Lighthouse Quotes

• To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Strong, Powerful, Loneliness

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• Friends are like Lighthouses, with the sources of light coming from their hearts.

  Tom Baker

  Heart, Light, Source

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• We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Wisdom, Easter

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• I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Thinking, Edifice

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• At some time, often when we least expect it, we all have to face overwhelming challenges. When the unthinkable happens, the lighthouse is hope. Once we find it, we must cling to it with absolute determination. When we have hope, we discover powers within ourselves we may have never known- the power to make sacrifices, to endure, to heal, and to love. Once we choose hope, everything is possible.

  Christopher Reeve

  Determination, Sacrifice, Challenges

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• A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home.

  Lea Michele

  Home, People, Ships

  "Lea Michele Opens Up About Life After Cory" by Lizzy Goodman, www.elle.com. November 30, 2013.

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• Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

  Anne Lamott

  Running, Commitment, Acceptance

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.236, Anchor

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• A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thinking, Light, Giving

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• If you open your eyes very wide and look around you carefully, you will always see a lighthouse which will lead you to the right path! Just watch around you carefully!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eye, Watches, Looks

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• Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

  Charles Simic

  Perspective, Ships, Bottles

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• Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Night, Men, Shining

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• Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.

  Vernon Howard

  Rain, Self, Wind

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• She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!

  Henry James

  Darkness, Revolving, Dazzling

  Henry James (2016). “Henry James: The Complete Novels [The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, etc.] (Book House)”, p.750, Book House

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• A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Book, Dark

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• For nothing was simply one thing.

  Virginia Woolf

  One Thing

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.376, Wordsworth Editions

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• If you are a lighthouse, you cannot hide yourself; if you hide yourself, you cannot be a lighthouse!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ifs

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• A True Friend who leaves heart felt messages, can be a lighthouse to others, sharing light and truth, which comes from their heart.

  Tom Baker

  True Friend, Heart, Light

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• Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Strong, Dark, Night

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• Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Spiritual, Religious, Atheist

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Barren, Coast, Harbors

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• He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home.

  Jamie O'Neill

  Love, Home, Night

  Jamie O'Neill (2002). “At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

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• It's about how you're like a lighthouse, always searching far into the distance. But the thing you're looking for is usually close to you and always has been. That's why you have to look within yourself to find answers instead of searching beyond.

  Susane Colasanti

  Distance, Insightful, Looks

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Waiting For You”, p.162, Penguin

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• The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dark, Illumination, Miracle

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.361, Wordsworth Editions

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• Open your eyes and look around carefully at the moments when you think you have failed, because the lighthouse of the success mysteriously appears amongst the fog at those very moments!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eye, Thinking, Fog

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• A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Dangerous, Fallen, Reefs

  "At last!; More Lance Cairns; and Less Navjot Sidhu" by Lawrence Booth, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2003.

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