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Quotes About Light

I keep some portion of my early gleam; Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river, It lights my life, a far illusive dream, Moves as I move, and leads me on forever.
~ John Townsend Trowbridge
Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.
~ William Kennedy, Roscoe
When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.
~ Shakti Gawain
Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light. But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone.
~ Colin Bateman, Mystery Man
When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
~ Garrett Hedlund
Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness, O be Thou our aid.
~ Laurence Housman
O dearer far than light and life are dear.
~ William Wordsworth
In the end, we are not the roles we play. We are the light that animates every soul in the dance we call life.
~ Alan Cohen
Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.
~ Albert Schweitzer
I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.
~ Amy Seimetz
If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eyes begin to adjust to the darkness.
~ Arthur Golden
First of all, you have to meet God with light! I do not believe that any man, that any man can solve the problems of life without Jesus Christ.
~ Billy Graham
I loved Bonny, and I always prayed that God would sneak in there and get a little light in her life.
~ Bonnie Lee Bakley
Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Wake! For the Sun who scatter'd into flightThe Stars before him from the Field of night,Drives Night along with them from Heav'n and strikesThe Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light.
~ Edward Fitzgerald
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of NightHas flung the Stone that puts the Stars to flight:And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caughtThe Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.
~ Edward Fitzgerald
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.
~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Grant that when this day concludes and the Earth turns slowly outward to gaze into the night of space, I may bring a harvest of light and love as my gift to you.
~ Edward Hays
Lord, crown our faith's endeavor with beauty and with grace, till, clothed in light forever, we see thee face to face: a joy no language measures; a fountain brimming o'er; an endless flow of pleasures; an ocean without shore.
~ EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH
Around us even as its colorful weather moves us, Even as it pulls us into its dusty, twilit pockets. And every year there is a brief, startling moment When we pause in the middle of a long walk home and Suddenly feel something invisible and weightless Touching our shoulders, sweeping down from the air: It is the autumn wind pressing against our bodies; It is the changing light of fall falling on us. ""Fall
~ Edward Hirsch
And every year there is a brief, startling moment When we pause in the middle of a long walk home and Suddenly feel something invisible and weightless Touching our shoulders, sweeping down from the air: It is the autumn wind pressing against our bodies; It is the changing light of fall falling on us.
~ Edward Hirsch
As you know so well, the passage of time never really heals the tragic memory of such a great loss, but we carry on, because we have to, because our loved one would want us to, and because there is still light to guide us in the world from the love they gave us.
~ Edward Kennedy
The elflocks of the crowd were every color of the rainbow, as was the light from their eyes that shone through the mask of the Arkadian winter night. Some of them had wings, but not gauzy gossamer tattooist fabulosities. The wing'd ones among them bore twin sails at their backs, reptilian bat bones folded and hooded just above their heads in taloned, Gothic arches of epidermis.
~ Edward Morris