Aimee Bender Quotes, Light Quotes, Yellow Quotes

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

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God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.

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Tags : John Masefield Quotes , Spring Quotes , Light Quotes

The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.

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If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Disappointment Quotes , Light Quotes

In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.

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God's first creature, which was light.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Light Quotes , Firsts Quotes

We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Memories Quotes , Light Quotes

For youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears, Than settled age his sables, and his weeds Importing health and graveness.

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A warrior balances solitude and dependence.

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The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

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In the midst of darkness, light persists.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Light Quotes , Darkness Quotes

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Commitment Quotes , Light Quotes

Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now am I dead, Now am I fled; My soul is in the sky: Tongue, lose thy light; Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die, die.

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God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Night Quotes , Light Quotes

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Book Quotes , Light Quotes

When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Light Quotes , Self Quotes

A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.

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History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Light Quotes , Doe Quotes