In The Light Quotes

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

My first pastoral letter's gonna be a condemnation of light beer and instant mashed potatoes -- I hate those two things.

I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.

Become the person you were meant to be, light your inner fire and follow your heart's desire.

A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.

I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.

You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikes The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light

Asana done from the brain makes one heavy and done from the heart makes one light.

A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.

If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

We are the Sun with all the different kinds of Light.

Roses bloom, and then they wither; Cheeks are bright, then fade and die; Shapes of light are wafted hither, Then, like visions, hurry by.

One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.

Why don't you light that candle ?

It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun.

Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is natures red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.

A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.

Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.

The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything.

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

Find the light and it will show you the path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that is right.

Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.

Be a light unto others, not boastful of self.

Art is not to throw light but to be light.

Does it not stir up our hearts, to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding abundant light, and go to them that sit in darkness?

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.

The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.

…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.

I'm a keep running through the red light living my life.

Everything is a hero: A lighthouse which gives light to us; weeds that provide shelter to little insects; a water drop which quenches a thirsty ant! Everything that helps us to live is a hero!

Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.

As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.

The friend of silence comes close to God. In secret he converses with him and receives his light.