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Quotes About Light

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition
~ Blaise Pascal
Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.
~ Rumi
I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.
~ Doris Lessing
The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
~ Florence Nightingale
For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.
~ Plato
The warrior of the light has a destiny to fulfill.
~ Paulo Coelho
Got a light? See? Careful. I'm everything you ever dreamed.
~ Ali Smith, The Accidental
Oh, beloved, and there is nothing but shadowswhere you accompany me in your dreamsand tell me the hour of light.
~ Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.
~ Louis Sullivan
At the end of 'Next to Normal,' you can see the light. 'There will be light.' That's the reason the show exists. Those are the last four words.
~ Alice Ripley
If I can bring a little light, love, and laughter into my environment, it's a win.
~ Stephanie Ruhle
Light is architectural. It is sculptural.
~ Robert Wilson
In like a dimwit, out like a light.
~ Walt Kelly
Panko are the elite of the breadcrumb world because they stay so crunchy and light.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
I want to be the physical embodiment of light, you know? And I feel like now people know, when they see the lights go off and this light-up figure appear on stage, they know that's Mustafa Ali.
~ Mustafa Ali
There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.
~ Annie Dillard
I love the idea of live theater the best because you are sitting there with the community in the dark, looking at the light, and that's really - you can't get any higher than that.
~ Kenny Leon
When it comes to luggage, I am an underpacker.
~ Pharrell Williams
I always try to travel as light as possible. I feel really embarrassed having loads of luggage.
~ KT Tunstall
Most of the time throughout my day I like to keep it light. Go to the mall or drop by a friend's house, go talk with my family. And then after that it's studio. Studio is kind of a process. It's like an all day thing.
~ Omarion
Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life a new again.
~ Diane Ackerman
husk or shell that has grown up around a spark of holiness, masking its light (203): Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005), p. 93.   Yiddish's
~ Diane Ackerman