Quotes About Light

A veces de noche, enciendo la luz para no ver mi propia oscuridad.

A person who burns from inside like the sun or a lamp can be a guiding light into others life and its luminous flux decides as how much a preacher's life is right; and the people who can't or don't, seem bright only to those who have mere eyesight without a vision inside but just a minuscule glare.

HOPE is House Of Positive Energy

Waking up to the ground realities of life is like rising up earlier than others in the wee hours of the day only to find the darkness all around with a ray of hope in the form of light coming from the stars & the moon in the sky.

The stars in their infinite peace seemed to pour their healing light into me. I thought of captives in prison, the sick and the suffering from the beginning of time who had looked to these stars for strength. What was my little sorrow to the centuries of pain which those stars had watched? So near they seemed, so compassionate. My bitter hurt seemed to grow small and drop away. If I must go on alone, I should still have silence and the high stars to walk with me.

Il est grand temps de rallumer les étoiles

Proverbs are the lamps to words.

You whom the soldiers beat, You who are all but dead, How the gods love you And I, alone in the dark, I was promised the light.

Dark should torch of Truth be never, For it burns with love divine. Light it should all people, nations, In our hearts should be its shrine.

Oh, so soon we'd tire of sunshine, If there were never night.

The more grievous the world, the more we need to remember the luminous beauty at the center of life.

People are not alone in making art. Even the smallest animals can create things of beauty. Even the smallest animals have power and can help set things right in the world. Beautiful things are being made all the time and can still work great wonders. A tiny web of silk, a small jar of earth, can hold a glowing ember of the sun to help light the world.

Ring the bells that still can ring; forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in.

The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

Arnold Weinstein

Kijk,' zegt hij, 'kijk hoe mooi het hier is. Nergens een mens te bespeuren. Alleen maar zand. Dat is mooi. Een wereld zonder mensen, dat is schoonheid. Duisternis is de mens, niets dan dat, het epicentrum van duisternis, en het enige licht dat van hem komt, is het licht van het beest.

I don't believe in omens or fear Forebodings. I flee from neither slander Nor from poison. Death does not exist. Everyone's immortal. Everything is too. No point in fearing death at seventeen, Or seventy. There's only here and now, and light; Neither death, nor darkness, exists. We're all already on the seashore; I'm one of those who'll be hauling in the nets When a shoal of immortality swims by. from "Life, Life

If Jesus is the revelation of the essential power and life of God, then men cannot do violence to one another for their own self-expansion within the area of his Lordship. So far as they do this, they are exercising a powerfulness that contradicts the power of God. They have turned from light to darkness.

Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long glinting dragon-flies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.

The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.

One of the tenets in Quaker meditation is that you 'go inside to greet the light.' I am interested in this light that's inside greeting the light that's outside.

When you're able to shoot in Europe and internationally, those locations don't lie. The feeling doesn't lie, the quality of the light. You can always tell when it's shot in London.