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So if you, O subsequent ones, ever deign to look down at us from your summit of effortless superiority, remember that you have only scaled it on the back of our efforts. For it is thankless to grope in the dark and tempting to rest until the light of understanding shines upon us. But if we are led into this temptation, your kingdom will never come.
— Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
There is a cosmic river flowing from the Sun to the Earth and to everywhere: The Sunlight, the holiest of the holy rivers! Enemy of Darkness is the best friend of existence! Touch the sunlight with a strong love because light itself made that love possible!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The Mauna Kea night shift was an 18 hour night in wintertime at the 13,796 feet summit (before sunset to after sunrise) with insufficient time for adequate sleep before the next night shift. Night shift was between 5 and 8 nights long and we slept at 9,200 feet. We sat at a desk staring at four large computer monitors and a large cathode ray tube television. I would also use my Wi-Fi laptop computer. I would have extreme fatigue by the end of every night shift and have chapped lips which I now associate with exposure to the artificial light from the computer screens. A good day of sleep between shifts was rare and starting the next shift fatigued was normal.
— Steven Magee
Be forever young in the flesh, it makes the mind flash light low, until the spotlight follows your shadow.
— Goitsemang Mvula
Every time you cry, your tears put out my candle.
— Jackie Shemwell, The Devil in Canaan Parish
The open road, at night, looks like life.There's only what's in front of you, insufficiently lit.
— William S. Friday, A Death on Skunk Street
When he touches a wall the ooze grows thicker, drawn to his and as if he's become a gravity well for the darkness - and it occurs to me that the dark must be in love with the light. Yet one must always kill the other.
— Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep
Even the most ambitious among us know to work from the shadows. We’re not interested in another war between Light and Dark. Not until the power balance has shifted, anyway. That’s where you come in. –Aedus Butler
— Zechariah Barrett
The larks were singing everywhere, a heron flew past, the sky was so high in the trees were wrestling all around the house and the light-- could you catch the light and hug it tight and take it inside you?
— Nescio, Amsterdam Stories
During our darkest moments on the edges of time we mostly deny compassion and hope for those who will shape our shadows into light!
— Vasilios Karpos
This will not be the end of the clans as long as I have breath in my body"~jayfeather
— Erin Hunter
And the Light shineth in darkness
—  and the darkness comprehended it notJohn 1:5 And the Light shineth in darkness
All you need to know is The Light.
— C.F. Reynolds, Invoking The Light: Lift the Veil of Illusion
Am I on my way toward that light? Are we always on our way toward the light like a shining blinding opening out of time and darkness? I ask myself as I walk on. I don't know where these words come from, because I'm not aware that I've ever had such thoughts before or that I've inherited such words. Is that what it's all about? Always under way? Always alone? Under way from this group in the half darkness, from these beings who will always follow us, never completely pale around us, no matter where we are, but who can be found around us in those closest to us, in those we meet, even if we travel across the sea...
— Ole Sarvig, The Sea Beneath My Window
It's not how long it glows. It's not how long the light lasts. It's what it says while it's still visible.
— Marianne Wiggins, Evidence of Things Unseen
Corporeal reality is much more rich and precious than we realize. It feels good to have a body, to surge on currents of emotion, to have nerve endings, mitochondria in our cells, tangible focused energy, the embodiment of light — given a voice.
— Laurie Perez, The Look of Amie Martine
As it turns out, that persistence is a requirement. Thus, he would tell me, you need the dark to show the light, so you shouldn't curse darkness. You needed death to define life.
— Terry Goodkind, The First Confessor
These woods are as empty as you think, he had said. You cannot know what the light might summon from the darkness.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.
— Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In thewater, I am safe and pulled in where Ican’t get out. Everything slows down—the noise and the racing of my thoughts.
— Jennifer Niven
Practically anything can go faster than Disc light, which is lazy and tame, unlike ordinary light. The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no cap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. presumably, he said, these must be some elementary particles - kingons, or possibly queons - that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plan to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expounded because, at that point, the bar closed.
— Terry Pratchett, Mort
The light of love is a flaming fire.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
May the sacred light shine on your path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Forgiveness opens your life for an abundance of positive things. 　
— Tara Estacaan
Tell about the quality of light coming in through your window. Jump in and write. Don’t worry if it is night and your curtains are closed or you would rather write about the light up north—just write. Go for ten minutes, fifteen, a half hour.
— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
...perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing is the light.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
He threw his hands to his eyes and hissed. Like the hiss of incinerating ashes. 'What is this bright, orange orb in the sky that mocks me with its warmth?
— Jesikah Sundin, Transitions: Novella Collection
Where others saw gloom, I saw light or lit a candle.
— G.R. Gopinath
Her hair was full of lights
— Anaïs Nin
silence in the lightover thick bamboo leaves, the sunmagical yellow- Tara Estacaan, Day's Crown Haiku
— Tara Estacaan
The lord of light made the sun and moon and stars to light our day, and gave us fire to keep the night at bay.
— George R.R. Martin
The sacred lamp burns to give light
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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, The Look of Amie Martine
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, 12 Keys to Success for Misfits, Weirdos & Introverts: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Understanding Your Place in the World
if you are different and alone it doesn't mean you wont see a moonlight
—  there is a sunrise for everyone and everyday.
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, An Average Curse
The windows of the houses - even if the house is ramshackle - are always beautiful because windows represent light!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
May the bridges I burn light the way
— Moosa Rahat
Remember,” she whispered, “it’s only when the night is darkest that you can see the light of the stars.
— Elizabeth   Hunter, The Secret
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, The Jolly Corner
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, A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
First find a path, and a little light to see by. Then push up your sleeves and start helping.
— Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
When the shadow is in front of you, all you see is the darkness and forget the sun is at your back.
— Brownell Landrum, A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
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, The Rose and the Sword
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, The Rose and the Sword
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, The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World
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.
Light chases away darkness.
— Anasazi Foundation, The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World
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, The One-Hundred: Tamir
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, A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
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, NIV
There is always a beautiful light around the compassionate people: The shining light of goodness!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
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, A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
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, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
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, The Square Root of Summer
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, Back To Grace: Spiritual poetry and reflections
The light that brings the dawn.
— George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
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, For Two Thousand Years
The light within my spirit is a sacred lamp.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
He was the last thread suspending me in the light. Without him, I can feel myself spiraling downward, falling to a place where I can no longer pull myself back up.
— Marie Lu, The Young Elites
God is closer than you think. In your heart, is his truth and light.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
If I were a flower,humming bird would be my favourite beeAnd If I were blind,the light of darkness I'd love to see
— Munia Khan
When he came down, he was slower, and clutching something his hand. He leapt down the last 5 feet or so and came over to me, uncurling his fingers. In his palm was something trembling and silky and the bright, delicious pale gold of apples; in the gloom of the jungle it looked like light itself. Uva nudged the thing with a finger and it turned over, and I could see it was a monkey of some sort, though no monkey I had ever seen before; it was only a few inches larger than one of the mice I had once been tasked with killing, and his face was a wrinkled black heart, its features pinched together but its eyes large and as blankly blue as a blind kitten's. It had tiny, perfectly formed hands, one of which was gripping its tail, which it had wrapped around itself and which was flamboyantly furred, its hair hanging like a fringe.
— Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the world with familiar feet, and enters land after land to find its own everywhere. It has learned to speak in hundreds of languages to the heart of man. It comes into the palace to tell the monarch that he is the servant of the Most High, and into the cottage to assure the peasant that he is the son of God. Children listen to its stories with wonder and delight, and wisemen ponder them as parables of life. It has a word of peace for the time of peril, the hour of darkness. Its oracles are repeated in the assembly of the people, and its counsels whispered in the ear of the lonely. The wise and the proud tremble at its warnings, but to the wounded and penitent it has a mother's voice. The wilderness and the solitary place have been made glad by it, and the fire on the hearth has lighted the reading of its well-worn pages. It has woven itself into our deepest affections, and colored our dearest dreams; so that love and friendship, sympathy and devotion, memory and hope, put on the beautiful garments of its treasured speech, breathing of frankincense and myrrh. Above the cradle and beside the grave its great words come to us uncalled. They fill our prayers with power larger than we know, and the beauty of them lingers in our ear long after the sermons which they have adorned have been forgotten. They return to us swiftly and quietly, like birds flying from far away. They surprise us with new meanings, like springs of water breaking forth from the mountain beside a long-forgotten path. They grow richer, as pearls do when they are worn near the heart. No man is poor or desolate who has this treasure for his own. When the landscape darkens and the trembling pilgrim comes to the valley named the shadow, he is not afraid to enter; he takes the rod and staff of Scripture in his hand; he says to friend and comrade, "Good-by, we shall meet again"; and comforted by that support, he goes toward the lonely pass as one who climbs through darkness into light.
— Henry Van Dyke
Not so long afterwards it was broad day light in Iluji for the first time ever.
— Ray Anyasi, Broken Cloud: the first sunrise
Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today? All of you are connected - all of us are connected - we are all ONE being - breathing, living, light....
— Angie karan
The path of light is the path of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The lighter something is, the easier it is to darken it.
— Bruce Crown, How Dim the Promised Land
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
— John Crowley, Four Freedoms
In the absence of light, you find the brightest parts of you.
— Elvis Bittner
...even if things were broken right now. Sometimes it was the cracks that let the light in.
— Shannon Hale, The Unfairest of Them All
Always look in the direction of sun and stars
—  the sacred light of life.
If you follow the light of the world, you will never walk in darkness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is deep darkness before the dawn of light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The light extinguishes all the flaming arrows of darkness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Dark is just light turned inside out, thinks Maddy. Why be afraid of that?
— Helen Humphreys, Leaving Earth
The light shines brighter on our path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
May the light shines on the people siting in darkness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I cannot say enough of appreciation for your determination to live by the standards of the Church, to walk with the strength of virtue, to keep your minds above the slough of filth which seems to be moving like a flood across the world. Thank you for knowing there is a better way. Thank you for the will to say no. Thank you for the strength to deny temptation and look beyond and above to the shining light of your eternal potential.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
What liberates us is the light and love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
After many years the woman died, of natural causes. And a few years after that, the ogre died. Eventually, his mistresses died, down on the ground, in the people village, over decades. The war men and women died. The human girl who had escaped her early death died, across the land, over by the ocean, in her shack of blue bowls and rocking chairs. The witch, who had originally made the cake and made up up the spell and given it as a gift to her beloved ogre friend, died. The cake went on and on. Time passed...And the cake, always wanting to please, the cake who had found a way to survive its endlessness by recreating its role over and over again, tried to figure out, in its cake way, what this light-dappled object might want to eat. So it became darkness, a cake of darkness. It did not have to be human food. It did not have to be digestible through a familiar tract. It lay there on the dirt, waiting, a simmering cake of darkness. Through time, and wind, and earthquakes, and chance. At last the cloak fell out of the tree and blew across the land and happened upon the cake where it ate its darkness and extinguished its own dappled light. The cloak disappeared into night and was not seen again, as it was only a piece of coat shaped darkness now and could not be spotted so easily, had there been any eyes left to see it. It floated and joined with nowhere. Darkness was overtaking everything, anyway, pouring over the land and sky. The cake itself, still in the shape of darkness, sat on the hillside. 'What's left?' said the cake. It thought in blocks of feeling. It felt the thick darkness all around it. 'What is left to eat me, to take me in?'Darkness did not want to eat more darkness, not especially. Darkness did not care for carrot cake, or apple pie. Darkness did not seem interested in a water cake or a cake of money. Only when the cake filled with light did it come over. The darkness circling around the light, devouring the light. But the cake kept refilling, as we know. This is the spell of the cake. And the darkness eating light, and again, light, and again, light, lifted.
— Aimee Bender, The Color Master: Stories
There is always an emergency light behind load-shedding...!!!
— M.Rehan Behleem
To the short-sighted, through the fog, God must be a monster.
— Criss Jami, Healology
The journey to the light starts with a candle. Once it's lit, darkness has gone forever.
— Adriano Bulla
Do not waste your life hating. Let your life glow in love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Fight the darkness. Fight for the light.
— A.D. Posey
Embrace the darknessbut dare you stop seeking the light
— Aditya Kandari
The garden was full of sorrowSongbirds and unusual winds whistled a rhymeClouds caused to appear and cast down darknessFor this was the first day the sun didn't shine
— John E. Wordslinger
Love is infinite flames of light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We ought to walk in the bright light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Arise and shine thy light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Where there are two on point of independently distinguished purposes, you will find one infinite journey whose path is blazed with the guiding light of wisdom.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Light is light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Enlightenment is light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The most important vision one can be enlightened with is a glimpse of our own true, inherent divinity, an inkling of our eternal potential, our marvelous capabilities, our unbreakable strength, our enduring choice, and our infinite, divine, worth. To feel a permeating sense of the awe-inspiring inexplicable, indescribable Love and its Light burning ever bright and warm, like an eternal Ember at our deepest core, is a life-enhancing, defining and as positively, mind- altering and fulfilling of an experience as there ever was. It is nothing less than a miracle, a glorious paradigm shift...and that’s just the beginning.
— Connie Kerbs
Wherever you are, wherever you go, be sure to spread the light.
— A.D. Posey
A day’s brightness is determined by the light in our hearts.
— A.D. Posey
I look up to the light of the Lord to show me the way.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The greater the grace, the greater the light
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you walk with the light of the world, you will have the light of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Don’t confuse the darkness that’s leaving with the light that’s coming in.
— A.D. Posey
Be the light.
— A.D. Posey
You May Now Leave The FAYZ.
— Michael Grant
Anyone who fights the light belongs to no other place than the abode of darkness
— Osho Samuel Adetunji
Sometimes you have to take a shot in the dark to discover the light.
— A.D. Posey
Vulnerability lets in light.
— A.D. Posey
Light your fire.
— A.D. Posey
The word of God is a light that penetrates the human spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Word of God is the light for sacred path.
— Lailah  Gifty  Akita
We live in ignorance in the darkness. But the light of the truth set us free.
— Lailah  Gifty  Akita
The stars give light to night sky.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The sun is the sacred morning light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The people living darkness has seen a bright light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
See your light.
— A.D. Posey
We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.
— Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
If I could store lightnings in jars, I'd sell them to sick fireflies to light their way. Only they have nothing to pay for it with but life.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
The ones who love your dark are the only light you'll ever need.
— Jenim Dibie, The Calligraphy of God
Chaos and ancient Night, I come no spy,With purpose to explore or to disturbThe secrets of your realm, but by constraint Wand'Ring this darksome desert, as my wayLies through your spacious empire up to light,Alone, and without guide, half lost, I seekWhat readiest path leads where your gloomy bounds Confine with Heav'n; or if som other place From your Dominion won, th' Ethereal King Possesses lately, thither to arriveI travel this profound, direct my course; Directed no mean recompence it brings To your behoof, if I that Region lost, All usurpation then expelled, reduce To her original darkness and your sway (Which is my present journey) and once moreErect the Standard there of ancient Night; Yours be th' advantage all, mine the revenge.970-987
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
The moment you realize that no matter how far away in the sea you look for the love you desire, it is impossible for you to reach it without exploring the deepness within, then you will either walk on the surface or sink deeply. The light will guide you nevertheless.
— Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache
Wonders amaze me. They can aim wanderlessly in any forest, be it of dark trees or lighted bushes. And apparently, as per what I’ve heard, they can buy stuff that’s on sale, but only if and when they feel wonderfully wonderful. Because otherwise they wouldn’t really be themselves, which would be a problem for them, because if they aren’t what they are - they can’t exist, and if they don’t exist – that makes them invisible and silent to all the wandering people, who may or may not be looking for them to sell themselves to.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
It's super cloudy right now but I think I can see the northern lights from my room. Another observation: Every light is a strobe light, if you just blink fast enough, and drink enough vodka.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz
— Karen Quan, liQUID PROse QUOtes
No one thanks you for showing them the light.
— Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption
Everything is light, everything is warmth, everything is electricity, everything is a magnetic field, everything is you.
— L.H.
Shine bright like a diamond.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
It is not enough to protect the source of the light
—  the paths of the light must be protected as well so that either we may reach the light or the light may reach us!
Connect to the source of light and you will shine bright.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Even in our darkest days, our light will always lead the way.
— Karen A. Baquiran
Shine brightly thy inner light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
… remembered summer light, and the luminous inverted ghost of a boy with a parrot on his shoulder.
— Michael Chabon
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcomea it.
— John, The World English Bible (WEB): 1 John
Shine brightly your light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The light within us dances when we smile.
— Jay Woodman
Let us walk in the path of light
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers.
— Anthony Liccione
Ever since her diagnosis, she’s been fading like a light bulb with cancer’s hand on the rotary dimmer.
— Danielle Esplin, Give It Back
Being your own light ensures that you will never need another to pull you out of darkness again.
— Gary   Hopkins
It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.
— Evelyn Dunbar
Be a candle of light in someone’s life this holy season.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Never accept the situation where you have the light but sufficient only for yourself! You must have an abundant light so that you may give to others!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is the light of love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Be the light in someone's life.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
Love is the heartbeat of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Time and the bell have buried the day,The black cloud carries the sun away.Will the sunflower turn to us, will the clematisStray down, bend to us; tendril and sprayClutch and cling? ChillFingers of yew be curledDown on us? After the kingfisher's wingHas answered light to light, and is silent, the light is stillAt the still point of the turning world.
— T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems, 1909-1962
May the Lord ignite the flame of light in your soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love radiates the full beam of light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The full radiance of light is love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
No matter how dark your night, my friend, may you always find enough light to take the next step.
— John Mark Green
Light is impressionism.
— Gae Aulenti
My light must shine, so that the darkness will disappear.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
In the light, we shine brightly.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The light must illuminate.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The April sun, weak but determined, shone through a castle window and from there squeezed itself through a small hole in the wall and placed one golden finger on the little mouse.
— Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux
The light ought to shine for the darkness to fade.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
In the light, we find the light of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The light is more powerful than the darkness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The light can only shine in the darkness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The darkness had not overcome the light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The more you live in the light, the more you will flourish.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The light shines in our hearts and our lives.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I love you like the plant that does not bloomand carries in itself, hidden, the light of those flowers,
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of … Nothing is left but to love.
— Alan W. Watts
Oh, beloved, and there is nothing but shadowswhere you accompany me in your dreamsand tell me the hour of light.
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
I know you exist not just because your eyes flyand give light to things like an open window
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
He asked me for a light to light his cigarette, and by reason of unaware, it is he that really gave light to me, made me realize how much alike we all are, breathing the same air, beating the same red blood, separated through some fortune and shame in the way of humanity.
— Anthony Liccione
In my darkness, my pathway was marked by the brightness of light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Love is the greatest divine-self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We walk in the path of light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The sun shall always shine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If you're brave enough to get through the darkness then you shall shine in the light.
— Matthew Donnelly
You are a great light, brighten the world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Let your light shine, never look back and live as if today is your last day...because it just might be.
— Gena Showalter, A Mad Zombie Party
You will finally have dignity when you realize that you are not on the path, but have become the path for others.
— Shannon L. Alder
My mom used to say that faith and fear can't exist simultaneously in the mind any more than light and dark can exist simultaneously in the same room.
— Richard Paul Evans, Battle of the Ampere
I don't know where to go from here, So I crawl back inside me,AndTurn the lights off.
— Jenim Dibie, The Calligraphy of God
She felt like a creature born to reside on the bottom of the ocean floor, dark and flat and half-blind, slowly rising through the icy water to the glittering light above.
— Lisa Jewell, The Truth About Melody Browne
The greatest sacredness is great love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When I see the promotion of nighttime street lighting to the masses, I realize the great level of incompetence that is present in governments, human health and the biological effects of light.
— Steven Magee, Toxic Light
You can't fight light by using darkness.
— Sercan Leylek
You must bring light to places of darkness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Darren wasn’t darkness, and I wasn’t his light.
— Rachel E. Carter, Candidate
Color is the melody of light.
— Joyce Wycoff
Only one spirit, either good or bad, can operate at a time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Holy God, Holy light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You need a strong light for a tough journey? A light like the sun? Then you need a wise thinking!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When all of  it is given meaning in the larger story of  Jesus Christ, it destroys us, then pours our melted selves back into another form that still bears the marks of  how we got there. Then we become something that can bear light, the brightness of which is not diminished, even when divided and borrowed.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
Even in the middle of a hopeless darkness a light may suddenly reach you
—  keep your hope tightly and this great hope of yours will strongly attract the light onto you!
The Light shone shone from her skin,casting about the room in dancing beams that warmed all those that gazed upon her. A magnificent creature,so powerful,so distant,so wonderous and strange and out of reach. It almost seemed she did not belong to this world,she should walk instead through palaces in the heavens,or labyrinths of deep seas. Forests where trees stretched out of sight,with canopies that spread for miles;or mountains that glittered white and violet.
— S.K Michels
Life is love. Love is light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The light in your soul can illuminate any darkness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Let the light of your being lit every dark situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I believe the night I’ve never methides one elusive star I needto divide me between darkness and light
— Munia Khan
Lords of melody and song,Lords of roses burning bright,Blue will right the ancient wrong,Though the way is dark and long,Blue will shine with loving light.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet
In photography and in life, always look for the light -- if you don't see it, bring it...
— John Waire
A smile is a God given sun that lights up our lives in the midst of darkness
— Evy Michaels
If we preach God, it means we preach light. Consequently we preach freedom from ignorance.
— Sunday Adelaja
Light in Greek is the same thing as knowledge which is the opposite of ignorance.
— Sunday Adelaja
I believe every minister of the gospel is called to this ministry first of all. The ministry of light, the ministry of destruction of darkness, the ministry of setting people free from ignorance.
— Sunday Adelaja
Light is what we are called to preach. Our lord and saviour called himself light of the world.
— Sunday Adelaja
I am being a minister of light and a destroyer of ignorance and I shall never keep quiet until this horrendous mountain is pulled down in my country, in the church of Christ and in my continent.
— Sunday Adelaja
I am charting a course that will become a seed which may fall to the ground and die. But out of it shall arise many seeds and trees that shall become a plantation of light, which would usher in a new dawn of Gods righteousness to the church, Nigeria, and to Africa.
— Sunday Adelaja
Instead of the church in Africa to be a place for eradicating darkness by beaming out light, she has unfortunately become the den of robbers as Jesus put it.
— Sunday Adelaja
It seems to me that when you look back at a life - yours or another's - what you see is a path that weaves into and out of deep shadow. So much is lost. What we use to construct the past is what has remained in the open, a hodgepodge of fleeting glimpses. Our histories, like my father's current body, are structures built of toothpicks. So what I recall of that last summer in New Bremen is a construct of both what stands in the light and what I imagine in the dark where I cannot see.
— William Kent Krueger
God is light of the world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
NAMING THE EARTH(a poem of light for national poetry day)And the world will be born againin circles of steaming breathand beams of lightas each one of us directsour inner eyeupon its name.Hear the cry of wings,the sigh of leaves and grass,smell the new sweet mist risingas the pathway is cleared at last.Stones stand ready -they have knownsince ages and ages agothat they were not alone.Water carries the planet's energyinto skies and down to earth and bones.The cold parts steadily as we come together,bodies and hearts warm,hands tingling.We are silentbut our eyes are singing.We look, we feel, we know,we trust each other's souls,we have no need to speak.Not now, but later,when the time is right,the name will ringwithin the iron coreof each other's listening -and the very earth's being.Every creature, every plant,will hear it calling,tolling like a bell -a sound we've always feltbut never dared to hopeto hear reverberating -true at last, at every levelof existence.The poets come togetherto open the intimate centre.Believein life and air -breathe the light itself,for these are the energiesand rhythms that we needto see, to touch, to reach,to identify, to say, the NAME.Colours on your skinfuse and dissolve -leave the river cleanfor pure space and timeto enter and flow in.We all become one fluid streamof stillness and motion,of flaring thoughtpulses discoveringweird pools and twists withinwhere darkness hidesfrom the flames in our eyesbut will not snare us.We probe deeper still,journeying towards a unitywhich will be more rawand yet also more formedthan anything writtenor spoken before.Our fragile bodiesfall away -and the trees, and the roots of trees,guide us -lead us awayfrom the faces we rememberseeing each day in the mirror -into an oceanof dreamsseething with warmth,love,where the beginningis real,ripe, evolving.And the world is born againin circles of steaming breathand beams of light.An ache - a signal -a trembling moment -and the time is rightto say the name.We sing as one wholevoice of the universal -all the words, the namesof every tiny thirsting thing,and they ring out togetheras one sound,one energy, one sense,one vibration, one breath.And the world listens,beats, shines, glows -IS -Exists!
— Jay Woodman
Deep darkness precedes the dawn of brightness light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I was taught to follow the light, but the light got me lost, I was taught to see the light, but the light blinded my sight.It was the light who gave me judgment, and the judge was cruel and sick,I was taught to love the light, but darkness woke me up, and I was free.
— Quetzal
Flame itself is something that produces light via a chemical reaction, its not an opaque object unless its a very sooty flame.May i not have sooth in me Lord. MAY I BE A LIGHT WHEREVER I BE
— Mary Tornyenyor
THE MOTH AND THE BUTTERFLYWhen the sun rises over the horizon,the butterfly emerges to dance in its brilliant light.It flickers its colorful wings with euphoria,To celebrate all the beauty foundin the majestic garden of life.When the moon arrives in the darkness,The moth appears at the disappearance of sunlight.It flickers its pale wings as it shakes from its deep slumber,To go search for foodTo carry it through the night.The moth prefers the moon and detests the sun,while the butterfly loves the sun and hides from the moon.Every living creature responds to light,But depending on the amount of light you have inside,Determines which lamp in the skyYour heart will swoon. Poetry by Suzy Kassem
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
It was all real and blazing with detail. But I was shadow, light as mist, mute as the wallpaper.
— Laura Whitcomb, A Certain Slant of Light
The three l’s of being are life, light and love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
If you have seen darkness, you will appreciate the dawn of light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Empty baggage of the past, travel light in the Light!
— Margie Verdan
It is clear from our Lord's prayer that He does not intend for us to withdraw from contact with the world of non-Christians (John 17:15). Instead, He said we are to be 'the salt of the earth' and 'the light of the world' (Matthew 5:13-14).
— Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness
Love is divine. Love is light.Love is life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Light is the shadow of god
— Plato
The deeds of the light are love, faith and purity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May the Lord save and rescue the lost souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
and my pack so light I’m sure I’ve left something behind—but only my worry, and only for a moment.
— Jameson Fitzpatrick
Never was a blind person blinded by the light that overwhelms his skin but blinded by the darkness within
— Goitsemang Mvula
The light that doesn't see its darkness but that of others is the darkness in the light of the light
— Goitsemang Mvula
Maybe it was Cara's version of darkness that told me she was empty. She didn't believe in letting light in through cracks or streams, and I'm not sure she believed in letting it in at all. Cara was the empty feeling in my heart, the offness of the drumbeat in a funeral song. She didn't believe in letting the light in through cracks because she didn't believe in letting the light in at all.
— Willa Valentine
Ten years of shadows, but no longer. Light up the darkness, Magesty.
— Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows
Harry flung himself out from behind the bush and pulled out his wand."EXPECTO PATRONUM!" he yelled.And out of the end of his wand burst, not a shapeless cloud of mist, but a blinding, dazzling, silver animal. He screwed up his eyes, trying to see what it was. It looked like a horse. It was galloping silently away from him, across the black surface of the lake. He saw it lower its head and charge at the swarming dementors. . . . Now it was galloping around and around the black shapes on the ground, and the dementors were falling back, scattering, retreating into the darkness. . . . They were gone. The Patronus turned. It was cantering back toward Harry across the still surface of the water. It wasn't a horse. It wasn't a unicorn, either. It was a stag. It was shining brightly as the moon above. . . it was coming back to him.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
We claim to have the light in the Church yet we want to lock ourselves within the four walls of that same Church.
— Sunday Adelaja
Those who are fortunate to be educated, must light the flame of fire.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
There was still light in the world, and the choice was hers to be a part of it.
— C.M. Rayne, The Forbidden Land of Andara
People who truly serve God embrace light, they fall in love with light, and they proclaim light, they fight with light.
— Sunday Adelaja
If I see darkness in men of God I bring light to them.
— Sunday Adelaja
If I see darkness in politics I bring light to it.
— Sunday Adelaja
If I see darkness in my nation, I bring light to her.
— Sunday Adelaja
If I see darkness in the area of finances I bring light there.
— Sunday Adelaja
Instead it is the Church hierarchy that is rather teaching congregation to be afraid of darkness, instead of teaching them to go with light to overcome darkness.
— Sunday Adelaja
If is see darkness in Christians, I bring light to them.
— Sunday Adelaja
If I see darkness in the Church I bring light to it.
— Sunday Adelaja
Scripture states that it is the people of darkness who are supposed to be afraid of us, the carriers of light.
— Sunday Adelaja
Friends, the light has come to the earth. We now have no right any longer to be in any form of darkness, especially in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
— Sunday Adelaja
Friends I would like to challenge you to do an experiment, in the privacy of your studies. Everywhere you see the name “Jesus” in the Bible, replace it with the word light and see what that does to you.
— Sunday Adelaja
Without deep darkness, we fail to appreciate the light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
We ourselves are behaving in the Church as if we are afraid of the light, it should not be so.
— Sunday Adelaja
If we indeed possess light we shall never be afraid to go and face darkness anywhere, any-time.
— Sunday Adelaja
The divinity of the soul; life, light and love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You are not the oil, you are not the air—merely the point of combustion, the flash-point where the light is born. You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency—your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.
— Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
Whenever God wants to intervene in the affairs of the earth, he intervenes through light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom
— Sunday Adelaja
The path of light is quest for knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
If you have a good light inside you, you will get a good light from outside!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Light means knowledge in the Greek language it can also be translated as illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom
— Sunday Adelaja
The general instrument by which God interferes in the affairs of men is by the weapon of LIGHT
— Sunday Adelaja
If your headlight is broken, stop travelling in the darkness! Either you travel with the light or sit tight wherever you are!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
...we’re not even really hiking,more like meandering in cinematic light.
— Kristen Henderson, Drum Machine
I am so glad; I had the opportunity to study at University of Jena, the city of light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Jesus Christ on earth was to destroy ignorance by manifesting light
— Sunday Adelaja
God himself is referring to Jesus as light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom
— Sunday Adelaja