Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Light

Light

All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.--Fred Rogers a.k.a. "Mister Rogers"
And I said to the one who stood at the gate of the year, "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the Unknown." And he replied, "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way."--Minnie Haskins
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.--L. E. Landon (Romance and Reality)
Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.--Ruth Carter Stapleton
Darkness can not drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dwelling in the light, there is no occasion at all for stumbling, for all things are discovered in the light.--George Fox
Even a small star shines in the darkness.--Finnish proverb
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.--Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.--Helen Keller
Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.--Dorothy Thompson
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light
Adorns and cheers our way
And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray.--Oliver Goldsmith (The Captivity)
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.--William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.--Og Mandino
If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it. Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness.--Loren Eiseley (The Night Country)
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.--Augustus Hare
Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.--Zora Neale Hurston
The Light of Lights
Looks always on the motive, not the deed,
The Shadow of Shadows on the deed alone.--William Butler Yeats (The Countess Cathleen)
The light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mankind has advanced in the footsteps of men and women of unshakable faith. Many of the great ones ... have set stars in the heavens to light others through the night.--Olga Rosmanith
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.--Sydney J. Harris
Never fear shadows. They simply mean that there's a light somewhere nearby.--Ruth E. Renkei
On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.--Buddha
Only in silence the word,
only in dark the light,
only in dying life:
bright the hawk's flight
on the empty sky.--Ursula K. LeGuin (A Wizard of Earthsea)
People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.--Joseph Pulitzer
Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.--Victor Hugo (Les Miserables)
The story teller makes no choice. Soon you will not hear his voice. His job is to shed light, and not to master. Since the end is never told, we pay the teller off in gold, in hopes he will return, but he cannot be bought or sold.--Grateful Dead ("Terrapin Station")
There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.--Edith Wharton
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.--Buddha
To rid ourselves of our shadows--who we are--we must step into either total light or total darkness.--Jeremy Preston Johnson
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest to all of us.--Meister Eckhart
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining--they just shine.--Dwight L. Moody
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.--Plato
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.--Ben Sweetland
When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied, "Only stand out of my light." Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.--John W. Gardner (Self-Renewal)
When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.--Patrick Overton
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.--Jim Rohn