Quotes About Light

One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.

Stepping lightly, just like a ballerina.

Unendo le loro giovinezze, amandosi, Ugo e Gesuina hanno rotto i ponti con tutta una parte del loro passato che li aveva attardati in emozioni precarie, in avventure innaturali ove anche i loro sentimenti si erano smarriti e adulterati. E se l'amore è il fondersi di due pianeti che si cercavano nello spazio del giorno della Creazione, essi formano adesso un'unica luce.

Life, dreams, thoughts. Formless and endless. A billion years before our birth. A billion years after it. And in the middle, for a single moment, to see only one person, feeling everything else covered in a white light.

She carried a thousand lights inside her heart, and a thousand lights carried her.

Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand? Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light. There you go . . . That was easy!

Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!

when ever you read a good book somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light

Anu is an acquired taste," I say lightly. Laronda widens her eyes and rolls them. "Sweet lord, yes! Roadkill with horseradish!

It's almost a relief, not having to stare at the sun.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith. Fear is. Fear will not risk that even if I am wrong, I will trust that if I move today by the light that is given to me, knowing it is only finite and partial, I will know more and different things tomorrow than I know today, and I can be open to the new possibility I cannot even imagine today.

It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

Just as darkness cannot put out a candle, evil has no real power over goodness.

The light shining through was a rainbow from hell.

yes, I know what you loved, brooding by the shore, your cheek in your still-damp hand, thinking, —Vicente Aleixandre, from "Tragic Destiny," A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2007)

Allí surtiendo de lo oscuro, rompiendo de lo oscuro, serena, pero casi cruel, como una leve diosa recobrada, hete aquí que ella emerge, sagradamente su ademán extendiendo, para que la luz del día, la ya gozosa luz que la asalta, se vierta doradamente viva sobre su palma núbil.

We as believers cannot be effective in offering others hope and forgiveness when we're not living in the light of that hope.

What's needed isn't change; it is transformation. Change seeks different solutions to intractable problems. Transformation asks different questions so that we can see the problems in a new light.

I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Prague lay before him like a mysterious stranger in an old hat. An exotic woman waiting for him in poor light. Like an inviting gypsy with a brand-new iPod.

Should we continue to look upwards Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. (Les Miserables)

They've made a peace treaty of their own', Eva used to say, when we passed an illuminated window. (In reference to the strict German laws on light blackouts.)

I think the darkest dark is always attracted to the brightest light.