Lamps Quotes

• If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

  Gautama Buddha

  Truth, Buddhism, Helping Others

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• Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Darkness

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2009). “Becoming Enlightened”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Darkness

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.154, Vintage

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• No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.

  Paulo Coelho

  Beauty, Eye, Doors

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• Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

  Tertullian

  Patience, Hope, Lit

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• We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us.

  Catherine McAuley

  Light, Giving, Shining

  Catherine McAuley (2017). “A Shining Lamp: The Oral Instructions of Catherine McAuley”, p.8, CUA Press

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• All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.

  Kabir

  Heart, Darkness, Saws

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• Lamps are different, but light is the same.

  Rumi

  Light, Unity, Different

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• The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things.

  Rumi

  Light, Mind, Energy

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.112, Shambhala Publications

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• I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Art, Pieces, Rooms

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• Be lamps unto yourselves; be your own confidence. Hold truth within yourselves.

  Gautama Buddha

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• Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.

  Gautama Buddha

  Shelter, Refuge

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• Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.

  Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad

  Heart, Reflection, Light

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• If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Motherhood, Burning Heart

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• To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Friendship, Faith, Inspiration

  1975 In Time, 29 Dec.

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• Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

  Edgar Degas

  Photography, Atmosphere, Daylight

  Edgar Degas, Jean Sutherland Boggs (1988). “Degas [exposition]”, p.535, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.

  Austin O'Malley

  Mind, Reason, Used

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• Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Confidence, Yoga, Yoga And Life

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• A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

  Andres Segovia

  Patience, Men, Oil

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• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Death, Rest In Peace

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• When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Lying, Clouds, Light

  'Lines: When the lamp'

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• An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Light, Fling, Sentences

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.70

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• Be a lamp unto yourself.

  Gautama Buddha

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• The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Fire, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.912, Delphi Classics

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• It takes oil to keep the lamps burning.

  Mother Teresa

  Oil, Burning

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