Lit Quotes - Page 19

• Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

  Peter Porter

  Language, Poetry Is

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• Chanting just hits you and you want to be a part of it. That’s the point of this whole thing. That’s what cuts through all the ‘stuff’. You get lit up. You don’t have to know what it means.

  Krishna Das

  Mean, Cutting, Want

  FaceBook post by Krishna Das from Mar 20, 2017

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• When I'm naked, I really like to do push-ups. No. I think I really tackle it like everything else. If you're going to commit yourself to playing something, you have to be able to understand it. If you can understand it, then you can do it and go balls out with it. But, I've never been in a position where I've been like, "This doesn't feel right." I wouldn't do it, if it was that. I like the shock value of it. I think that, if you use it correctly, it's pretty effective, as long as I'm lit really, really, really well.

  Charlize Theron

  Thinking, Long, Naked

  Source: collider.com

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• Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches talk about having evidence of Divine authority because they have miracles. Miracles in our time are like candles in the street at midday. We do not want miracles. They are to teach men how to find out truths themselves; and after they have learned this, they no more need them than a well man needs a staff, or a grown-up child needs a walking-stool.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Men, Miracle

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.249

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• Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of himself in the various mirrors in the house - the mirror in the bathroom or the mirror in his bedroom, still lit from above by a single accusatory light bulb - are almost appallingly raw.

  Andrew Graham-Dixon

  Powerful, Self, Mirrors

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• As each one of us awakens, it is like a light going on, followed by another light, another light, and another light. The darkness of human unconsciousness is slowly, gradually and gently lit, until there comes a day when there is more light than dark, more consciousness than unconsciousness , more joy than pain, ...more truth than illusion. That would indeed be a day for celebration.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Pain, Dark, Light

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• Now we have lit a candle to the power Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light Itself.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Light, Atoms, Heirs

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• I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.

  Juno Temple

  Crazy, Phones, Light

  "Juno Temple Talks LITTLE BIRDS, Sexuality vs. Violence in Film, and Playing a Fairy in MALEFICENT" by Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Hitherto without being; hidden away in the womb of eternity; possessed neither of thought nor feeling; remote from the range of human ken -- the Man bursts, in some unknown manner, the bars of non-existence, and announces with a cry the beginning of his brief life. In the night of non-existence there bursts forth also a little candle, lit by an unseen hand. Mark well its flame: for it is the life of that Man.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Night, Men, Flames

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• Going to high school in rural Florida, we always partied down in the woods. Somebody - one of the rednecks - would leave class and mow a path out to a field, and we'd drive out there. Dude, every party I went to was lit by a bonfire. Acoustic guitar.

  Miles Teller

  Party, School, Redneck

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Writing, Names

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• I’m imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles - we have them in our homes and cherish their light, but don’t light our homes with them. Readers of Lincoln’s era would likely be surprised at how well-lit our homes are, and I think it’s likely that we will be surprised at how well-read future book readers will be.

  Steve Leveen

  Book, Home, Thinking

  "Seven Ways Electronic Books Will Make Us Better Readers" by Steve Leveen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2010.

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• People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit.

  Mac Anderson

  Motivation, People, Achievement

  Mac Anderson (2015). “You Can't Send a Duck to Eagle School: And Other Simple Truths of Leadership”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2014). “BKS Iyengar Yoga The Path to Holistic Health”, p.35, Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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• Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another...The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.

  M. Scott Peck

  Journey, Self, Answers

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• Love is the song of the soul singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Love, Song, Moon

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1980). “Self-realization”

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• Hard to believe lightning can strike twice, but it surely did. The moment Caitriona Balfe came on screen, I sat up straight and said, ‘There she is!’ She and Sam Heughan absolutely lit up the screen with fireworks.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Believe, Lightning, Moments

  "Ron Moore's 'Outlander' Sets Female Lead" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 11, 2013.

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• That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.

  Nichiren

  Buddhist, Kindness, Helping Others

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• I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Heart, Persistence, Fire

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