Light Quotes

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

~ Marianne Williamson

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

~ Marianne Williamson

Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

~ Vernon Howard

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

~ Ronald Reagan

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

~ Irving Babbitt

Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even though Obama failed to do many things he indicated he would do around food, Michelle Obama has done a lot to shine a light on the link between diet and health, which is really important.

~ Michael Pollan

At age 12, I was on 'Guiding Light,' and I wanted to be accepted by these adults I was working with. I started with the Eat Right for Your Type diet. A friend who was a little older was doing it. I have a perfectionist personality, so I wanted to do the best job I could. I was not eating anything it said not to.

~ Brittany Snow

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

~ Patrick Swayze

I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am.

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

~ Louis Aragon

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

~ George Washington

To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.

~ Debbie Ford

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.

~ Henry Knox

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

~ Albert Camus

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

~ Carl Von Clausewitz

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

~ Audre Lorde

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

~ Horace Mann

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Light is the symbol of truth.

~ James Russell Lowell

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm. His power toppled the mightiest of foes, and his intense light shined on America, and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self realization, courage, laughter, love, joy and religious freedom for all.

~ Billy Crystal

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

~ Coventry Patmore

The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory.

~ Tom Brokaw

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

~ Maya Angelou

Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness.

~ Francis Of Assisi

Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.

~ Lucille Roybal-Allard

Satellites record data in different parts of the light spectrum that we can't see. And it's that information that allows satellites to be so powerful in terms of looking at things like vegetation health, finding different kinds of geology that may indicate an oil deposit or some kind of mineralogical deposit that can be mined.

~ Sarah Parcak

There is actually a physical connection between light and our health and wellbeing.

~ Rogier Van Der Heide

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

~ Cesare Pavese

Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are there other parallel dimensions and parallel realities? Time travel that we mentioned and going to the stars.

~ Michio Kaku

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

~ Lisa Randall

A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.

~ Ragnar Frisch

As I travel the world, it seems that younger people identify me merely with some of the folklore in the 'Chuck Norris Facts' - those hyperbolic sayings that elevate my abilities beyond my capabilities. Others view me in light of the character I played in 'Walker, Texas Ranger' or in one of my 20 tough-guy films.

~ Chuck Norris

If I'm on holiday, I travel light, but if it is a work trip, I take everything but the kitchen sink.

~ Marie Helvin

Data can generally travel the speed of light unless networks are congested. When there's congestion, usually the cheapest and best thing is simply to add capacity generally, not to prioritize certain sites over others.

~ Marvin Ammori

I always try to travel light.

~ Claire Tomalin

I try to travel as light as possible to avoid baggage issues. Los Angeles airport is notorious for baggage delays, so I'll often FedEx a suitcase ahead or back so I don't need to stand around; it also minimises problems at check-in.

~ Kyle Maclachlan

On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.

~ Lisa Snowdon

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

~ Meister Eckhart