Light Quotes - Page 149

No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope.

If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

When I was on acid, I would see things like beams of light and I would hear sounds that sounded an awful lot like car horns.

'Eveything is made of light,' he said, 'and the space between isn't empty.'

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

I want to be a top-flight football player, so I lead the life that enables me to be that type of player. I prefer to be seen in a decent light rather than an indecent one.

A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.

If honesty was like water that people couldn't live without it, the world which became heavier due to the endless lies would be just light like a feather!

Joke I read somewhere: They say that God is the innermost dweller of all. Well I hope He likes enchiladas - cause that's what He's getting! Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.

When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor does he consist of things. He is no longer He or She, a dot in the world grid of space and time, nor a condition to be experienced and described, a loose bundle of named qualities. Neighborless and seamless, he is Thou and fills the firmament. Not as if there were nothing but he; but everything else lives in his light.

I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

The Real You isn't damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe.

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

However, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders it more demanding. He ends up making his mistress live like those prisoners on whom light is shone day and night in order for them to be better watched. And things always end in tragedy.

Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

At times the whole sky was ringed in shooting points and puckers of light gathering and falling, pulsing, fading, rhythmical as breathing. All of a piece. As if the sky were a pattern of nerves and our thought and memories traveled across it. As if the sky were one gigantic memory for us all.

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.

where is the 'punch' in sweetness and light?