Flash Quotes - Page 23

• Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments of ecstasy and also dullness, mindless distraction and acute concentration, flashes of joy and bouts of irritation. In other words, prayer has features in common with all relationships that matter.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Believe, Irritation

  Philip Yancey (1995). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.298, Harper Collins

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone has ever seen. It blasted; it pounced; it bored its way into you. It was a vision which was seen with more than the eye. It was seen to last forever. You would wish it would stop; altogether it lasted about two seconds.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Eye, Science, Thinking

  Isidor Isaac Rabi (1970). “Science: the center of culture”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Communication, Lightning, Genius

  Richard Chenevix Trench (1867). “On the Study of Words Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training-school, Winchester by Richard Chenevix Trench”, p.24

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• We live in a flash of light; evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.

  Anthony de Mello

  Night, Light, Worry

  5 Copy quote

• You're not very nice," I say, grinning. "You're one to talk." "Hey, I could be nice if I tried." "Hmm." He taps his chin. "Say something nice, then." "You're very good-looking." He smiles, his teeth a flash in this dark. "I like this 'nice' thing.

  Veronica Roth

  Nice, Dark, Teeth

  Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.17, HarperCollins

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight!

  William Carlos Williams

  Sunset, Dark, Night

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

  Walter Benjamin

  Time, Past, Instant

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Humble, Light

  Phillips Brooks (1881). “The Candle of the Lord: And Other Sermons”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ideas, Mind, Labor

  5 Copy quote

• I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Believe, Long, Perception

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you from that state - your compulsive habits, outmoded beliefs, false associations, and other mental structures. Just when our lives are starting to get better, we may feel like things are getting worse - because for the first time we see clearly what needs to be done.

  Dan Millman

  Spiritual, Get Better, Enlightenment

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.15, H J Kramer

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• True love always happens in a flash.

  Stephen King

  Love, Happens, Inspirational Love

  Stephen King (2002). “From a Buick 8”, Scribner

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having...if not died, then having given up her life. It wasn't fair. "Life's not fair," said Ginnie, as if I had spoken aloud.

  Neil Gaiman

  Trying, Needs, Alive

  6 Copy quote

• Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Reflection, Psychics

  7 Copy quote

• I was the one small brunete among tall blondes. You only get one body, might as well love it. Nothing is the end of the world. Flash forward a year and ask, "Is this really going to be that big of a deal? In the long run, it's really not".

  Lucy Hale

  Running, Years, Long

  13 Copy quote

• A smile is nature's best antidote for discouragement. It brings rest to the weary, sunshine to those who are frowning, and hope to those who are hopeless and defeated. A smile is so valuable that it can't be bought, begged, borrowed, or taken away against your will. You have to be willing to give a smile away before it can do anyone else any good. So if someone is too tired or grumpy to flash you a smile, let him have one of yours anyway. Nobody needs a smile as much as the person who has none to give.

  Dale Carnegie

  Hope, Taken, Tired

  30 Copy quote

• The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Thinking, Forget Everything

  "Meditation and Its Methods".

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Where there is truth, there is also light, but don't confuse light with the flash.

  Pope Francis

  Light

  4 Copy quote

• Time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible whole, a great pool in which all events are eternally embodied and still have their meaningful flash of supernormal or extra - sensory perception, and glimpse of something that happened long ago in our linear time.

  Frank Waters

  Meaningful, Time, Past

  Frank Waters (1999). “Mountain Dialogues”, Swallow Press

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiration, Knowledge, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.

  William Cowper

  Fire, Joy, Heaven

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.264

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Lock yourself up in your room or go out in the woods where you an be alone. When you are alone the universe talks to you in flashes of inspiration.

  Walter Russell

  Inspiration, Secret, Locks

  17 Copy quote

• Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Science, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves for the several centuries we need to catch our breath. What is it that enables certain flowers to resemble nubile insects, or opossums to play dead, or female fireflies to change the code of their flashes in order to attract, and then eat, males of a different species?

  Lewis Thomas

  Truth, Lying, Real

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The big homie use a flash if you must. And I swear I aint askin for much.

  Drake

  Humble, Use, Bigs

  4 Copy quote