Illumination Quotes

• Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

  August Wilson

  Inspirational, Strength, Forgiveness

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• Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Light, Shadow

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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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• Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

  Bryant H. McGill

  Fire, Darkness, Mind

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• Listen my love, illumination is eternal. Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As there are billions of souls, there are billions of ways to grow.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• You are the instrument of your own illumination.

  Vivian Gornick

  Instruments

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• Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Heart, Light

  "A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, translated by P. Sekirin, (November 26), 1997.

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• If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

  Elif Safak

  Past, Mind, Want

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• There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Time, People

  Diary entries, 1943.

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• Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Love, Humble, Simple

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• A glimmer of light is better than no illumination at all.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Light

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 52), February 26, 1964.

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• Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Discovery, Ideas, Light

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• Illumination is nothing if you do not share it with anyone. Illumination is about spreading light across entire nations. It's about wearing that crown that shines like the sun on your head and getting other minds to synergize with yours.

  Suzy Kassem

  Light, Shining, Mind

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• And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Inspirational, Happiness, Mean

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• Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

  Henri Matisse

  Inspirational, Happiness, Work

  Henri Matisse (1992). “Jazz”, George Braziller

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• The past is an interpretation. The future is on illusion. The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead, time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness. If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense. The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Spiritual, Single Mom, Moving

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• People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Light, Order, People

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• The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Education, Reading, Passion

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• History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

  Lord Acton

  Memories, Soul, Burden

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• Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dark, Car, Mind

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• Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

  Werner Herzog

  Mistake, Facts, Norm

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• The only church that illuminates is a burning church.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Funny, Religious, Humorous

  "The Monstrosity of Christ : Paradox or Dialectic?". Book by Creston Davis, 2009.

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• Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.

  Henri Poincare

  Long, Firsts, Appearance

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