Light Quotes

Light, Amie, can be blinding when it first comes on. Lasers can be deadly, even when streaming from benevolence. We need perspective. We need it to seem wiser than us, tested and tempered by time.

~ Laurie Perez

As you go through your journey of self-healing and self-discovery, it may seem like a long stretch of darkness to get through, but just like a tunnel, know that there is light and freedom at the end of it.

~ Tiffany L. Jackson

if you are different and alone it doesn't mean you wont see a moonlight, there is a sunrise for everyone and everyday.

~ Sampada Mohite

The only thing you must do, flesh-child, is die. The rest is but a trick of light in the foam on the waves.

~ Rue

Remember,” she whispered, “it’s only when the night is darkest that you can see the light of the stars.

~ Elizabeth Hunter

He was a dim secondary social success -- and all with people who had truly not an idea of him. It was all mere surface sound, this murmur of their welcome, this popping of their corks -- just as his gestures of response were the extravagant shadows, emphatic in proportion as they meant little, of some game of 'ombres chinoises' [French: shadow play].

~ Henry James

Life is a continuum; neither black nor white, but a series of shades from light to dark. When the shadow is in front of you, all you see is the darkness and forget the sun is at your back.

~ Brownell Landrum

First find a path, and a little light to see by. Then push up your sleeves and start helping.

~ Anne Lamott

When the shadow is in front of you, all you see is the darkness and forget the sun is at your back.

~ Brownell Landrum

Each morning offers lessons in light. For the morning light teaches the most basic of truths: Light chases away darkness.

~ Anasazi Foundation

Sending love to a situation is really simple and works wonders. All you have to do is think of the situation and imagine it surrounded by a light that reminds you of love.

~ Kyle Gray

Walk in the light pathways.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a host of angels surrounding you, Rebecca. Not figuratively. Literally. With wings spread far to encompass you, protect you with their Light. Remember that they are with you—see them with your heart and soul—whenever you are forced to engage in battle with forces that seek and have become, through their own will, evil.

~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

St. Catherine of Siena once said, ‘If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze.’ But,” I turned to him urgently, “how can I even light a single candle if someone blocks off the first step?

~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

There's a light, a light of hope, to break, destroy, recreat, unite and reform grounds of a future, our sustenance. And until that light shines so bright, we the people, our generation will forever March on to failure, otherwise eternal victory is assured!!!!!!!!

~ Samuel Gyekye Mensah

Light shines but why do many souls desire to stay in darkness?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do you and I allow light to chase darkness from our souls as well?

~ Anasazi Foundation

And I would give my self to this light just to have my brother and mother by each other’s side. I would swim back to the ocean and birth a creature of acceptance, I would if it let me. I would give it all away.

~ A.p. Sweet

Light chases away darkness.

~ Anasazi Foundation

I picked up the back of the shirt, the light breen scales shimmering in the makeshift lighting of the bathroom. Something light swims up inside of me. Something like hope. Maybe I would be able to do it.

~ K. Weikel

Dark energy is the absence of love, just as black is the absence of color. The more love, the more colors added to the palette, the more light is achieved.

~ Brownell Landrum

The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

~ Matthew 6:22-23

Life should be enjoyed, you know. That’s an important lesson to keep in mind. It will help bring him through the darkness and into the light.

~ Brownell Landrum

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk.

~ Anne Lamott

After nearly a year of mourning, I feel like the Victorians when Edison came along- all those years in the darkness, and then electric light. I've got the earth between my toes.

~ Harriet Reuter Hapgood

I've been scraping little shavings off my ration of lightAnd I've formed it into a ball, and each time I pack a bit more onto itI make a bowl of my hands and I scoop it from its secret cacheUnder a loose board in the floorAnd I blow across it and I send it to youAgainst those moments whenThe darkness blows under your doorIsn't that what friends are for?

~ Bruce Cockburn

I live life in spirit of love and light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I live in the realm of love and light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The spark of light in the soul is beginning of self awareness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The realm of love is light of miracles.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

At the dawn of light, the darkness diminishes.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Anchor your life with love and light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The spirit of light gives birth to the soul of love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you walk in the light by faith, there is no fear for darkness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In the process of looking at broken paths, we often forget the lights that illuminates that path.

~ Alok Jagawat

Stolen moments” create a feeling of enjoyment in our “intensive time” awareness. The glow and the intensity of those instants can guide us throughout a whole lifetime. They can expose a second or a third dimension of the daily events and shed an expounding light on all the little details we encounter. (Stolen moments )

~ Erik Pevernagie

A mystical symphony permeates my senses and a holy lullaby embraces me.

~ Earthschool Harmony

The light that brings the dawn.

~ George R.r. Martin

For too long I have played on the stage of lucidity, and I have lost. Now I need to accustom my eyes to the falling darkness. I need to contemplate the natural slumber of all things, which the light calls forth, yet also causes to tire. Life must begin in darkness. Its powers of germination lie hidden. Every day has its night, every light has its shadow.I cannot be asked to accept these shadows gladly. It is enough that I accept them.

~ Mihail Sebastian

The light within my spirit is a sacred lamp.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita