Light quotes

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◆ Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King Jr.100

◆ PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

- Emily Dickinson99

◆ It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

- Arthur Conan Doyle99

◆ I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

- Og Mandino99

◆ She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.

- Jerry Spinelli99

◆ We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

- J.K. Rowling99

◆ In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.

- Brennan Manning99

◆ Until a few days ago, humans had been little more than legend to him, and now here he was in their world. It was like stepping into the pages of a book -- a book alive with color and fragrance, filth and chaos -- and the blue-haired girl moved through it all like a fairy through a story, the light treating her differently than it did others, the air seemed to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place was a story about her.

- Laini Taylor99

◆ People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.

- C.J. Roberts99

◆ When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

- Ursula K. Le Guin99

◆ It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.

- Tahereh Mafi99

◆ We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

- E.M. Forster99

◆ I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

- Libba Bray99

◆ I travel light. But not at the same speed.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

- Pythagoras99