Light Quotes

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Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity… — Emile M. Cioran
...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and sisters. Up until… — Henri Nouwen
Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances. — Vincent de Paul
Send the light of your own loving ahead of you. When you get there, the loving will have prepared a place for you. Be kind,… — Peter McWilliams
It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. — Edith Widder
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly… — Robert Ballard
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a… — Henry David Thoreau
When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities. — Adolf Hitler
It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness… — Alicia Silverstone
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others. — Leonardo da Vinci
All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making… — Max Beerbohm
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light. — Benjamin Franklin
Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change. — Friedrich Nietzsche
[The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so… — Martin Luther
Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou went by. — George Linley
And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best… — Abraham Lincoln

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