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Monday, 3 June 2013
Monday, 3 June 2013
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Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow. ☞ Vince Lombardi
We have great managers who haven’t spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that haven’t spent a day in surgical school? ☞ Henry Mintzberg
Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. ☞ Author Unknown
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. ☞ Tony Blair
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ☞ Dwight D. Eisenhower
When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy. ☞ Dave Barry
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. ☞ Anne Bradstreet
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. ☞ Ralph Nader
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. ☞ Charles Simic
Management is nothing more than motivating other people. ☞ Lee Iacocca
There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them. ☞ Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
I am not a labor leader. I don’t want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out. ☞ Eugene V. Debs
To lead the people, walk behind them. ☞ Lao-Tzu
You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership. ☞ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. ☞ Thomas J. Watson
If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach. ☞ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A leader is a dealer in hope. ☞ Napoleon Bonaparte
Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders. ☞ Tom Peters
The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way. ☞ Henry Miller,
If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer. ☞ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,
I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. ☞ Charles Maurice
A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him. ☞ Mark Brouwer
I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people. ☞ Indira Gandhi
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. ☞ Rudy Giuliani
A leader leads by example not by Force. ☞ Sun Tzu
A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. ☞ Golda Meir
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ☞ Theodore Roosevelt
He led his regiment from behind -
He found it less exciting.
But when away his regiment ran,
His place was at the fore, O.
☞ W.S. Gilbert
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. ☞ Eric Hoffer
No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world. ☞ Frances Willard,
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. ☞ Henry Ford
It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong. ☞ Martin H. Fischer
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. ☞ Russell Hoban
You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. ☞ H.G. Wells
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ☞ Dudley Field Malone
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. ☞ Thomas Szasz
I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets. ☞ Bernard Keble Sandwell
Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later. ☞ Dana Stewart Scott
His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken. ☞ H.G. Wells
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ☞ Alvin Toffler
Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating. ☞ Robert Brault
Learning without thought is labor lost. ☞ Confucius
The pupil can only educate himself. Teachers are the custodians of apparatus upon which he himself must turn and twist to acquire the excellencies that distinguish the better from the poorer of God’s vessels. ☞ Martin H. Fischer
The best of my education has come from the public library… my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don’t need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library. ☞ Lesley Conger
The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. ☞ Henry S. Haskins
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. ☞ Lloyd Alexander
You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way. ☞ Marvin Minsky
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. ☞ John Lubbock
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. ☞ Chinese Proverb
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong. ☞ Bill Vaughan
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ☞ Clay P. Bedford
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. ☞ Henry L. Doherty
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. ☞ Eartha Kitt
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. ☞ Attributed to Harry S. Truman
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ☞ Chinese Proverb
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. ☞ Paul Eldridge
When the student is ready, the master appears. ☞ Buddhist Proverb
Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. ☞ Vilfredo Pareto
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ☞ Jacob Bronowski
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. ☞ Mark Twain
Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ☞ Oliver Wendell Holmes
You learn something every day if you pay attention. ☞ Ray LeBlond
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. ☞ Antisthenes
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. ☞ Alexander Pope
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ☞ Thomas Huxley
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ☞ Abbé Dimnet,
I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. ☞ Abraham Lincoln
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. ~Agnes Repplier
The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. ~ Arthur Lacey
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men’s taste and capacity to live it, has disappeared. Leisure [has become] entertainment. ~ Allan Bloom
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Leisure: A fancy word for people who don’t want to admit they’re bored. ~ Gene Perret
If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul. ~ Logan P. Smith
I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. ~ Comte de Mirabeau
Leisure tends to corrupt, and absolute leisure corrupts absolutely. ~ Edgar A. Shoaff
We seldom enjoy leisure we haven’t earned. ~ Quoted in
A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been. ~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. ~ Aristotle
Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. ☞ Lord Byron
What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp. ☞ Author Unknown
It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. ☞ Elizabeth Drew
And none will hear the postman’s knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
☞ W.H. Auden
The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. ☞ William Shenstone
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can’t reread a phone call. ☞ Liz Carpenter
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. ☞ John Donne
Or don’t you like to write letters. I do because it’s such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you’ve done something. ☞ Ernest Hemingway
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment! ☞ Douglas Jerrold,
Friends will write me letters. They run out of room on the front of the letter. They write "over" on the bottom of the letter. Like I’m that much of a moron. Like I need that there. Because if it wasn’t there, I’d get to the bottom of the page: "And so Kathy and I went shopping and we…" That’s the craziest thing! I don’t know why she would just end it that way. ☞ Ellen DeGeneres
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. ☞ Lord Byron
There must be millions of people all over the world who never get any love letters… I could be their leader. ☞ Charlie Brown
In a man’s letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives. ☞ Samuel Johnson
The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for. ☞ Jane Austen
My songs are just little letters to me. ☞ Ani Difranco
Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends. ☞ Bob Garfield
I am tired, Beloved,
of chafing my heart against
the want of you;
of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.
☞ Amy Lowell
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors. ☞ Mignon McLaughlin,
The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters. ☞ Svetlana Alliluyeva
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others. ☞ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. ☞ Sydney Smith
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. ☞ Henry David Thoreau,
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. ☞ Emily Dickinson
The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u. ☞ Anna Quindlen
A woman seldom writes her Mind, but in her Postscript. ☞ Richard Steele,
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket. ☞ Elbert Hubbard
The talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female. ☞ Henry Tilney
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. ☞ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Grammar is the grave of letters. ☞ Elbert Hubbard
When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter. ☞ Francis Bacon, "Of Cunning,"
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires… ☞ Elizabeth Hardwick
Then there’s the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again. ☞ Lady Bird Johnson
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived. ☞ Knut Hamsun
A woman’s best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. ☞ Lawrence Durrell
If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don’t. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing. ☞ Edward Bulwer Lytton
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. ☞ Friedrich Nietzsche
Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one! ☞ John A. MacDonald
I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to – no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve! ☞ Catharine M. Sedgwick
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. ☞ D.H. Lawrence
I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged to reply to them. ☞ Washington Irving
A Letter is a Joy of Earth -
It is denied the Gods
☞ Emily Dickinson
His sayings are generally like women’s letters; all the pith is in the postscript. ☞ William Hazlitt
O ay, letters – I had letters – I am persecuted with letters – I hate letters – nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has ‘em, one does not know why – they serve one to pin up one’s hair. ☞ William Congreve,
Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies."
Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse…. I never pin up my hair with prose."
☞ William Congreve,
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely. ☞ Pam Brown
In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God’s name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever. ☞ Walt Whitman
Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately. ☞ Lord Chesterfield
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. ☞ Walt Whitman
In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people’s lives. ☞ Anatole Broyard
To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage. ☞ George Washington
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. ☞ Phyllis Theroux
Never write a letter while you are angry. ☞ Chinese Proverb
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. ☞ Jacques Barzun,
My books are very few, but then the world is before me – a library open to all – from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me – in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. ☞ Joseph Howe
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ☞ Jorge Luis Borges
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. ☞ Andrew Carnegie
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age. ☞ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Books,"
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ☞ Samuel Johnson
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. ☞ Charles Lamb,
No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures that never cloy. ☞ John Alfred Landford
Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed. ☞ Charles Medawar
For him that stealeth a Book from this Library, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with Palsy, and all his Members blasted. Let him languish in Pain crying aloud for Mercy and let there be no sur-cease to his Agony till he sink in Dissolution. Let Bookworms gnaw his Entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his final Punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him for ever and aye. ☞ Curse Against Book Stealers
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. ☞ Shelby Foote
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark…. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ☞ Germaine Greer
There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out. ☞ Tom Masson
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. ☞ Richard Powers
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one. ☞ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. ☞ Lemony Snicket
Th’ first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr’m time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th’ shelf is th’ main thing. ☞ Finley Peter Dunne
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one’s devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas – a place where history comes to life. ☞ Norman Cousins
A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone. ☞ Jo Godwin
Nutrimentum spiritus (food for the soul). ☞ Berlin Royal Library
Shera’s Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging. ☞ Jesse Shera
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries. ☞ Carl Sagan,
What is more important in a library than anything else – than everything else – is the fact that it exists. ☞ Archibald MacLeish, "The Premise of Meaning,"
Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul. ☞ Library at Thebes
A library is thought in cold storage. ☞ Herbert Samuel
The best of my education has come from the public library… my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don’t need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library. ☞ Lesley Conger
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off. ☞ Barbara Kingsolver
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. ☞ Lady Bird Johnson
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her. ☞ Erma Bombeck
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. ☞ John Lubbock
A library is but the soul’s burial-ground. It is the land of shadows. ☞ Henry Ward Beecher
To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization. ☞ Timothy Healy
A man’s library is a sort of harem. ☞ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out. ☞ Oliver Wendell Holmes,
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ☞ Cicero
Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use. ☞ William Dyer
Here is where people,
One frequently finds,
Lower their voices
And raise their minds.
☞ Richard Armour
A great library contains the diary of the human race. ☞ George Mercer Dawson
I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air. ☞ Sholem Asch
The richest person in the world – in fact all the riches in the world – couldn’t provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. ☞ Malcolm Forbes
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way around. ☞ David Lodge,
We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning. ☞ Stacy
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and there is a 100% mortality rate. ☞ R.D. Laing
Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. ☞ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
Many of us are equal to life’s emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness. ☞ Mignon McLaughlin,
Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. ☞ James Gibbons Huneker
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. ☞ Ogden Nash
I do like a little bit of butter to my bread. ☞ A.A. Milne,
Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live. ☞ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. ☞ Henry Van Dyke
People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. ☞ Mignon McLaughlin,
Shall I redirect my life’s journey because down some sideroad might be some trifle I’m entitled to? ☞ Robert Brault
Life is a long lesson in humility. ☞ James M. Barrie
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. ☞ Mignon McLaughlin,
Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings." ☞ From the movie
Reason and justice tell me there’s more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. ☞ Anton Chekhov
To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. ☞ Samuel Butler
Life is easier than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. ☞ Kathleen Norris
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ☞ Mark Twain
One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him. ☞ Lemony Snicket
There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes. ☞ José Ortega y Gasset
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. ☞ Peter De Vries,
Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught. ☞ Mignon McLaughlin,
A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure. ☞ Robert Louis Stevenson
I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away. ☞ Antonio Porchia,
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man’s existence. ☞ Joseph Wood Krutch
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ☞ Grandma Moses
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer. ☞ Jim Carrey
Life was a damned muddle – a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of – everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side. ☞ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out. ☞ Anton
Chekhov
Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life. ☞ Antonio Porchia,
Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction. ☞ Robert Brault
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. ☞ W. Somerset Maugham
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. ☞ Henry David Thoreau,
Life is the sum of all your choices. ☞ Albert Camus
Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years. ☞ Antonio Porchia,
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut. ☞ Albert Einstein
I gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organized it all… It is just about over. ☞ Sandra Hochman
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. ☞ Anaïs Nin
Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is. ☞ Robert Brault
[P]erhaps nothing ‘ud be a lesson to us if it didn’t come too late. It’s well we should feel as life’s a reckoning we can’t make twice over; there’s no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right. ☞ George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans),
Only a few things are really important. ☞ Marie Dressler
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay. ☞ Mignon McLaughlin,
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. ☞ Henry Miller
Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little. ☞ Thomas Aloysius Dorgan
Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. ☞ Martin H. Fischer
Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock. ☞ Woody Allen, "My Speech to the Graduates,"
There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically – that there are things we can break that our parents can’t fix. ☞ Robert Brault
Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance. ☞ Antonio Porchia,
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them. ☞ Mignon McLaughlin,
Life’s like a novel with the end ripped out. ☞ Danny Orton and Blair Daly
If you stop struggling, then you stop life. ☞ Huey Newton
Sometimes questions are more important than answers. ☞ Nancy Willard, quoted in
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. ☞ Phillips Brooks
My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark. ☞ Robert Brault
There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life. ☞ William Lyon Phelps
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. ☞ John, Viscount Morley,
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ☞ Erich Fromm
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. ☞ Cary Grant
To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. ☞ Havelock Ellis
Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another. ☞ Author Unknown
My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. ☞ Louis Adamic
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. ☞ Thomas Carlyle,
Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. ☞ Samuel Johnson
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I am with you kid. Let’s go." ☞ Maya Angelou
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ☞ Antoine de Saint-Exupery Why torture yourself when life’ll do it for you? ☞ Author Unknown
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. ☞ George Bernard Shaw,
Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren’t even good for you. ☞ Mignon McLaughlin,
‘Tis all a chequer board of nights and days, Where destiny with men for pieces plays; Hither and thither, and mates, and slays. ☞ Edward Fitzgerald,
Life: It is about the gift not the package it comes in. ☞ Dennis P. Costea
…the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. ☞ Walt Whitman, "O Me! O Life!",
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ☞ Mark Twain
Life is the game that must be played. ☞ Edwin Arlington Robinson
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ☞ Albert Camus
There is no wealth but life. ☞ John Ruskin
I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have. ☞ Rupert Brooke
Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. ☞ Jerome K. Jerome
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ☞ Henry David Thoreau
I’ve learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now. ☞ Robert Brault
I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything, and many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we’re here, and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little bit, but if I can’t figure it out, then I go on to something else. But I don’t have to know an answer…. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn’t frighten me. ☞ Richard Phillips Feynman
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. ☞ Timothy Fuller
The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it. ☞ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We’re looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens. ☞ Jason Q.
It’s just life. Just live it. ☞ Terri Guillemets
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes. ☞ Luigi Pirandello
Life is a shit sandwich. But if you’ve got enough bread, you don’t taste the shit. ☞ Jonathan Winters
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. ☞ Robert Louis Stevenson
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. ☞ H.L. Mencken
Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of. ☞ Agnes’ Law
Chance is always powerful, let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. ☞ Ovid
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up. ☞ Barbara Kingsolver
Life is a series of collisions with the future. ☞ José Ortega y Gasset
To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there’s a tough essay question." ☞ Robert Brault
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. ☞ Marcus Aurelius,
Life is half spent before we know what it is. ☞ George Herbert,
Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you’ll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can’t stand it. ☞ Barbara Kingsolver
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust – we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. ☞ Albert Einstein, in
Jack Palance: "Do you know what the secret of life is? One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don’t mean shit." Billy Crystal: "Yeah, but what’s that one thing?" Jack Palance: "That’s what you’ve got to figure out." ☞ From the movie
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. ☞ Dennis Wholey
Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like. ☞ Author Unknown
Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? ☞ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. ☞ Crowfoot, 1890, as quoted in
Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers? ☞ Jean Anouilh,
God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny. ☞ Garrison Keillor
The meaning of life is not an unquestionable answer; it is an unanswerable question. ☞ Terri Guillemet
Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive. ☞ Mel Brooks
Unbeing dead isn’t being alive. ☞ e.e. cummings
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ☞ Brendan Gill
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash – at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance. ☞ Thomas Merton
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ☞ Hans Christian Anderson
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." ☞ Erma Bombeck
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ☞ Robert Byrne The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ☞ Chinese Proverb
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ☞ Elwyn Brooks White
Life is simple, it’s just not easy. ☞ Author Unknown
A life without cause is a life without effect. ☞ Barbarella
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t. ☞ Richard Bach
Life’s not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow. ☞ Terri Guillemets
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. ☞ Henry David Thoreau,
I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it. ☞ Jack Handey
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. ☞ Christopher Morley,
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me. ☞ Robert Frost
In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular. ☞ Kathy Norris
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ☞ Emily Dickinson
Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant. ☞ Antonio Porchia,
Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit. ☞ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,
My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot. ☞ Ashleigh Brilliant
I say, if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ☞ Bill Watterson,
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. ☞ Quentin Crisp
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ☞ T.S. Eliot,
In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love. ☞ Diego Marchi
I count life just a stuff
To try the soul’s strength on.
☞ Robert Browning
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. ☞ Ashleigh Brilliant
Life is an incurable Disease. ☞ Abraham Cowley
The philosophy of mine earth can be summed up as this: Sunshine creates happiness, and I create myself. Nights are long and life is predominantly good. Wind is refreshing. Tea is wisdom. Do the best you can, and be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others. ☞ Jessi Lane Adams
Human life is purely a matter of deciding what’s important to you. ☞ Anonymous
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. ☞ Albert Camus
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. ☞ Christopher Isherwood
The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy. ☞ Angelina Jolie
The years go by in single file;
But none has merited my fear,
And none has quite escaped my smile.
☞ Elinor Hoyt Wylie,
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. ☞ Reba McEntire
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. ☞ Thomas Carlyle
I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation. ☞ Robert Brault
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ☞ Havelock Ellis
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ☞ Joseph Addison
We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself. ☞ Antonio Porchia,
[Psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ☞ Karen Horney,
Give us Lord, a bit o’ sun,
A bit o’ work and a bit o’ fun;
Give us all in the struggle and sputter
Our daily bread and a bit o’ butter.
☞ From an inn in Lancaster
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. ☞ Heywood Broun
Live for the roots
Love the green
Dance with the blossoms
☞ Terri Guillemets
When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world’s wisest man. "O, great sage," he says, "tell me the meaning of life." The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man’s shoulder and says, "Do you have any other questions, my son?" Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, "You wouldn’t know the meaning of lift, would you?" ☞ Robert Brault
We’re all accidental soldiers in the army of life. ☞ Ymber Delecto
Life is a long process of getting tired. ☞ Samuel Butler
The kaleidoscope of colour which is my life, shows the interesting choices I’ve made along the way. ☞ Antie Koekie
He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ☞ Moroccan Proverb
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ☞ Umberto Eco,
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. ☞ Henry Ward Beecher
Perhaps I’m old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. ☞ Douglas Adams
Suppose the world were only one of God’s jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one? ☞ George Bernard Shaw
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on. ☞ Robert Frost
Sometimes our hearts get tangled
And our souls a little off-kilter…
☞ Sera Christann
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ☞ Charles Schulz
There is no finish line. ☞ Nike advertisement
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. ☞ Sherwood Anderson
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. ☞ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. ☞ Thomas Jefferson
Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man’s life. ☞ Vita Sackville-West
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. ☞ William Lyon Phelps
In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back. ☞ Charlie Brown
The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. ☞ Fred Allen
Not unfortunately the universe is wild – game-flavoured as a hawk’s wing. ☞ B.P. Blood
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. ☞ Douglas Adams
Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling. ☞ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. ☞ Learned Hand
Light Quotes
When you possess light within, you see it externally. ☞ Anaïs Nin
You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun. ☞ Antonio Porchia
Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. ☞ Norman B. Rice
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ☞ John Muir
The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.
☞ John Greenleaf Whittier
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ☞ Vladimir Nabokov
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair… ☞ Susan Polis Shutz
I’m not a doctor and I don’t know the technical terminology, but I do know that sunshine activates our happiness glands. ☞ Jessi Lane Adams
From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. ☞ Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ☞ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ☞ Maori Proverb
The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light. ☞ Felix Adler
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ☞ Anthony J. D’Angelo
The sun is nature’s Prozac. ☞ Astrid Alauda
A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways – by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul. ☞ Plato
The stars are the street lights of eternity. ☞ Author Unknown
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. ☞ Kahlil Gibran
Wine is sunlight, held together by water. ☞ Galileo
Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God’s goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me? ☞ Albert Schweitzer
An age is called "dark," not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it. ☞ James Michener
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. ☞ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ☞ Jean Giraudoux
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. ☞ Barry Lopez
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? ☞ Maurice Freehill
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ☞ Chinese Proverb
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. ☞ James Thurber
Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that’s been our unifying cry, "More light." Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier’s Field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we’re supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light. ☞ Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. ☞ Aaron Rose
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. ☞ Charles Simic
A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you’re at home. ☞ Author Unknown
His high endeavors are an inward light
That makes the path before him always bright.
☞ William Wordsworth
They may as well have called the sun a ball of flaming joy. ☞ Terri Guillemets
Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in. ☞ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, "Let there be light!" And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. ☞ Ellen DeGeneres
Light is good from whatever lamp it shines. ☞ Author Unknown
When my heart is heavy, the sun helps make it light. ☞ Astrid Alauda
Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft. ☞ Sven Nykvist
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we’ll need no other light. ☞ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A sensitive plant in a garden grew,
And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light,
and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
☞ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love is not consolation. It is light. ☞ Friedrich Nietzsche
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t. ☞ Blaise Pascal
For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections. ☞ Peace Pilgrim
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within. ☞ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. ☞ Annie Dillard
Joy requires one to be awake,
Adjusting the heart’s ambience to bright.
Some prefer the dark, as is their right,
On grounds of agony, and to forsake
Not only bliss, but all that’s blessed by light.
☞ Nicholas Gordon
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. ☞ Henry Ward Beecher
Sun spreads through the treetops like an epidemic. ☞ Dave Bonta
Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep. ☞ H.M. Tomlinson
Sunshine is my quest. ☞ Winston Churchill
Light, God’s eldest daughter… ☞ Thomas Fuller
Alas! must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever?
☞ Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light. ☞ Earl Nightingale
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ☞ Benjamin Franklin
Into my heart’s night
Along a narrow way
I groped; and lo! the light,
An infinite land of day.
☞ Rubaiyat of Rumi
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in. ☞ Alan Alda
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight. ☞ Joseph Joubert
There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light. ☞ N.P. Willis
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ☞ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your path is illuminated by the light
Yet darkness lets the stars shine bright.
☞ J.L.W. Brooks
I’ll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time. ☞ Emily Dickinson
Auld Daddy Darkness…
See him in the corners hidin’ frae the licht,
See him at the window gloomin’ at the nicht… ☞ James Ferguson
No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. ☞ Terry Pratchett
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed. ☞ Howard Nemerov
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. ☞ Rabindranath Tagore
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. ☞ Matthew Arnold
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. ☞ Joseph Campbell
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything,
That’s how the light gets in.
☞ Leonard Cohen
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. ☞ Benjamin Franklin
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules. ☞ Douglas Adams
It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out. ☞ Calvin
He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit i’ the centre, and enjoy bright day:
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
Himself his own dungeon.
☞ John Milton
If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up. ☞ Jean Asper McIntosh
I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. Og Mandino
Though my soul may set in darkness,
It will rise in perfect light,
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.
☞ Sarah Williams
In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a "child of darkness" who is equal and complementary to the more obvious "child of light." ☞ Laurens van der Post
Moonlight is sculpture. ☞ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it’s warm and you won’t see the dust on the floor. ☞ Irish Proverb
We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own. ☞ Ben Sweetland
Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. ☞ Michael Strassfeld
Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom. ☞ Aretaeus
Live in rooms full of light. ☞ Cornelius Celsus
We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. ☞ Mary Dunbar
You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in. ☞ Arlo Guthrie
There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ☞ Edith Wharton
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