Light Quotes - Page 12

Be a light unto yourself.

Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.

A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.

I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.

Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.

There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering.

In the twilight of the morning, all life silently waits for the sunrise. Sun must rise for the darkness to sink!

There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our interconnectedness - it is a precursor to deep love. So in this quickening light, with the dawn of each new day, let us look for love. Let us no longer struggle. Let us ever become who we most want to be. As we begin to be who we truly are, the world will be a better place.

I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light, but also a creature that questions the definitions of light and dark and gives them new meanings.

Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color. Some people’s flames are so still they don’t even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you can’t look at them without blinking, and if you approach you shine in the fire.

I'm going to drink a Coor's Light, cause Bud Light don't pay me nothin'.

The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on your path, so that you may never experience the humility that the power of the American government has reduced me to. This is the wish of a man who, in his native forests, was once as proud and bold as yourself.

You can remain in the world for any number of years, but don't let the world take hold. Don't let the world take hold of the inside world. There is the example of the lotus. It stays deep down in the mud. It comes up to the light, and it can't stay without water because it would die. But it does not get mixed up either with the mud or the water. You have seen the lotus; even if the water comes it just goes off again. Now, when they talk of God, they always say 'the lotus eyes, the lotus feet' because of this inner significance.

Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth.... The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots.... When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earth's light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquiose, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear.

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.

If we make God our heart's delight, we shall have our heart's desire.