2024-05-06

Inspirational Quotes About Light

 The holidays mark a time of joy and celebration, but also a time of long, dark days. May this collection of quotes inspire you to see the light. And May there be:

Light above you.

Light below you.

Light all around you.

Light within you.

Read the first light-filled quote.

 "Winter is the time of love and of taking the light within."

Terry Lynn Taylor

 "Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

Victor Hugo

 "When you possess light within, you see it externally."

Anaïs Nin

 "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

 "It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness."

Chinese Proverb

 "Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us."

Meister Eckhart

 "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."

Helen Keller

 "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

 "Light is the symbol of truth."

James Russell Lowell

 "Light is the first of the painters. There is no object so foul, that intense light will not make it beautiful."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 "Let your light shine. Shine within so you can shine on someone else."

Oprah Winfrey

 "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? …As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."

Marianne Williamson

 "When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength.

Shawnee Chief Tecumseh

 "There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in your heart."

Chandogya Upanishad

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