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Quotes About Light

When you see the sadness in life, be compassionate. When you see the darkness, become the light and be passionate.
~ Debasish Mridha
Love is the light and source of life, and happiness is the delight and essence of life.
~ Debasish Mridha
Knowledge is the value of a diamond but wisdom is the beauty and light it reflects.
~ Debasish Mridha
Remember that your Heart—your Truth—will never lead you astray. Let the Light of your Heart guide your way.
~ Valerie Rickel
Be comforted! If there are people who can't stand to be around you, just remember that darkness hates light and deceit hates truth.
~ Alisa Hope Wagner
The stars are reflected from within the black water in the cistern. I find comfort in the omen I glean from this: light in the darkness, truth when it seems there is none.
~ Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
Have you ever noticed how hard it is to find a shadow in the night? I guess that's why so many people are so obsessed with the idea of bringing things to the light…to the clear, so to speak.
~ Eiry Nieves, The Shadowlands
The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything.
~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Awareness is a flashlight that gives us a choice.
~ Tehya Sky
Shadows can only exist where there is light.
~ Tehya Sky
You must keep looking on the bright side, because you won't find anything in the dark.
~ Zack W. Van
I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.
~ James Turrell
Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend.
~ Lauryn Hill
If you go into a room of 100-plus people, and you want to be the prince of darkness, you can be it. But I don't operate in the dark, I operate in the light.
~ John Kasich
Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.
~ Jim Carroll
Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.
~ Edgar Degas
Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.
~ Marianne Williamson
You can't encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.
~ Earl Scruggs
I want to be where your heart is home I want to see you with the light in the morning There's never been such a beautiful warning to me, to me
~ Zooey Deschanel
Whoever wants light, should give light, so he receives his payment.
~ Samael Aun Weor
How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? Only one. But the light bulb has really got to want to change.
~ Stephen Arnott
1Let all that I am praise the LORD.     O LORD my God, how great you are!         You are robed with honor and majesty.        2You are dressed in a robe of light.     You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;
~ Stephen Arterburn
Once when they went horseback riding with other young couples, they came to a stream and all the other men helped their women across. But not Lincoln: he rode on alone and left Mary to fend for herself. She was miffed. Frankly, she thought he had terrible manners. And he was moody, too, and seemed never to have anything to say that was light and fun and tender. He never said much at all.
~ Stephen B. Oates
FRANK BIDART Song of the Mortar and Pestle The desire to approach obliteration preexists each metaphysic justifying it. Watch him fucked want to get fucked hard. Christianity allowed the flagellants light, for even Jesus found release from flesh requires mortification of the flesh. From the ends of the earth the song is, Grind me into dust.
~ Stephen Burt