light reason made
Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it. John Galsworthy
light darkness obsessed
In the beginning, we're told, was the word. Every once in a while someone shows up on the planet who is word-obsessed and word-gifted; and the light and darkness get named again. In our day, that someone is Buechner. John Ortberg
light gentle generous
Light is incredibly generous, but also gentle. John O'Donohue
light shining soul
Even though life may have moved wearily and painfully through such a person, they have still managed not to let it corrode their soul. In such a face a lovely luminosity shines out into the world. It casts a tender light that radiates a sense of wholeness and wholesomeness.
light addiction negativity
Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form ... you can transfigure negativity by turning it toward the light of your soul.
light essence heaven
Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate! John Milton
light darkness horror
This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.
light long way
Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
light hands organization
When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and an aristocratic social organization on the other, we get light on the opposition between technical scientific studies and refining literary studies. We have before us the need of overcoming this separation in education if society is to be truly democratic. John Dewey
light use world
In the present state of the world, it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity, etc., without having first secured control of our use of ourselves is a perilous affair. Without the control of our use of ourselves, our use of other things is blind; it may lead to anything.
light speed speed-of-light
The speed of light sucks. John Carmack
light choices age
As we age, the bright light of youth either burns out or burns stronger - it's our choice. John Avery
light burning use
For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes. Joan Miro
light people finite
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
light building seems
More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building. Frank Lloyd Wright
light sprung-up secret
It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has rested in millions of breasts and that has found a tabernacle and worshippers even in the desert - it seems that the triumphant Host of Lourdes and the Eucharistic Congresses of Chicago and Carthage remains as unknown, as secret as when it appeared for the first time in a room in Jerusalem. Light is in the world as in the days of St. John the Baptist, and the world does not know it Francois Mauriac
light pieces
All the pieces are in place. There's light at the end of the tunnel.
light preserved raise restore salvation servant thee thou tribes unto
And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
light shining desire
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. Edward T. Hall
light creative matter
A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought. Edith Hamilton
light people important
I sometimes say to people, "I am a window frame - no more. The window frame is not that important. What is important is the light that comes through the window. Eckhart Tolle
light darkness want
The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.
light suffering world
You are the light of the world. You are the consciousness that illuminates the world. Know yourself as that, and that's freedom, liberation, awakening, the end of suffering and madness. And it's happening right here.
light market pass recently sold
The market has sold off so much recently that a little consolidation in light of the coupon pass isn't necessarily surprising.
lightning strikes steppenwolf
A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes. Hermann Hesse
light age gone
They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here. Henry Vaughan
light shadow body
...for human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.. Jose Saramago
light bread may
We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it. Jose Marti
light alcohol drug
A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found. Joni Mitchell
light sun gone
The sun is gone, but I have a light. Kurt Cobain
light quality energy
Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort of light coming from within her that was overwhelming. Kevyn Aucoin
light reason riders
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. Jonathan Swift