Darkness To Light Quotes - Page 2

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Truth, Intelligent, Light

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

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• There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

  James Thurber

  Inspirational, Life, Light

  "Lanterns and Lances‎". Book by James Thurber, p. 146, 1961.

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• There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

  Bram Stoker

  Light, Darkness, Beautiful Books

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• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Faith

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.585, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

  Terry Pratchett

  I Hate You, Science, Dark

  "Criminal Minds: Conflicted". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way."

  Minnie Louise Haskins

  New Year, Fear, Men

  Desert (1908) "God Knows"

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• What makes night within us may leave stars.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Wisdom

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel”, p.79, Mondial

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• While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light

  Jack Kerouac

  Light, Darkness, May

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.79, City Lights Books

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• Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Light Life

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• The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.

  Plato

  Eye, Light, Darkness

  Republic, bk.7, 518c (translated by G M A Grube, revised by C D C Reeve).

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• In the midst of death life persists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Midst, Persist

  Address at Kingsley Hall, delivered 17 October 1931, London

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• Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Fake People, Halloween

  Following the Equator ch. 66, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

  Terry Pratchett

  Light, Darkness, Ankh

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.291, Random House

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• There's a light at the end of the tunnel. And it's a train.

  Margaret Smith

  Positive, Sassy, Tunnels

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• The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Light, Darkness, Sunlight

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• As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

  E. M. Forster

  Moving, Sunshine, Darkness

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.470, Delphi Classics

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• The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Light, Darkness, Shadow

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• Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Patience, Wisdom

  1902 The Story of My Life.

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• Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Confidence, Fear

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspiring, Confidence, Children

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Insecure

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• So shines a good deed... in a weary world.

  Gene Wilder

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Helping Others

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• Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Halloween, Dark

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1817). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and Others”, p.279

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