Light Quotes - Page 196

Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.

Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of growth and collapse, twine and coil, release and fade. Close your eyes and music paints light vines and calligraphy on the darkness within you.

Then she declared loudly, "Smoke break!" and everyone's eyes came to us, some of them shocked seeing as these days you could light up a doobie and no one would blink but if you lit up a smoke, you courted being publicly stoned to death.

You are amazing. A true light warrior and this world certainly needs you.

Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love guide you It can turn blackest night into day.

Walking in the light means we pursue obedience and are honest about our remaining darkness.

There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

I normally shun the spotlight, but I don't mind being the platform.

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution, and placed later researches in their proper light. A division of the (disc-shaped) embryo into an animal and a plastic part first takes place. In the lower part (the plastic or vegetative layer) are a serous and a vascular layer, each of peculiar organization. In the upper part also (the animal or serous germ-layer) two layers are clearly distinguishable, a flesh-layer and a skin-layer. (1828)

I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.

All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.

Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.

I'm looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.

At last there is light at the end of the tunnel.

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan's lurking places have already been found out.

[Christ] does not give [men] light but from moment to moment; the instant He withdraws, all is darkness.... God does not give them a stock of holiness.