Quotes About LIGHT

Just when we had crossed the road, Richard was the one who told us that the Traffic Lights were normal again. But when we need to cross the road, all the traffic lights did not function...

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. ~Joseph Campbell

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ~Blaise Pascal

Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep. ~H.M. Tomlinson

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ~ Thomas Elva Edison

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. ~ Chinese Proverb

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

You've got to chase your dreams. ~ Earvin "Magic" Johnson

I would rather start a family than finish one. ~ Don Marquis

To us, Family means putting your arms around each other and being there. ~ Barbara Bush

All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within. ~ Horace Friess

Life is like riding a bicycle, you don't fall off unless you plan to stop peddling. ~ Claude Pepper

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ~ Mencius

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Every artist was first an amateur. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? ~Maurice Freehill

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. ~Mary Dunbar

There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~Edith Wharton

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light. ~Felix Adler

Quotations For The Soul II

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy. ~ Tryon Edwards


One of the hardest lessons we learn in this life, and one that many people never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure in the common, the near at hand -- to see that heaven lies about us here in this world. ~ John Burroughs


My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. ~ Michelangelo


Faith strips the mask from the world and reveals God in everything. It makes nothing impossible and renders meaningless such words as anxiety, danger, and fear, so that the believer goes through life calmly and peacefully, with profound joy -- like a child, hand in hand with his mother. ~ Charles De Foucauld


Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence. ~ Freya Stark


As we begin to sense the divine in the 'ordinary', our 'ordinary' lives will become quite extraordinary. ~ Richard Carlson


We are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred than a human being, that the end of all right institutions, whether the home or the church or an educational establishment, or a government, is the development of the human soul. ~ Anna Howard Shaw



Love...puts you in a right relation with God and others, reciprocal rather than heirarchical... But the great commandment is extralegal. Love cannot be forced. It must be chosen. You love not out of dread but out of your own fullness. It's what you were made for. When you fail at it, you aren't sent to prison, or to the electric chair, or to hell. You are commanded again: Love. ~ Nancy Mairs


When half the world is still plagued by terror and distress, you stop guiltily sometimes in the midst of your house-laughter and wonder if you've a right to it. Ought any of us to laugh, until all of us can again, you ask yourself, sometimes. ~ Margaret Lee Runbeck