Quotes About Illumination

Dentro un raggio di sole che entra dalla finestra, talvolta vediamo la vita nell'aria. E la chiamiamo polvere.

The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop.

Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.

The fire cackled musically. From it swelled light smoke. Overhead the foliage moved softly. The leaves, with their faces turned toward the blaze, were colored shifting hues of silver, often edged with red. Far off to the right, through a window in the forest could be seen a handful of stars lying, like glittering pebbles, on the black level of the night.

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver.

A human in dark, is one without soul.

Lailah, always remember that you are light that bring illumination to many people across the world.

Everyone roams in darkness, A wise always find the light.

Just like life, it was only the contrast with darkness that had made it seem brighter.

The sky, with a single star, would be dark and boring. A million stars in the firmament makes for something wondrous and bright.

Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.

If stars avoided the dark, they would not be visible at night.

As paint needs a canvass for its beauty to show, stars need darkness for their splendor to shine.

To love beauty is to see light.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

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Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

Uma das abordagens mais premonitórias do lugar do espectral em um mundo iluminado, sem dia ou noite, é o filme Solaris, de Andrei Tarkóvski, de 1972.

Clarification is not to clarify things. It is to put one's self in the clear (Sir Humphrey Appleby)

Even when broaching the most familiar subjects – especially when broaching the most familiar subjects – we have always to be looking to illumine them in ways that make them seem unfamiliar, fresh, in ways that make us believe we have not seen them before.

Let arms be still and voices low, A million eyes watch as you go. A silken door your pathway ends, There fire and light will be your friends. Then see yourself as others may, And catch noon's eye to clear your way.

Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.