Quotes
Quotes about Light
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. [Lat., Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.]
There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.
There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.
As quick as lightning, in the breach Just in the place where honour's lodged, As wise philosophers have judged, Because a kick in that place more Hurts honour than deep wounds before.
Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind!
But thou, O hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whisper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail!
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.
A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.
A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. 'Hear that?' you say, 'That's dynamite, baby.'
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.
The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken, The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.
'Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom Of himn gave fire to it.
Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. [Psalm 119:105].
For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.
We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.
As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
If wisdom were offered me with the provision that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.
