Light Quotes
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A drainless showerOf light is poesy; ’tis the supreme of power;’Tis might half slumb’ring on its own right arm.
John Keats
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If the light that is on you is brighter than the light that is in you, the light that is on you will destroy you.
Christine Caine
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Trauma causes people to remain stuck in interpreting the present in light of an unchanging past. The scene you re-create in a structure may or may not be precisely what happened, but it represents the structure of your inner world: your internal map and the hidden rules that you have been living by.
Bessel van der Kolk
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The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.
Hans Arp
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My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.
Francine Rivers
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True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.
Blaise Pascal
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You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.
Eugene H. Peterson
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Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
Victor Hugo
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The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
J. G. Holland
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Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood?
Isaac Newton
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Car love is the sound of a throaty V-8 rumbling and revving, the acceleration throwing you back in the seat - especially when you get on a beautiful, winding road and the light's dappling through the trees.
John Lasseter
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What shall we do my darling, when trial grows more, and more, when the dim, lone light expires, and it's dark, so very dark, and we wander, and know not where, and cannot get out of the forest - whose is the hand to help us, and to lead, and forever guide us? ... Where do you think I've strayed and from what new errand returned. I have come from to and fro, and walking up and down the same place that Satan hailed from when God asked where he'd been.
Emily Dickinson
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You know my beautiful speech has made you see me in a whole new and even more attractive light. You totally think I'm secretly deep now. And you are right. It is true. I have deeps.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark.
Sarah Dessen
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History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the present; and we can fully understand the present only in light of the past. To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.
Edward Hallett Carr
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The terrible thing about TERRORISM is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
Terence Hardy
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I want to ride my motorcycle up the side of the Luxor to the light and vanish.
Criss Angel
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It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold.
Charles Dickens
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Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.
Douglas Horton
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Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
Anne Sullivan Macy
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Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.
Thomas Hardy
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Lights of the world, and stars of human race.
William Cowper