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40 Quotes About Light To Defeat Your Darkside

List Of 40 Quotes About Light:

#1 Rumi

“Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.”

#2 Nikola Tesla

“I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smell, touch and think.”

#3 Paulo Coelho

“No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people’s eyes, to reveal the marvels around.”

#4 David Wolpe

“The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.”

#5 Oprah WinfreyOprah

“You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.”

#6 Kamand Kojouri

“Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.”

#7 Jim Carrey

“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form.”

#8 Hubert Selby Jr.

“There’s a sorrow and pain in everyone’s life, but every now and then there’s a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.”

#9 Aberjhani

“You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.”

#10 Olli Jalonen

“Light is colder when there are parts of it missing.”

#11 Idowu Koyenikan

“There is no denying that there is evil in this world but the light will always conquer the darkness.”

#12 Robert Jordan

“No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.”

#13 Friedrich Nietzsche

“But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep – into evil.”

#14 L.F. Young

“Don’t hang with negative people. They will pull you down with them. Instead, invite them into your light and together you will both shine strong.”

#15 Romain Rolland

“If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.”

#16 Arthur Eddington

“Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds.”

#17 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“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.”

#18 Yehuda Berg

“Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key.”

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#19 Carl JungCarl Gustav Jung

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

#20 Alexandra Elle

“When you live in love and light, you will not go unseen; ignite the world with every flame of your being.”

#21 Carrie Hope Fletcher

“Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There’s no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.”

#22 Angelica Hopes

“The difference between darkness and brightness is how you thrive on those moments and how you use such circumstances with goodwill in your spirit.”

#23 Ursula K. Le Guin

“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”

#24 Ken Poirot

“Light can devour the darkness but darkness cannot consume the light.”

#25 Bram Stoker

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”

#26 Christian Bobin

“A painter is someone who wipes the windowpane between the world and us with light, with a rag made of light, soaked in silence.”

#27 Kate DiCamillo

“Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.”

#28 Tad Williams

“Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.”

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#29 PlatoPlato

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

#30 Kamand Kojouri

“Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.”

#31 Walt Whitman

“Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.”

#32 Mehmet Murat ildan

“A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light!”

#33 Roy T. Bennett

“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”

#34 Wynonna Judd

“Most of us are imprisoned by something. We’re living in darkness until something flips on the switch.”

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#35 Martin Luther King Jr.

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

#36 Mary Anne Radmacher

“As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.”

#37 Og Mandino

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

#38 Mehmet Murat ildan

“The most precious light is the one that visits you in your darkest hour!”

#39 Lailah Gifty Akita

“The path of light is the quest for knowledge.”

#40 Pope John XXIII

“If God created shadows it was to better emphasize the light.”

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