Illuminate Quotes

Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

~ Thomas Aquinas

Each time a person passes by you and you say 'hello', imagine that person turning into a candle. The more positivity, love and light you reflect, the more light is mirrored your way. Sharing beautiful hellos is the quickest way to earn spiritual brownie points. You should start seeing hellos as small declarations of faith. Every time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.

~ Suzy Kassem

I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that's what a comet is like, you see, a comet is born in the outer realms of the universe! But it's only when it ventures too close to our sun or to other stars that it releases the blazing tail behind it and shoots brazen through the heavens! And meteors become sucked into our atmosphere before they burst like firecrackers and realize that they're shooting stars! That's why I enjoy taking myself out of my own element, my own comfort zone, and hurling myself out into the unknown. Because it's during those scary moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate magnificently and fire dusts begin to fall off of me! I discover a smile I didn't know I had, I uncover a feeling that I didn't know existed in me... I see myself. I'm a shooting star. A meteor shower. But I'm not going to die out. I guess I'm more like a comet then. I'm just going to keep on coming back.

~ C. Joybell C.

Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is bound to be turbulence in the clouds of confusion before one can view the friendly skies, and an illuminated landing strip.

~ T.f. Hodge

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

~ Jorge Luis Borges

I spent all nightweaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautifulwhen you wear my light.

~ Kamand Kojouri

In the beginning..when ray and day hadn't yet come into existence at all, there was a kind of radiance that illuminates universe. That radiance is the light of knowledge and goodness. That radiance will persistently and consistently shines brightly even after all the stars and moons in this vast universe died out.

~ Toba Beta

Love from novels isn't true love: it ends where it should begin. True love, deep love, grows up with time, throughout days of dullness and days of storms. It leaves in one's heart a rainbow of tenderness and forgiveness which illuminates forever the beloved one.

~ Gabrielle Dubois

Be like the sun who fell in love with the moon and shared all his light.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.

~ Kamand Kojouri

For what was it about books that once finished left the reader in a bit of a haze and made them reread the last few sentences in order to continue the ringing in their hearts a while longer, so as not to let the silence illumine the fact that reading, they had gained something — distance, a lesson, a companion, a new world — but now, after the last full stop, they had lost something palpable and felt a little emptier than before.

~ Kamand Kojouri

May God brighten your path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Follow the path that leads to understanding. Only then, will you illuminate the way for others. Once you open your mind and gain knowledge, truth, you'll leave the darkness and enter into the light of wisdom.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.

~ Brandon Sanderson

You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Remember that light becomes evident in darkness. We do not create light by avoiding those who are captives of darkness, but we become light by illuminating the night. Remember that always.

~ C. Joybell C.

A permanent pathThat, once illuminated,Goes ever onward – a way home…

~ Scott Hastie

Prayer illuminate the path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You should be aiming to illuminate your indoor daytime environment with natural outdoor light, not electrical lighting products.

~ Steven Magee

Let us be a messenger of peace and illuminate the world with the lights of our love.

~ Debasish Mridha

We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated onto its surface by the Sun and is never proud to say I am the source of light. God shines through us, hence He deserves the glory; not us.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Eureka can be an answer to a question we have never asked. It can be the articulation of a sudden and unforeseen idea or the expression of a magic moment that throws us into a new world. It acts like a radiant sunbeam that comes out of the blue and illuminates a dim past, opening a new, dynamic horizon. It may even be a trivial but lucky encounter with new friends, who let us be what we are in our imagination: original and undifferentiated. (“Waiting for Eureka” )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Here’s what's breaking into my imagination and whatever is in there; that you are not afraid you’ve seen, is yours to take.

~ Omar Gamal Said

Revelations help us accept the things we need the most, expose the secrets we so desperately try to hide and illuminate the dangers all around us. But more than anything, revelations are windows into our true selves... of the good and the evil and those wavering somewhere in between. But they have the ultimate power to destroy all that we cherish most.

~ Emily Thorne

Staying in alignment with truth will always illuminate the path of another soul’s journey.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Doubt is the first ray of illumination

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The sun kept dipping down into the ocean and the lights came on at the harbor, casting sudden shadows on the ground, illuminating the faces that were just a second ago silhouettes. The sky was golden and purple, the ocean a darker shade of violet.

~ Adi Alsaid

If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.

~ Werner Herzog