The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“We want to discover who we are without the burden of sight. It's easy to believe we are the same inside because… — Sara Grant Copy Share Image
Letting the last breath come. Letting the last breath go. Dissolving, dissolving into vast space, the light body released from its heavier… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Suddenly Faramir stirred, and he opened his eyes, and he looked on Aragorn who bent over him; and a light of knowledge… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
If we desire to end our days in joy and comfort, let us lay the foundation of a comfortable death now betimes.… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
The dark is settling in. The sky glows yellow- pale- anemic from the city lights. The Tenderloin at night is a real… — Nic Sheff Copy Share Image
“Contrasts The windows of my poetry are wide open on the boulevards and in the shop windows Shine The precious stones of… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
We've turned off all the lights in the living room to make hand shadows. We've got this big flashlight aimed at the… — Sonya Sones Copy Share Image
Be content to love, to dazzle in the light, If only for moments… And then be gone, With gladness in your heart,… — Scott Hastie Copy Share Image
Maybe the yogi is a parent who's a little more patient with their child, or a more compassionate coworker, or an understanding… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover’s kisses, and melted on her cheeks. At the center of the garden, beside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always just read the play and find a world. That world must honour the play, enhance it, and maybe shine some… — David Farr Copy Share Image
The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on the lights,… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“Inner healing involves moving from darkness to the light. "Light" is a word that has different meanings yet is generally understood as… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
[The photographer's task] is to describe the existing light... Chances are, if you believe the light, you're going to believe that the… — Henry Wessel, Jr Copy Share Image
Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light… — Simone Schwarz-Bart Copy Share Image
To make every little thing special is to grant a magical quality to your life. Once your life becomes charmed in such… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Meditation is existence. When we meditate, all we are simply doing is letting go and allowing ourselves to dissolve back into that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Well, basically there are two sorts of opera," said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“His classes... had committed mutiny. The simplest, most innocent concepts turned overnight into enemies, capable of triggering full system shutdown. Light is… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Before we left, Grandmother talked a lot about the arctic night we would fly through. 'Isn't it a mystical word, "arctic"? Pure… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
I don't see any sign of God in this world, in the place where we live and things we know. It can… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The immensity of the universe didn’t suddenly change, but our ability to see and understand this truth changed dramatically. And with that… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
And this, really, is the story-within-the-story, because if you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger, and that love can… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
As God illumines all people equally with the light of the sun, so do those who desire to imitate God let shine… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
“I think it’s imperative that we continue confusing light with meaning. That’s how the human race evolves. Someone sees a light, names… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
Through the miracle of natural genetic recombination, each child, with the sole exception of an identical twin, is conceived as a unique… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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