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What was dark will always be dark, I know that. Death is still death. Hatred will never be far, in this life.But also, there is light. It is everywhere. It floods this world--the world brims with it. Once, I sat by the Coe and watched a shaft of light come down through the trees, through leaves, and wondered if there was a greater beauty, or a simpler one. There are many great beauties. but all of them--from the snow, to his fern-red hair, to my mare's eye reflecting the sky as she smelt the air of Rannoch Moor--have light in them, and are worth it. They are worth the darker parts.
— Susan  Fletcher, Corrag
When the first "let there be light" spoken, the entire electromagnetic spectrum is emitted.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
We can allow ourselves to pass through the darkest valley without losing our light. One candle can lit millions of other candles, which are willing to receive the light.
— Raphael Zernoff
The size of the tree you cut determines the weight with which you have to throw the axe.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Answer the Call to Shine Your LightRight now there may be just few individuals who balance duality in unconditional love, but their unifying perception is very integrative. They live their lives in “Trinity” after they have expanded their understanding of “Duality”. There is no moral value judgment applied in their perceptions. The moral value judgment continually creates an illusion of separation and disconnection. A balanced consciousness, with no dual perception is very integrative and all inclusive. It expands at an enormous speed assisting others to perceive a myriad of different perspectives as different yet equally valid. Those individuals shine their light in the world as a sign of unity, harmony, and emotional balance. They are living witnesses to the reality of love, compassion, ease and joy. By their example others can choose to understand that life can be easy to live in one's preferred way without devaluing others' choices. They are those who lightened up carrying their bright match lit in a darkened room filled with fear and drama.
— Raphael Zernoff
There is no membership required for shining the light.
— Raphael Zernoff
There is always a storm before a calm.There is always a darkness before daylight. There is always turbulence before quietness.There is always sacrifices before a great victory.There is always awaiting before a breakthrough.There is always prayer before an answer.There is always pain before joy.There is always failure before success.There is always pregnancy before the birth of new born baby.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Feed yourself with the food of wisdom.Wisdom is recognised by joy and peace.When you allow your ways to be light you go high.When your path supports heaviness it weighs you down.
— Raphael Zernoff
Carry the flame of love and light to everyone you meet.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
May the knowledge of the Gospel, the power of salvation transform our lives to walk in the light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. After the light is let in to our self-perceptions, we immediately realise that it always has been there, yet we created an illusion of darkness.
— Raphael Zernoff
May our lives reflect God's love and light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you want to experience enlightenment, take a deep breath in and relax. As you are releasing the air forget, for a moment, about all your worries and desires. Just appreciate yourself the way you are in the very moment. Then, just lighten up. Keep doing it as often as you want to experience enlightenment. That is it.
— Raphael Zernoff, I Am
Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. When we throw light upon our self-perceptions, we immediately realise that the light has always been there, yet we had created an illusion of darkness.
— Raphael Zernoff
It is not enough that light shines on you
—  it must shine on others too! It is not enough that you are happy
So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the shadowy solitude my longing for light grew so frantic that I could rest no more, and I lifted entreating hands to the single black ruined tower that reached above the forest into the unknown outer sky. And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall through I might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without even beholding day.
— H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider
He stared up at the moon, which looked like a giant hole in the sky, letting light through to the other side.
— Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells
These were dangerous thoughts, he knew. They were the kind that crept up on a Watchman when the chase was over and it was just you and him, facing one another in that breathless little pinch between the crime and the punishment.And maybe a Watchman had seen civilization with the skin ripped off one time too many and stopped acting like a Watchman and started acting like a normal human being and realized that the click of the crossbow or the sweep of the sword would make all the world so clean.And you couldn’t think like that, even about vampires. Even though they’d take the lives of other people because little lives don’t matter and what the hell can we take away from them?And, too, you couldn’t think like that because they gave you a sword and a badge and that turned you into something else and that had to mean there were some thoughts you couldn’t think.Only crimes could take place in darkness. Punishment had to be done in the light. That was the job of a good Watchman, Carrot always said. To light a candle in the dark.
— Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
Let go of everything that you hold onto, which does not serve you anymore. Be light, walk faster.
— Raphael Zernoff
There is a light that shines in the darkness, which is only visible there.
— Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark
. . .in your light, had I learned to love, here		in your beauty, could I speakknowing of this space close withinas the breath held inside a garden rose, there—	there is no time.
— John Daniel Thieme
After years in utter darkness, I force my eyes into the light. For I must retain my sight, that I might view the wholeness of the void, objectively.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
I long to drift through turquoise skies;race the wind in rampant flight.Ruddy chains have framed my eyes,they seize my heart and stain the light.
— Craig Froman, An Owl on the Moon: A Journal from the Edge of Darkness
Deep within my soul lies a great light.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
When you suppress your darkness you also suppress your light.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision. O Greater Light, we praise Thee for the less; The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee! We thank Thee for the light that we have kindled, The light of altar and of sanctuary; Small lights of those who meditate at midnight And lights directed through the coloured panes of windows And light reflected from the polished stone, The gilded carven wood, the coloured fresco. Our gaze is submarine, our eyes look upward And see the light that fractures through unquiet water. We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!
— T.S. Eliot, The Rock
Light of life.The power of lifeGod is life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes it seems that light can transform anything! That it is an undeniable and irreducible metaphor for grace. But do the people of the ranchitos know this? Is it for beauty that they do it? Or do they merely want a comfortable illumination in their little shacks?It doesn't matter.We can't stop ourselves from making beauty. We can't stop the world.
— Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief
The reading of great books awaken and brightens the light of my soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
...I looked out the window at walls of moonlit cloud rising beside us as though we we were at the bottom of some, gray and ivory canyon, hung above the moon-smashed sea...But, with whatever hindsight, I suppose the reason that I want to close on a consideration of these words is that the moon-solid progress through high, drifting cumulus is — read them again — at the very opposite of what we perceive on a liquid's tilting and untilting top, and so becomes the other privileged pole among the images of this study, this essay, this memoir. Or perhaps, as it is only a clause whose syntactic place has been questioned by my own unscholarly researches, I merely want to fix it before it vanishes like water, like light, like the play between them we only suggest, but never master, with the word motion.
— Samuel R. Delany, The Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village
We co-create when we reach out and touch souls. Like rays of light—where they converge—twice as bright.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
There is a light in every soul.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
If there was ever an example for redemption, it's you.
— Michael Grant
Love is the path that guides the men to the fields of infinite LIGHT!
— Dave Zebian
The word of God is a light unto my path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love is a beautiful in all it's forms.Love is the light that ignites by soul.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
The light within my soul is sacred.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love is the light that brightens every heart's darkness.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Fear nothing
—  the Spirit of Love will give you wings.
We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
My goofiest-sounding secret is that I also believe in magic. Sometimes I call it God and sometimes I call it light, and I believe in it because every now and then I read a really good book or hear a really good song or have a really good conversation with a friend and they seem to have some kind of shine to them. The list I keep of these moments in the back of my journal is comprised less of times when I was laughing or smiling and more of times when I felt like I could feel the colors in my eyes deepening from the display before me. Times in which I felt I was witnessing an all-encompassing representation of life driven by an understanding that, coincidence or not, our existence is a peculiar thing, and perhaps the greatest way to honor it is to just be human. To be happy AND sad, and everything else. And yeah, living is a pain, and I say I hate everyone and everything, and I don’t exude much enthusiasm when sandwiched between fluorescent lighting and vinyl flooring for seven hours straight, and I will probably mumble a bunch about how much I wish I could sleep forever the next time I have to wake up at 6 AM. But make no mistake about it: I really do like living. I really, truly do.
— Tavi Gevinson
Before that night, I didn't grasp that the shadows that sometimes crossed her face weren't momentary clouds passing in front of the sun. Her deep silences were more than daydreams. And her habit of standing with her arms wrapped around her ribs was a way of holding herself together.I didn't get there must be balance.She couldn't hold so much life, light and joy without also containing their opposites.
— Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise
Darkness scares us. We yearn for the comfort of light as it provides shape and form, allowing us to recognize and define what's before us. But what is it we're afraid of really? Not the darkness itself, but the truth we know hides within.
— Emily Thorne
Just as there are two sides to every story, there are two sides to every person. One that we reveal to the world and another we keep hidden inside. A duality governed by the balance of light and darkness. Within each of us is the capacity for both good and evil. But those of us who are able to blur the moral dividing line hold the true power.
— Emily Thorne
Light precedes every transition. Whether at the end of a tunnel, through a crack in the door or the flash of an idea, it is always there, heralding a new beginning.
— Teresa Tsalaky, The Transition Witness
I am a black bird, a Raven, I am Raven. I know and I am knowing—I know and see life and death, expansion and contraction and I do not shiver and cry—I am unafraid.I am Raven. I am black as liquid night with wings and my eyes are stars to see by.The light within me leads the way and it is revealed through my eyes and I am what lies between the dark and light.I am the balance between.
— Sophia Rose, Liquid Me: Poetry and Prose
God is not many. God is one. But many and divers are yet men's shadows. So long as men cast shadows on the earth, so long as each man's god no greater than hi shadow. The shadow-less only are all in the light. The shadow-less only know one god. For god is Light, and Light alone is able to know Light.
— Mikhail Naimy, The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark
Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these flashes of dark were like a crack in the sky, shocking and wrong. Reminding him that the daylight was the illusion, the scattering of light by the atmosphere, and the endless night was the permanent default behind it all.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Carl sat musing until the sun leaped above the prairie, and in the grass about him all the small creatures of day began to tune their tiny instruments. Birds and insects without number began to chirp, to twitter, to snap and whistle, to make all manner of fresh shrill noises. The pasture was flooded with light; every clump of ironweed and snow-on-the-mountain threw a long shadow, and the golden light seemed to be rippling through the curly grass like the tide racing in.
— Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.
— Eberhard Arnold, Salt and Light: Talks and Writings on the Sermon on the Mount
If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it.
— S. Kelley Harrell
He tilted my head up with his index finger. Tingles spread on my skin. "Pain, obstacles, betrayal and all shitty things that happen in life shape everyone, just as much as good things do. Don't regret anything if in the end you can say you're an amazing woman.
— Stephanie Witter, 2B or Not 2B?
Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.
— Oliver Goldsmith
I touched the moon last night;a golden glow beyond my grasp.Eons before me it rested there.It will remain when I am dust.My hand now glows from the embrace.Voices echo through nights past,and with the glow, caress my face.My finger faints from what will last.Alone I am; alone secure;the moon will last when I am gone.A Master set it in its’ place,to move the tide, refresh the dawn.Unnumbered eyes have felt its rest;have looked upon reflected light.My heart is moved away from pain;I touched the moon last night.
— Craig Froman, An Owl on the Moon: A Journal from the Edge of Darkness
Darkness does something to a place, doesn’t it? It distorts. It becomes a canvas for the imagination. The good news is that shadows are only the deflection of light. They can frighten, but they can do no harm.
— David Jeremiah, What Are You Afraid Of?
I was born upon the prairie, where the wind blew free, and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures, and where everything drew a free breath." the Great Comanche war chief, Ten Bears
— Laura Bush, Spoken from the Heart
There are beautiful things in the world and there are sad things and when they come together they make a star. The light is far away and the strangest part is that the light is inside you.
— Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch
If Vorbis was right, and there was a kind of light that made darkness visible, then down there was its opposite, the darkness where no light could ever reach: darkness that blackened light, He thought of blind Didactylos and his empty lantern.
— Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
After midday, the rain eased, and the Land Rover rode into Pokhara on a shaft of storm light. Next day there was humid sun and shifting southern skies, but to the north a deep tumult of swirling grays was all that could be seen of the Himalaya. At dusk, white egrets flapped across the sunken clouds, now black with rain; on earth, the dark had come. Then four miles above these mud streets of the lowlands, at a point so high as to seem overhead, a luminous whiteness shone- the light of snows. Glaciers loomed and vanished in the grays, and the sky parted, and the snow cone of Machhapuchare glistened like a spire of a higher kingdom. In the night, the stars convened, and the vast ghost of Machhapuchare radiated light, although there was no moon.
— Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
The light irradiates white peaks of Annapurna marching down the sky, in the great rampart that spreads east and west for eighteen hundred miles, the Himalaya- the alaya (abode, or home) of hima (snow).Hibiscus, frangipani, bougainvillea: seen under snow peaks, these tropical blossoms become the flowers of heroic landscapes. Macaques scamper in green meadow, and a turquoise roller spins in a golden light. Drongos, rollers, barbets, and white Eqyptian vulture are the common birds, and all have close relatives in East Africa.
— Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
(Many religions, from Judaism to Zoroastrianism, use light and fire as symbols for the presence of God, perhaps because light, like God, cannot be seen but permits us to see everything there is, perhaps because fire liberates the energy hidden in a log of wood or a lump of coal just as God liberates the potential energy to do good things that is hidden in every human being, just as God will be the fire that burns within Moses, enabling him to do the great things he will go on to do, but not consuming him in the process.)
— Harold S. Kushner, Overcoming Life's Disappointments
You are born to shine.Carry your light everywhere you go.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
The stars glittered through the atmosphere, and he thought of the distances that light must take to hit his eye at exactly that moment. Without him here, those photons would have been wasted.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods
When darkness falls, beauty is lit from within.
— Johnathan Jena
No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.
— Plato, Critias
And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. "All through the universe, it's being fought, all through the cosmos, and my, but it's a grand and exciting battle. I know it's hard for you to understand about size, how there's very little difference in the size of the tiniest microbe and the greatest galaxy. You think about that, and maybe it won't seem strange to you that some of our very best fighters have come right from your own planet, and it's a little planet, dears, out on the edge of a little galaxy. You can be proud that it's done so well.""Who have our fighters been? Calvin asked."Oh, you must know them, dear," Mrs. Whatsit said. Mrs. Who's spectacles shone out at them triumphantly. "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." "Jesus!" Charles Wallace said. "Why of course, Jesus!""Of course!" Mrs. Whatsit said. "Go on, Charles, love. There were others. All your great artists. They've been lights for us to see by.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety – like light – is a façade. Underneath, the whole world is drenched in darkness. The only way to truly be safer, was to accept the dark, to walk in it with eyes wide open, to be a part of it. To keep your enemies close, so that you could no longer discern where they ended and you began.
— C.J. Roberts, Captive in the Dark
Have a ray of sunshine and light with you everywhere you may go.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.
— Leonardo da Vinci
The longer I travel and the more people I meet, the more apparent it becomes that certain people will come and go in your life in order to fill a need. Not as a messiah, not as a savior, but as a light that shines to illuminate the path you are on, to show you what needs to be seen at that point in time. It is entirely up to you to open your eyes and allow yourself to see it. Some will be dim, others will shine bright. A select few will burn like the sun and make you feel a gravity so great that you have no choice but to change the course you are on.You don’t get to pick and choose who it might be and you don’t get to decide how much impact they will have. All you can do is open yourself up to the possibility when it comes, give what you can while it’s there, and be grateful when it leaves. Because life is too short to not burn like the sun. Anything else is a death sentence.
— Joseph Pascucci
Even those afraid of the dark must live through half of each day as night, to come to see the beauty in each.
— Johnathan Jena
A moment later I am moving through space. Spinning. Twirling. Dancing.In the light.
— Robyn Bavati, Dancing in the Dark
You’re like a candle in a dark room, throwing light backwards and forwards.
— Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Knowing
Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s the light.
— Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven
You are a lamp to give light to people
—  you must mount the lamp stand and shine bright! Don't hide your gifts
A person cannot shine light if he is afraid of the dark.
— Orrin Woodward
A Bible not read is like a bulb not lighted. Only insane people will love to work in the darkness with Kings' bulbs which are not switched on! ... and so goes the one who has the King James' but does not search into it!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Her rebirth stood in her mind with the clarity of a perfect diamond, the light scattering the rainbows through her body.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
We were all the same. Kids from nowhere going nowhere. He always saw a light through the darkness. Knew the cracks let that light in, and that those cracks could suck you up.
— Dito Montiel, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Everything is emotional because hope is… When I talk to people I no longer see rational beings engaged in rational discourse, I see objects, emoting. It has made me such a deep materialist that I see everything as objects, people, dogs, trees, rocks- objects that burn with the animation of hope, each engaged in their own private miracle of being. And the things that people make, the buildings and machines, the paintings and the poems, are artificial miracles, which glow from the light borrowed from their makers.
— Paul Shepheard, How to Like Everything: A Utopia
True pillar of subtle light embrace humanity between dimensions, they are serene consciousness washing the pains of all soul's.
— Dave Zebian
Buddha had said to make a light of yourself, and if Laurie had anything to say about it, one day he’d glow.
— Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Knowing
If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life would be transformed.
— Elizabeth George
We all came from the same source and it's energy in form of light shining in every consciousness.
— Dave Zebian
The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Philip obliged, opening his left hand, palm upwards, and forcing his energy into the creation of an orb of light, formed, tangible, and alive. The small suns Philip could create out of nothing, were miniatures of the original, with molten plasma lying almost invisible at their cores, obscured by the bright rays of light emitted from them, making them seem harmless.
— D.M. Enslin, Wielding Crimson
He nibbled on my lower lip again and pulled away, his breathing loud and labored. I opened my eyes and met two blue orbs so dark with desire that it almost made me lose all train of thought and strip naked. His lips were red and a little swollen from our kiss. And I'd be damned if I didn't want to nibble on his lower lip, too.
— Stephanie Witter, 2B or Not 2B?
There can be no light without shadow.
— Johnny Worthen, Beatrysel
Shadow is Light’s child. It is nothing without the Light, and nothing if it falls into Darkness.
— Anne   Hamilton, Many-Coloured Realm
I cannot bear natural light when I'm writing.
— Stephen Fry
Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That it was composed to feed on honor, but did not.
— Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.
— Diana Cochran
When a star goes supernova, the explosion emits enough light to overshadow an entire solar system, even a galaxy. Such explosions can set off the creation of new stars. In its own way, it was not unlike being born.
— Todd Nelsen, Appetite & Other Stories
If you say you are truly in love with me, you must see the light in my darkness, embrace my iniquity, and follow me to hell.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
The end is the best part of any story
— Michael Grant
I believe that whether we recognize him or not, or believe in him or not, or even know his name, again and again he comes and walks a little way with us along whatever road we're following. And I believe that through something that happens to us, or something we see, or somebody we know--who can ever guess how or when or where?--he offers us, the way he did at Emmaus, the bread of life, offers us new hope, a new vision of light that not even the dark world can overcome.
— Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons
the star that I was wishingthe light that I was kissingsitting back and reminiscing that night, it was missing.
— Lokesh Fouzdar
For some, memories are a blessing. They give one something to look at and cherish in dark times. For some, memories are a curse. They give one pain, guilt, and sorrow. But for all, memories make up who we are now.
— Taylor Chackowsky
How was the light today?”“Big. Hot. Yellow-white. The sky’s blue was like a drumbeat. I watched the black tree shadows revolve. When the sun went down it was like someone’s hand was pulling it, very gently. It was soft-edged and orange. The land went purple, then dark blue and grey, then black. Then you opened your eyes.
— Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live
You're the light that shines on the dark places of my soul
— Noelle  Adams, Salvation
I am light. I am not my age, I am not my race; my soul inside is all light. I am light.
— India Arie
There is light in the shadow just as there is shadow in the light and although many disclaim these shadows as everything unpleasant in the world, it cannot be so, it is not so. Just as there is beauty in the light, the shadow hold it's own muted allure and of both shades, there are songs and dances and revelry and sorrow. They are one and the same, different sides of the same coin, a mirror image looking at itself. The only thing that sets them apart, and will continue to divide these two spectrums, is our perception of the 'fact' that one is light and one is shadow.
— Kensi Brianne Smith
Queer, how her own desperate need of light seemed to throw such brilliance over the affairs of the members of her family. She carried her need like a many-batteried pocket spotlight, illuminating emotional corners in other people, but she walked in darkness behind it. Her wrist wouldn't bend to turn it on herself.
— Helen R. Hull, Heat Lightning
It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on.
— Julien Torma, 4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché
I pressed my dark issues to the back of my mind and smiled a slight untruthful happiness . . .
— Bethany Anne Miller, Forever Stuck
Be under the broad day light and act rightly
—  go into the dark night and do the same thing. Never let what you do in light and darkness mis-match. That’s a good character of leadership!
Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
Your sight takes you where there is light... But your visions can take you through the dark places! Maintain your sight, but add your visions!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
She draws back, yet refuses to lose skin contact. Golden light flickers across his face. He is the night, the stars. His soul shines so brightly, she could pour it into a jar, and it’d be as bright as the sun.
— Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls
The darkness surrounding can envelop one,but if you light only one match, you have defeated it all.
— M.I.M. Răphæl
You might be surrounded in a room of utter darkness, but if you light only one match, all the darkness is defeated.
— Michelle Ivezic
Be comforted! If there are people who can't stand to be around you, just remember that darkness hates light and deceit hates truth.
— Alisa Hope Wagner
They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving.
— Raymond Carver, Cathedral
Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be.
— Charles de Lint, Spiritwalk
It was never the poverty that deterred me, never the disease, unsanitary conditions, bugs or garbage, those things were never even a thought in my head as a reason for not staying. I kept looking for the good and always found it each day. I was happy on the reservation.It would have all worked out if Chief could have been a little nicer to me. The only thing I was missing was love and respect from my partner. Maybe he had changed.
— Little White Bird, The Dark Horse Speaks
she has cratersbut only a fool can deny her beauty.She silently stare sun whole night& reflects his lighthis love with stars at times.
— Lokesh Fouzdar
There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce. But most of all, there is very nearly nothing in the dark; except for little bits here and there, often associated with the light, this infinite receptacle is empty.This picture is strangely frightening. It should be familiar. It is our universe.Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are, as sand, as dust, or less than dust, in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing. Nothing! We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s Pensées and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between wo
— Carl Sagan
With the change of the seasons, God reminds us that darkness always ends. Light always exists and will always return when missing. There is no night that doesn’t end. No nightmare from which you cannot awaken. No hurt that cannot heal.
— Sharon Bayliss, Destruction
Morning came in through the blinds cutting everything into ribbons.
— Amber Dawn, Sub Rosa
It dims the brightest spirit, to stare into the dark.
— Julie E. Czerneda, A Turn of Light
Don't be afraid of the darkLook insideGrab your heartLet it shineIf it's dark outsideShine your light
— Will.i.am
Here upon earth there is life, and then death,Dawn, and later nightfall,Fire, and the quenching of embers:But why should I not remember that my night is dawn in another part of the world,If the idea fits my fancy?
— John Gould Fletcher, Irradiations; Sand and Spray
Whatever you do well in the darkness tells more about who you are than what you do best in light. Watch out!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
All that helter-skelter about strings and memories was only relevant in the dark. It was light out now and time to put away childish things.
— Benjamin Brindise
Let a clear understanding of your identity In Christ shed light on all the ways you can live out your purpose.
— Elizabeth George
We do not believe that light exists in spite of darkness. We believe that light exists because of it.
— Sharon Bayliss, Destruction
The curse that came before history has laid on us all a tendency to be weary of wonders. If we saw the sun for the first time it would be the most fearful and beautiful of meteors. Now that we see it for the hundredth time we call it, in the hideous and blasphemous phrase of Wordsworth, "the light of common day." We are inclined to increase our claims. We are inclined to demand six suns, to demand a blue sun, to demand a green sun. Humility is perpetually putting us back in the primal darkness. There all light is lightning, startling and instantaneous. Until we understand that original dark, in which we have neither sight nor expectation, we can give no hearty and childlike praise to the splendid sensationalism of things.
— G.K. Chesterton
Do good even if no one is watching you and do it as if everyone is watching you.
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Millions of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the lifespan of that single candle will never be shortened! Feel free to share your success stories with every loved one out there
—  it will strengthen them but will never weaken you in any way.
As I went through the city by dayI saw shadows in sunlight
— But in the night I saw everywhereStars within the darkness.
At least when it comes to light pollution what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas.
— Paul Bogard
The truth is the object of our lustBut the light is still so very dim…
— Andrea Barbosa, Holes in Space - a poetry collection
And God said: Let there be light, and there was light." Lena opened her eyes, feeling as if someone had been reading this verse out loud in the room. She looked around. Another morning dawned, and the sky glowed. Why did God say the word light out loud? Wasn’t it enough for him just to think of light for there to be light? And did he summon the light to one specific place? Or only to some places? Perhaps he summoned the light everywhere. Her eyes followed the sun’s beams that poured through the shutter slats, creating luminous flecks of gold that sparkled against the cabinet across from her. Tiny motes floated in the light and disappeared in the dark. Who did God created the light for?
— Gala.J
Dark night lay on my eyes, like a veil of black cloves - dust on my feet, at the beginning of the path of knowledge.Tracer from an invisible hand, a rainbow, fell in my thoughts - I encountered the truth; and truth shall be my light until the end of days.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, The Seven Deadly Sins
Live your life in such a way that when a video coverage is taken of you either in light or in the darkness, it can receive an applause when it is shown in your chapel for everyone to view!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Beware the knowledge thou seek, for knowledge though oft light, can sow the seeds of night and reap from the darkness that ensues"- 1654
— Esmerelda Jane Forstine
The darkness was the foundation that everything else was built on. The garden where the universe grew. The simplest, most basic thing in existence. And it was spectacular.
— Sharon Bayliss, Destruction
I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place whereeverything I’ve ever known is coming apart. I know some things—I know that I’m not alone, that I have friends, that I’m in love. I know where I came from. I know that I don’t want to die, and for me, that’s something—more than I could have said a few weeks ago.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
It's the colors that will make you stray. They sing to you, the not-blue and the searing light, and no matter how tightly you tie yourself to the inbetween, eventually you will break free.No one swims only in the shallow water.
— Betsy Cornwell, Tides
If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want.
— Ashok  Kallarakkal
By death the moon was gathered in Long ago, ah long ago;Yet still the silver corpse must spinAnd with another's light must glow.Her frozen mountains must forgetTheir primal hot volcanic breath,Doomed to revolve for ages yet,Void amphitheatres of death.And all about the cosmic sky,The black that lies beyond our blue,Dead stars innumerable lie,And stars of red and angry hueNot dead but doomed to die.
— Julian Huxley, The Captive Shrew and other poems of a Biologist
Here is a boy who was waiting to be punished. But then, unexpectedly,he ¯nds that his fault has been overlooked or forgiven and at once the worldreappears in brilliant colors, full of delightful prospects. Here is a soldier whowas waiting, with a heavy heart, to su®er and die in battle. But suddenlythe luck has changed. There is news! The war is over and everyone burstsout singing! He will go home after all! The sparrows in the plowland werecrouching in terror of the kestrel. But she has gone; and they °y pell-mell upthe hedgerow, frisking, chattering and perching where they will.
— Richard Adams, Watership Down
There are boneswaiting for names in the graveyards.Even the sun above us is dying, onelanded repetition of light at a time.
— Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless
Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.
— Luther Burbank, The Harvest Of The Years
The clear light of science teaches us that we must be our own saviors, if we are to be found worth saving.
— Luther Burbank, The Harvest Of The Years
Do you know how,sometimes, when you first wake up,your pulse is so thorough, so slow,that you, and the one who is with you, and the room, and the opening light all seem to swelland subside and swell inside your heart?
— Jennifer Clarvoe, Invisible Tender
They themselves do not see the world of light as we do, but our shapes cast shadows in their minds, which only the noon sun destroys.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Strange how seeing the light can make a person feel so alone in the darkness
— Jackson Pearce, Sisters Red
And now we come to the Heart of our Designe: the art of Shaddowes you must know well, Walter, and you must be instructed how to Cast them with due Care. It is only the Darknesse that can give trew Forme to our Work and trew Perspective to our Fabrick, for there is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe (and I turn this Thought over in my Mind: what Life is there which is not a Portmanteau of Shaddowes and Chimeras?). I build in the Day to bring News of the Night and of Sorrowe, I continued, and then I broke off for Walter's sake.
— Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
The world has two faces :The day or the bright moment whenwe naturally stay alive (awake).The night or the dark moment whenwe naturally remain dead (sleep).
— Rohan Nath
If freedom rings, then bondage bombs.
— Anthony Liccione
Hell in life indicates a state of suffering, of agony, of torture (by others, by circumstances, or by ourselves), and of insipid colors and little joy. Hell is a heavy vibration that drags us spiraling down from the highest to the lowest, darkest vibrations..
— Jacqueline Ripstein, The Art of HealingArt: The Keys to Power and Awareness
Light - both physical and moral - was a central concern to the men and women living in the medieval age. They attempted to explore its properties in the colors of a stained glass canopy, in the tenor of a brisk saltarello, in the lilt of a Jongleur's ballad, in the sweet savor of a banqueting table, in the rhapsody of a well planned garden, indeed, in every arena and discipline of life.
— Douglas Wilson Douglas Jones
Did you notice the light that lit up the entire world?Did you feel itsfascination pressing againstyour heart?While the tingling,vibrant emotion itprojected caught all the principles of love and handed down in a miraculous way all the valuesof life.
— Calvin W. Allison, A Peace in the Spirit
God is the only book that can never be touched, open and seen.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't feel sad. The only certain thing in life... is death itself. She's free from her body and her soul is ready to take on another new life, so she can continue on until she becomes light, just like the stars.
— Grace Fiorre, The Nothing Spirit: Nothing is Everything
I'm not telling you to be quiet. I'm just saying that if you speak a little softer, we both might just hear what peace sounds like.
— Noor Iskandar
Full spectrum lights should be used in all daytime offices for good health.
— Steven Magee
I’d be glad to go out on a limb with thoseWho want nothing beyond what the wind bestows,Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bearNever being done grasping for light and air
— X.J. Kennedy, Dark Horses: New Poems
Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?
— Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
Love lights our darkness. It is forever tries.
— Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
For excellent health and a good skin color, I recommend that people sit next to a shady ultraviolet transmitting window when indoors.
— Steven Magee
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. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.
— Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts--such is the duty of the artist.
— Robert Schumann
Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed.
— Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe
Music is about bringing light to others.
— Avi Kaplan Pentatonix
There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: ferocity on a scale only gods can summon. It hurls itself at the island, sending spray right over the top of the lighthouse, biting pieces off the cliff. And the sound is a roaring of a beast whose anger knows no limits. Those are the nights the light is needed most.
— M. L. Stedman - The Light Between Oceans
as architect of choosing...choose. to. live.awakened. entirely. wholly.wildly powerful, deeply masterful, authentically creative,thriving. this is not a hoped-for possible self.[reminder: this is an immutable Law of your being]needing not to learn the skill of being whole, the antidote is to unlearn the habit of living incompletelyhere’s the practice:‘know thyself‘—its about spirit righteousness is underratedelevate connection with the changeless essenceseek similitude with the will of Source and will of self'choose thyself'—its about substancesacred. sagacious. spacious.in thought, word and deed—intend to: honor virtue. innovate enthusiastically. master integrity.'become who you are'—its about style a human, being an entrepreneur of life experiencesa human, being a purveyor of preferencesbeing-well with the known experience of soul, in serviceyour relationship with insecurities, contradictions, & failures?obstacles or...invitations to grow?[mindset forms manifestation]emotions are messengers are giftsdata for discernment: dare to deconstruct them your fearsa belief renovation: fear.less. & aspire towards ascendance, anywaysupport your shinelean into the Lightbe.come.incandescentas architect of choosing, I choose... to disrupt the energy of the status quo,to eclipse the realms of ordinary,& to live--a life-well lived.w/ spirit, substance & style.
— LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier
At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities?
— Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe
The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory… without emptiness.
— Allie Burke, Paper Souls
The next time that something seemingly bad happens to you, look for the divine in it. Look for the soul in the mundane, every day occurrences of your life. Look for the spark, look for the light.
— Leigh Hershkovich
Information and ignorance are like light and darkness... When light comes into your room, darkness must fly away. When information rules your mind, ignorance finds its way out!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Until people learn to love others more than they love to hate others, not much will change in this world.
— Rob Liano
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.
— Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
God created… light anddark, heaven and hell—science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite.“Including matter itself, antimatter
— Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
The boy I fell madly in love with – the boy made entirely of goodness and light – has been snuffed out by the bloodthirsty creature that glowers before me.
— Alyson Noel, Horizon
Why at the beginning of things is there always light? Dorrigo Evans' earliest memories were of sun flooding a church hall in which he sat with his mother and grandmother. A wooden church hall. Blinding light and him toddling back and forth, in and out of its transcendent welcome, into the arms of women. Women who loved him. Like entering the sea and returning to the beach. Over and over.
— Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
People are idiots, Choo. Always remmber that: people are faithless, backstabbing, weak, creepy, stupid, lazy idiots.
— Michael  Grant
I pity him who refuses to leave the minatory of his refutable Judgments and still insisting on producing his light to lit our worlds.
— Annie Ali
If it was the warmth of the sun, and not its light, that produced this operation, it would follow, that, by warming the water near the fire about as much as it would have been in the sun, this very air would be produced; but this is far from being the case..
— Jan Ingenhousz, Experiments upon vegetables
The color of the emitted light depends on the relative heights of the starting and ending energy levels. A crash between closely spaced levels (such as two and one) releases a pulse of low-energy reddish light, while a crash between more widely spaced levels (say, five and two) releases high-energy purple light.
— Sam Kean, The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
It's always darkest before you're blinded by the light
— Josh Stern
How many times did the sun shine, how many times did the wind howl over the desolate tundras, over the bleak immensity of the Siberian taigas, over the brown deserts where the Earth’s salt shines, over the high peaks capped with silver, over the shivering jungles, over the undulating forests of the tropics! Day after day, through infinite time, the scenery has changed in imperceptible features. Let us smile at the illusion of eternity that appears in these things, and while so many temporary aspects fade away, let us listen to the ancient hymn, the spectacular song of the seas, that has saluted so many chains rising to the light.
— Emile Argand, Tectonics of Asia