"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that". Martin Luther King, Jr.
"You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light."
Edward Abbey
To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest”
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Francis Bacon
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
Charles Austin Beard quotes (American Historian and Educator, 1874-1948)
Terry Pratchett (English Writer, b.1948)
Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Baptist Minister and Civil-Rights Leader. 1929-1968)
...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
Stephen King (American Writer, best known for his horror novels. b.1947)
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?
Maurice Freehill
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland
Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.
Michael Strassfeld
Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom.
Aretaeus
There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Maori Proverb
The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
Felix Adler
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
When you possess light within, you see it externally.
Anaïs Nin
Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
Norman B. Rice
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir
The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.
John Greenleaf Whittier
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...
Susan Polis Shutz
I'm not a doctor and I don't know the technical terminology, but I do know that sunshine activates our happiness glands.
Jessi Lane Adams
From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, "More light." Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's Field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Aaron Rose
A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home.
Author Unknown
Light is good from whatever lamp it shines.
Author Unknown
n faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Blaise Pascal
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joy requires one to be awake,
Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright.
Some prefer the dark, as is their right,
On grounds of agony, and to forsake
Not only bliss, but all that's blessed by light.
Nicholas Gordon, poemsforfree.com
Sunshine is my quest.
Winston Churchill
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
Earl Nightingale
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin
Sunshine surrounds the earth as love surrounds our souls.
Amethyst Snow-Rivers
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
Alan Alda
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
Joseph Joubert
There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.
N.P. Willis
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time.
Emily Dickinson
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light
Joseph Campbell
I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino
The stars are the street lights of eternity.
Author Unknown
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran
An age is called "dark," not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it.
James Michener
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light."
Jean Giraudoux