Light Quotes - Page 16

• All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light.

  Margot Asquith

  Fire, Mind, Housemaids

  Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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• Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright
  With joy the spirit moves and burns;
  So up to thee! O Fount of Light!
  Our light returns.

  John Sterling

  Moving, Joy, Earth

  John Sterling (1842). “The Poetical Works of John Sterling”, p.127

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• Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!

  Boethius

  God, Eye, Giving

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• Hand
  Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
  And great hearts expand
  And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

  Robert Browning

  Friendship, Eye, Heart

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.159, Wildside Press LLC

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• I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.

  Helen Keller

  Silence, Darkness, Rays

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• ... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping hare is caught in a marble panel.) A glaze is put over life. There is no flaw, no crack in the surface; a still reservoir, no ripple on its face. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. The waterfalls seemed frozen solid; the tops of the trees were still; the river hardly stirred, a serpent gently moving under its shimmering skin.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Morning, Moving, Air

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• Humility is the light of the understanding.

  John Bunyan

  Humility, Understanding

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• If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fall, Men, Dust

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.

  John Dryden

  Men, Heaven, Luck

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