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Light is the source of the visible world

• Light: The natural agent that stimulates sight and makes things visible. Oxford Dictionary
• Light: The brightness that comes from the sun, fire, etc. and from electrical devices, and that allows things to be seen.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Light: Something that makes things visible or affords illumination.  Dictionary.com
• And so this is what light is: an electric field tied up with a magnetic field, flying through space. Cathal O’Connell
• Light is a fluid of sunbeams. At-Tunikhi
• Light shines through the darkness, illuminating all in its path. Light is the source of the visible world, whether in our everyday existence or in the creation of a photograph. It is light that makes seeing and recording sight possible, and so it is a wonder to behold. It is an energy that guides as well as stuns, and in this way, light is a force of reckoning. Miss Rosen
• Darkness,  Sunshine,  Sun,  Goodness,  Cheerfulness

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Light is the very stuff of life

• Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that’s been our unifying cry, “More light.”   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
• 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
• The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it’s here is up to us. Journey wisely. Alexandra Elle
• The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation’s mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.  Charles Dickens
• Just living is not enough … One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.  Hans Christian Anderson
• Of all the marvellous creations of nature, none is more wonderful or more widely diffused than light. Acton
• 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

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Light has a powerful physical effect on us …

• I think that people generally don’t understand that light is a drug. Just like drugs, light can change the timing and abundance of chemicals in your body, hormones, neurotransmitters –  all those sorts of things. That’s exactly what drugs do. Travis Longcore

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… including a huge impact on our feelings and moods

• Besides its other admirable properties, light has that of developing the feelings. That it has this power is indicated by the poets, in their frequent use of such phrases as “the cheerful light of morn,” “a dim religious light,” “the purple light of love,” “the tender light of the moon,” and so on, through a long series of descriptive expressions, ending with that delicious one of Mrs. Norton, “the love light in her eye.” Again: Place a number of persons in a room dimly lighted, and they will become taciturn and moody; put the light altogether out, and they will fall asleep; then awaken and lead them into a chamber brilliantly lighted, and they will probably soon become full of animation. Christian Nestell Bovee
• For this queen of colours, the light, bathing all which we behold, wherever I am through the day, gliding by me in varied forms, soothes me when engaged on other things, and not observing it. And so strongly doth it entwine itself, that if it be suddenly withdrawn, it is with longing sought for, and if absent long, saddeneth the mind. St. Augustine
• Our moments of light are moments of happiness; in the mind, when it is clear weather it is fine weather. Joubert
• When my heart is heavy, the sun helps make it light. Terri Guillemets
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Getting enough light is essential for our health

• I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. Henry Ward Beecher
• Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. Flemish Proverb
• I’m not a doctor and I don’t know the technical terminology, but I do know that sunshine activates our happiness glands. Terri Guillemets
• Now, if light exercises such a power over other created beings, why should it not also have a distinct influence on the human body and mind?… It may rightly be asserted that a clear atmosphere and sunlight are most powerful in producing a genial disposition in man and therefore have a vital influence on mind and body. Sebastian Kneipp
• Where the sun does not go, there goes the doctor…. Watch for the sun, for life and health dwell in the sun’s beams; and when it is shining, open every window in the house until it goes down again. “Take Sun Baths,” Food, Home and Garden, November 1897
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Every life contains a measure of both light and dark

• Each day of human life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature’s grand design – do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things.  Morihei Ueshiba
• There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose. Cate Tiernan
• 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 Bray
• 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. Pythagoras
• There’s light and joy, but there’s also darkness all around and we can be lost in it. David Almond
• There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with discontent, distilling in this process of contrast a sense of satisfaction, of richness that can be captured and pinned down only by those who possess the gift of awareness. Louis Bromfield
• Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. May Sarton
• In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light. Kami Garcia
• There might not be so much of a difference between the side of Light and the side of Dark as you suppose. After all, without the Dark, there is nothing for the Light to burn away. Cassandra Clare
• 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. Hubert Selby Jr.
• Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.  Amit Ray

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Where there is light, there is always shadow

• Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby. Ruth E. Renkel
• There is strong shadow where there is much light. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• To light a candle is to cast a shadow. Ursula K. Le Guin
• To rid ourselves of our shadows who we are we must step into either total light or total darkness. Jeremy Preston Johnson
• Where there is much light the shade is deepest. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The secret of life is to embrace the dark as well as the light

• Experience life in all possible ways; good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become. Osho
• Every moment of light and dark is a miracle. Walt Whitman
• “Seasons” is a wise metaphor for the movement of life, I think. It suggests that life is neither a battlefield nor a game of chance, but something infinitely richer, more promising, more real. The notion that our lives are like the eternal cycle of the seasons does not deny the struggle or the joy, the loss or the gain, the darkness or the light, but encourages us to embrace it all – and to find in all of it the opportunities for growth. Parker Palmer

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Light can only be truly appreciated after experiencing the dark

• So you enjoy living in the light, with happiness and stillness. You will only truly appreciate it after you’ve been in the dark. Then you will have true joy and serenity.
• Numb the dark and you numb the light. Brené Brown
• If we pause to peer into the beauty of natural darkness … we’re soon reminded of its riches. If the light didn’t fade, how could we appreciate a sunset, or the glimmer of the first evening star? How could we enjoy a deep and restorative sleep? How could a seed ever germinate? Brian Draper
• Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? Clive Barker

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It is in the darkness that we find the light

• Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest to all of us. Meister Eckhart
• Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greates gems of light. Barbara Marciniak
• 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
• Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying: “You are accepted.” Paul Johannes Tillich
• It’s in the entrails of the earth, not on its surface, that you can find diamonds and gold. It’s in going into the darkness that we find enlightenment.  Robert Scaer
• Honor your challenges, for those spaces that you label as dark are actually there to bring you more light, to strengthen you, to firm your resolve, and to bring out the best in you. Sanaya Roman
• 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. Carrie Hope Fletcher

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Without the dark, we’d never even be aware of the light

• The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows. Brené Brown
• We are all the Light. Light is all we are. But we have been placed in a relative realm (a world of light and dark) so we can experience who we are and who we are not. Neale Donald Walsch
• You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in. Arlo Guthrie
• It takes darkness to be aware of the light. Treasure Tatum
• Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? Clive Barker

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Embrace the light within you and let it radiate …

• We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light. Earl Nightingale
• I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own Being. Hafez
• If there is darkness in the world it is simply because we have chosen not to turn on the light; the light within. Robert Beno
• There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights. Bram Stoker, Dracula
• People are like stained glass windows, the true beauty can be seen only when there is light from within. The darker the night, the brighter the windows. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
• Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we’ll need no other light. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• When you possess light within, you see it externally.  Anaïs Nin
• We all have a divine mission on earth. Let that mission be to inspire love and embrace the light within. Micheal Teal
• As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light. Susan Jeffers
• Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you. Judith Jamison
• Smiling engages your heart to beam the radiant light of your soul out through your eyes and into the world. Your shining light is always beautiful… Robert Beno
• To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts — such is the duty of the artist. Schumann

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… the light that shines in the soul…

• 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
• All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous. Thomas Carlyle
• Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world: first a dawning, then a light, and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness. Thomas Adams
• Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• May the Creator ignite the spark of light within our soul. Lailah Gifty Akita
• The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light… It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence. Marilynne Robinson
• The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the sun. John Greenleaf Whittier
• Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form … you can transfigure negativity by turning it toward the light of your soul. John O’Donohue
• Smiling engages your heart to beam the radiant light of your soul out through your eyes and into the world. Your shining light is always beautiful… Robert Beno
• Stop sourcing for external energy source to charge yourself. Seek the light within and it will brighten you more, remember you truly are one amazing, beautiful, gorgeous soul. Revathi Sankaran
• There is a well of infinity hidden within each Soul. There you will find an incredible energy source, beyond your broadest understanding. It is Light and Healing. The Force of Nature. The essence of Love. Royce Addington
• 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
• Through meditation one discovers one’s own light. That light you can call your soul, yourself, your God—whatsoever word you choose—or you can remain just silent because it has no name. Rajneesh
• What is soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room. Ray Charles

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… the light that shines in the heart

• Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. Kahlil Gibran
• There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself though it is always secretly there. It is what illuminates our minds to see beauty, our desire to seek possibility and our hearts to love life. Without this subtle quickening our days would be empty and wearisome, and no horizon would ever awaken our longing. Our passion for life is quietly sustained from somewhere in us that is wedded to the energy and excitement of life. This shy inner light is what enables us to recognize and receive our very presence here as blessing. John O’Donohue
• When you peer into the world through the eyes of your heart, darkness gives way to light. Robert Beno
• If my heart were not light, I would die. Joanna Baillie
• The more the heart is an avid void, the more abundantly light will shine into it. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. Jean Giraudoux
• There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.

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Our very purpose in life is to be a light in the dark …

• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Carl Jung
• Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war. Mike Dolan
• Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• As the calendar approaches the year’s darkest night, reflect on those who have brought you light. How have you yourself brought a glimmer of light into someone else’s darkness? Kathy Coffey
• Life isn’t just about darkness or light, rather it’s about finding light within the darkness. Laandon Parham
• Stop looking for the Light. Be It. Lori Moreno
• 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

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… to recognise ourselves as the light …

• The parable of the soul and the sun: There was once a soul who knew itself to be the light. This was a new soul, and so, anxious for experience. “I am the light,” it said. “I am the light.” Yet all the knowing of it and the all the saying of it could not substitute for the experience of it. For in the realm from which the this little soul emerged, there was nothing BUT the light. Every soul was magnificent and shone with the brilliance of My awesome light. And so the little soul in question was as a candle in the sun. In the midst of the grandest light, of which it was a part, it could not see itself, nor experience itself as Who It Really Is. Now it came to pass that this soul yearned and yearned to know itself. And so great was its yearning that I one day said “Do you know, Little One, what you must do to satisfy this yearning of yours? You must separate yourself from the rest of us and then you must call upon yourself the darkness.” “What is the darkness, oh Holy One?” the little soul asked. “That which you are not.” I replied and the little soul understood. And so this the soul did, removing itself from all Yea, and going even unto another realm. And in this realm, the soul had the power to call into its experience all sorts of darkness. And this it did. And yet in the midst of all the darkness did it cry out, “Father, father, why have you forsaken me?” But I have never forsaken you, but stand by you always, ready to remind you of Who You Really Are, ready, always ready to call you home. Neale Donald Walsch
• The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you. It has no intention to harmonize. It has no agenda. It just happens. The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda. Everything else will have an agenda. Adyashanti

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… to reach out and pull others out of the dark into the light

• Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. Norman B. Rice
• None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light. Dean Koontz

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Therefore, shine your light onto the darkness and curse it not

• Anything that you fight with or struggle against grows larger. You give power to lower energies by focusing upon them. You don’t eliminate darkness by arguing with it. The only way to eliminate darkness is to turn on a light. Doreen Virtue
• Be a light unto the darkness, and curse it not. Neale Donald Walsch
• Let thy light shine, then, in dark places. Edgar Cayce
• You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light. Marianne Williamson
• There is no way to get dark out of a room other than to let light in. The only way to get stress out of your being is to let in relaxation. You cannot be relaxed and stressful at the same time. Josè Silva and Burt Goldman
• Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to switch on the light. Albus Dumbledore
• It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Chinese Proverb
• At a tender age I discovered that it isn’t doing spectacular things that makes you remarkable in the eyes of God, but instead, it is when you light just one candle to dispel a little bit of darkness that you are doing something tremendous. And if, as a global people, we put all the little bits of good together, we will overwhelm the world. Desmond Tutu
• Let me light my lamp, says the tiny star; and never debate whether it will dispel the darkness. Rabindranath Tagore
• You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light. Marianne Williamson

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Let your light shine bright

• Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love. Wilferd Peterson
• 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
• Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. Anthony J. D’Angelo
• You don’t have to blow out the other fellow’s light to let your own shine. Bernard Baruch
• There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton
• Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. Francis of Assisi
• All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me. Fred Rogers
• To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are. Roy T. Bennett
• 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 Doyle
• It’s hard to be a bright light in a dim world. Gary Starta

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Be a light for others

• Sometimes our light goes out but is brought into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. Albert Schweitzer
• Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha
• We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own. Ben Sweetland
• God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind. Kahlil Gibran
• 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. Roy T. Bennett

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Radiate your inner light through your smile

• A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you’re at home.
• Smiling engages your heart to beam the radiant light of your soul out through your eyes and into the world. Your shining light is always beautiful… Robert Beno
• When I smile – not only do I feel happy, but also, I bring a ray of light into the lives of others.
• A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you’re at home.
• A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. Denis Waitley
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Know that no amount of darkness can snuff out the light

• There isn’t enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle.
• Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. Anne Frank
• Keep your flame lit, and you will never feel darkness. J. Parker
• Even a small star shines in the darkness. Finnish proverb
• There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle. Robert Alden
• Shine the light onto your darkest fears
• Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win. Steve Maraboli
• I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears. Max Brooks
• Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light. Dorothy Thompson

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There is both light and darkness in all of us …

• Within ourselves, we possess every trait and its polar opposite, every human emotion and impulse. We have to uncover, own and embrace all of who we are, the good and bad, dark and light, strong and weak, and honest and dishonest. Debbie Ford
• In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time. Libba Bray
• The soul’s dark cottage, battered and decayed, lets in new light through chinks that time hath made. Edmund Waller
• The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us. The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being’s difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.   Elizabeth Gilbert
• 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. Rowling
• Every man as well as every day has its lights and shades. Winfield Scott
• 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
• 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
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• The most enlightened people in the world embrace their full potential of light and dark. When you’re with people who recognize and own their negative qualities, you never feel judged by them. It’s only when people see good and bad, right and wrong, as qualities outside themselves that judgments occur. Deepak Chopra

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Balance the light and dark in you for they depend on each other to exist

• Nothing is not the opposite of everything. Dark is not the opposite of light. Good is not the opposite of bad. They are all the same coin, the head is inseparable from the tail. Yin is entirely dependant on Yang to exist. All opposites arise and fall away together. So, running away is also running toward. Silence is sound, stillness movement. Nothing is everything. Mike Jenkins
• The Amish love the Sunshine and Shadow quilt pattern. It shows two sides–the dark and light, spirit and form– and the challenge of bringing the two into a larger unity.  It’s not a choice between extremes:  conformity or freedom, discipline or imagination, acceptance or doubt, humility or a raging ego.  It’s a balancing act that includes opposites.  Sue Bender

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Sometimes it is not our darkness that we fear most but our light

• It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Marianne Williamson
• Who is more foolish – the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? Maurice Freehill
• 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. Plato

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Shine the light of awareness onto the darkness …

• Awareness is like bringing a light to the darkness of mindless reactions. Once you can see them more clearly, you can choose to respond more skillfully. Bob Stahl
• As you watch your mind, you discover yourself as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover yourself as the light behind the watcher. The source of light is dark, unknown is the source of knowledge. That source alone is. Go back to that source and abide there. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred. Thich Nhat Hanh
• A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self- awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self- awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• If you can discover the fear behind the anger and dismantle it in the light of awareness, the anger dissipates. The next time you are angry, ask yourself, What am I afraid of? Alan Cohen
• Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Vernon Howard
• To live without awareness is to live as the deaf, blind and dumb in a world of vibrant light and sound. Belsebuub
• Attention is like a spotlight, and what it illuminates streams into your mind and shapes your brain. Rick Hanson
• The radiance of God is the light of awareness that reveals the divinity of all that exists. David R. Hawkins
• Attention is like light and air and water. Shine attention on obstacles and problems and they multiply lavishly. Roz & Ben Zander
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… especially through the practice of mindfulness

• Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power of concentration, bringing forth deep insight and awakening. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Mindfulness is like a floodlight, shining awareness on the whole field of your experience, including sensations, emotions, and thoughts as they arise and pass away in the dynamic, ever- changing flux that characterizes the human experience of body and mind. Frank Jude Boccio

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Transform inner darkness into light

• 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 Manning
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In dark times, remember the darker it gets, the brighter the light of the stars

• I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. Og Mandino
• It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars. Richard Evans
• I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Galileo
• Your path is illuminated by the light. Yet darkness lets the stars shine bright.  L.W. Brooks
• Only in the darkness can you see the stars. Martin Luther King Jr.
• The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God! Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope. Gerald Massey
• When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Charles A Beard
• When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars.
• What makes night within us may leave stars. Victor Hugo
• When darkness is at its darkest, a star shines the brightest. Louise Philippe
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In dark times, remember light always prevails against darkness in the end

• Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light. Boris Pasternak
• Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning. Copernicus
• I have seen the sun with a little ray of distant light challenge all the powers of darkness, and without violence and noise, climbing up the hill, hath made night so retire that its memory was lost in the joys and sprightliness of the morning. Jeremy Taylor
• Just remember, a dark shadow needs light to exist but light doesn’t need darkness to be luminous. Gwen Hayes
• Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. Jean Giraudoux
• Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day. James A. Garfield

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In dark times, remember light always follows the dark

• Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. Laurence Sterne
• The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body. Aristotle

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In dark times, focus to see the light

• It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. Aristotle Onassis

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When necessary, be prepared to walk on with no light at all

• To go into the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight and find that the dark too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.  Wendell Berry
• Instead, look for what you cannot see. There are universes among us, within us. Our only way out of darkness is to learn how to see without light. Yvonne Woon

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The light of truth

• Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. Leonardo da Vinci
• The Light is more than some abstract, unknowable energy force. Light is Truth. If Light is truth, then darkness must be lies. Each and every lie we tell to ourselves and others casts the shadow of separation upon us. Every time even the most minor deception is revealed and the truth is made known we are re-united with the Light. So, Let there be Light. Those are the words by which you can create your own magnificent world. Renee Bledsoe
• Light is the symbol of truth. James Russell Lowell
• Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. Joseph Pulitzer
• In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. Mahatma Gandhi
• There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Raymond Thornton Chandler
• Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher. William Wordsworth
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The light of God

• I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence. Helen Keller
• Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. William Shakespeare
• When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing? Epictetus
• And I said to the man who stood at the gate to the year, “Give me a light that I might tread safely into the unknown.” And he replied, “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God, that shall be to you better than the light and safer than a known way.” Minnie Louise Haskins
• Darkness cannot put out the Light. It can only make God brighter.
• I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. Bible
• The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars. Albert Pike
• And I said to the one who stood at the gate of the year, “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the Unknown.” And he replied, “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.” Minnie Haskins
• For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections. Peace Pilgrim
• God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God. Albert Einstein
• God presents Himself in the light; He also conceals Himself by the light—just as we present ourselves in our garments and conceal ourselves by our garments. John Pulsford
• Light is God’s first law. Veda
• No creature hath the like resemblance to the divine nature, as light hath. He doth not only dwell in light, but he is light. Light is a pure, bright, clear, spiritual, unmixed substance. God is infinitely so. Mathew Enry
• The salutary and enlivening effects of light upon the heavens and the earth, upon all substances of nature, and upon every order of beings throughout the visible creation, do certainly afford a lively illustration of the infinite knowledge, power, and goodness of God. J. BASELEY
• Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. William Shakespeare
• The best way to see Divine light, is to put out thine own candle. Francis Quarles
• God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self- evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light. Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The light of faith

• Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore
• Faith means living with uncertainty – feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark. Dan Millman
• ..When you come to the edge of all the light you have and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. Patrick Overton
• My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness. Mahatma Gandhi
• Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light. Francine Rivers
• Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. Helen Keller
• In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t. Blaise Pascal

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The light of hope

• Any little thing can give hope, like a candle in the dark. Christiaan Mostert
• But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness. Rick Yancey
• Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. Anne Lamott
• Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. Desmond Tutu
• Hope is much like a cat in the Dark — you only know it’s there by the reflection of its eyes — which means there is light nearby. Terri Guillemets
• The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope. Gerald Massey
• But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness. Rick Yancey
• An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? René Descartes
• Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic. Laini Taylor

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The light of revelation

• Light is a source of revelation. Regardless of what you might think, it is finding out something that you did not know. Light illuminates your pathway in life. Light allows you to put one thing in front of the other. Angela Clark
• Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. Ambrose Bierce
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The light of goodness and virtue

• At a tender age I discovered that it isn’t doing spectacular things that makes you remarkable in the eyes of God, but instead, it is when you light just one candle to dispel a little bit of darkness that you are doing something tremendous. And if, as a global people, we put all the little bits of good together, we will overwhelm the world. Desmond Tutu
• Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light. Gautama Buddha
• How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. William Shakespeare
• Light is good from whatever lamp it shines.
• There is in each of us so much goodness that if we could see its glow, it would light the world. Sam Friend
• 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
• The light of our talents and gifts
• We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. Evelyn Dunbar
• When you have the courage to follow your talents into the dark unknown places they lead, often God will send angels to light your way. Shannon L. Alder
• You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world. Oprah Winfrey
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The light of writing and reflection

• Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer to our souls. Hillary Carlip
• Light the way with the help of your friends …We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story. Shauna NiequistWhen it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me. Seán O’Casey
• When you’re conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. Anne Lamott
• Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter’s sensitivity to light. Much … of my writing is verbal painting. Elizabeth Bowen
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The light of your friends …

• We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story. Shauna Niequist
• When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me. Seán O’Casey
• A friend is a mirror who allows you to see yourself in your best light. Anthony Lambert
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… realising that you don’t need to walk in the dark alone

• I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. Helen Keller

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The light of language

• Language is the light of the mind. John Stuart Mill
• Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light. Elizabeth Kostova
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The light of ideas

• Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. Napoleon Hill
• Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death. Seth Godin
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The light of wisdom

• To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. Buddha
• God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind. Kahlil Gibran
• … wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. Buddha
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The light of cheerfulness

• Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Joseph Addison
• Let your inner sunshine overcome the passing haze of discontent. Dodinsky
• All the windows of my heart I open to the day. John Greenleaf Whittier
• Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The light of doubt

• The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice. Saul D. Alinsky
• There are two kinds of doubt as there are two twilights: one growing darker and darker, the shadows gathering, moon and stars vanishing, leaving naught but silence and solitude; the other leading on to light and gladness, brighter and brighter until the shadows flee away and the day breaks. David James Burrell
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The light of reason

• If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold. Louis D. Brandeis
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The light of your ideals

• The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Albert Einstein
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The light of possibility

• The light of day showed you the limits of possibility. But walk through the dark, the absolute, total darkness, and the possibilities were limitless. Michael Grant
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The light of knowledge

• In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge. Victor Hugo
• God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind. Kahlil Gibran
• Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times – few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Sydney J. Harris
• The light in the world comes principally from two sources, the sun and the student’s lamp. Christian Nestell Bovee
• The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge. Benjamin Whichcote
• When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly. Patrick Overton
• Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand. Ezra Pound
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The light of understanding

• My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed! Anne Sullivan
• We shall light a candle of understanding in our hearts which shall not be put out. Jewish Proverb
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The light of words

• An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. L. E. Landon
• Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness. Jim Rohn
• Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child’s life and it’s like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities. Gary Smalley
• Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated. Dan Simmons
• The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on. Emily Dickinson
• Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly lightJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The light of altruism

• Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The light of love …

• Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Focus on love rather than fear. Connect with the Divine that flows through you, and allow the power of love to radiate through your being. Remind yourself that fear is simply an absence of love, just as darkness is an absence of light. When we turn on a light, the darkness simply cannot exist. Likewise, if we can illuminate our fear with pure love, the fear cannot help but vanish. Amanda Harvey
• It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn’t about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability. Lisa Kleypas
• Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most. Ruth Carter Stapleton
• Love is not consolation. It is light.  Friedrich Nietzsche
• Love must be as much a light as it is a flame. Henry David Thoreau
• The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul. John Welwood
• Like the sun’s rays that cause the seed to stir within its husk, love’s radiant energy penetrates the facade of the false self, calling forth resources hidden deep within us. John Welwood
• It’s the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world. Tahereh Mafi
• … that chases away the darkness of hatred
• Hatred paralyses life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Martin Luther King Jr.
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The light of experience

• The light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Light is a matter of experience, and it stays in play as experience even as we do our best to reduce it to rule and explanation. David A. Grandy
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The light of stories and songs

• For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. Reba McEntire
• Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light. Kate DiCamillo
• In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. Alberto Manguel
• Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light. Brené Brown
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The light of creativity

• When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied, “Only stand out of my light.” Perhaps someday we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light. John W. Gardner
• Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you. Judith Jamison
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The light of grace

• 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
• We’re all stumbling toward the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment. Bo Lozoff
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Light is beauty

• Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. Anton Chekhov
• In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. Aaron Rose
• To love beauty is to see light. Victor Hugo
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Colour is inseparable from light

• Color and Light are inseparable. Thomas Jefferson Kitts
• Color and light must be entirely melted into one and felt as such – and light must be expressed as it is felt as color. Morgan Russell
• Colours are light’s suffering and joy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Colours are the deeds of light, its deeds and sufferings. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• I learned from Seurat this important thing about colour and light, that ‘a light’ can be built from colour. I learned a great deal about interaction, that ‘a blue’ in different parts the same blue will play all sorts of different roles. Bridget Riley
• Light is therefore colour. J. M. W. Turner
• It is still color; it is not yet light. Pierre Bonnard
• All colours will agree in the dark. Francis Bacon
• As a flame produces light, light produces color. Johannes Itten
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Light is at the heart of art

• As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts — such is the duty of the artist. Schumann
• Color and light must be entirely melted into one and felt as such – and light must be expressed as it is felt as color. Morgan Russell
• If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion. Robert Reynolds
• You dip your brush in air and light and spread them on your canvas. Denis Diderot
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Light is at the heart of photography

• I always know I’m talking to a gardener or a photographer if at any given time, they know where the light is. Betsy Cañas Garmon
• Light is a plastic medium that is the key ingredient shared by every photograph and determines the look of every photograph you make. Light’s authority defines the essence of a subject. Light is the glue that holds your image together. Robert Hirsch
• In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. Aaron Rose
• Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography. George Eastman
• Light glorifies everything. It transforms and ennobles the most commonplace and ordinary subjects. The object is nothing, light is everything. Leonard Missone
• I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical. Trent Parke
• The only ‘bad light’ is the absence of light altogether.
• What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. John Berger
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Darkness is the absence of light

• Light is a reality. Darkness is the absence of that reality. Light is a positive force. Darkness is not a force or a presence or a quantity of any kind. It appears only when light disappears. Light is not dependent upon darkness, but darkness is totally dependent upon light. John W. Sloat
• Light is a thing that can be measured. It has a speed of 186,000 miles per second, and it can be investigated in a number of different ways. It has physical properties. It does not have mass you cannot hold onto it   but nonetheless it can be studied by physicists. It is really there. It is a real thing. Darkness, on the other hand, is nothing. It does not exist. There is nothing to count, nothing to measure, nothing to evaluate.  Harry Lee Poe

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The speed of light

• Light thinks it travels faster than anything, but it is wrong. 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
• Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules. Douglas Adams
• Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
• If the speed of light is 186,000 miles/sec., what’s the speed of darkness?
• It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light and certainly not desirable as one’s hat keeps blowing off. Woody Allen

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Let your wounds be an opening for the light to come in

• The wound is the place where the Light enters you. Rumi
• There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen
• The soul’s dark cottage, battered and decayed, lets in new light through chinks that time hath made. Edmund Waller
• The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in. David J. Wolpe
• The light of the mind
• A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 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
• Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. Henry George
• The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. Augustus Hare
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• If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up. Jean Asper McIntosh
• 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
• It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out. Bill Watterson
• Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules. Douglas Adams
• Lite: the new way to spell “Light,” now with 20% fewer letters!
• This isn’t an office. It’s hell with fluorescent lighting.
• Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
• Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight? Al Boliska
• I was a vegetarian until I found myself starting to lean toward the sunlight. Rita Rudner
• If the speed of light is 186,000 miles/sec., what’s the speed of darkness?
• If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it’s the light of the oncoming train. Lowell’s Law
• It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light and certainly not desirable as one’s hat keeps blowing off. Woody Allen
• The difference between light and hard is that you can sleep with a light on.
• The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to budget cuts.
• The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause. Gary D. Schmidt
• The lights are shining quite darkly. Henry Blofeld
• Twilight: All the difference between day and night.

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