If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way — Nichiren
A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight. — Rachel Field
Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light. — Samuel Johnson
I am out with lanterns, looking for myself. — Emily Dickinson
If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others. — Plato
You are not one you are a Thousand. Just Light your Lantern. — Rumi
Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance — Dalai Lama
Your humble light the fire of your mind blinds you: If you walk with a lantern in the dark you won't see the stars. — Sayings
I've become a lantern bearer, lighting the path this country will take. — Nahoko Uehashi
The evening of life brings with it its lamps. — Joseph Joubert
I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night. — Loreena McKennitt
One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons. — Tilopa
Each small candle lights a corner of the dark. — Roger Waters
We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us. — Catherine McAuley
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there. — Muhammad Naguib
Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night. — Homer
The lighthouse of the Lord sends forth signals readily recognized and never failing — Thomas S. Monson
Lamps are different, but light is the same. — Rumi
Lighting one candle
from another -
Winter night — Yosa Buson
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. — Rumi
All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart. — Kabir
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch!
let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower — D. H. Lawrence
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean. — Ovid
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To trust God in the light is nothing, but to trust him in the dark, that is faith.
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Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark. — Dan Millman
God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet. — William Shakespeare
We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us. — Marge Piercy
If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.
But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
A house without a woman is like a lantern without the light. — Italian Proverbs
Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars.
May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright, Of soft and golden hue, Pierce through the future's veil and show, What fate now holds for you? — Jerry Smith
But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors. — Virginia Woolf
Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher. — William Butler Yeats
It may be that the night will close over us in the end, but I believe that morning will come again. Morning always grows out of the darkness, though maybe not for the people who saw the sun go down. We are the Lantern Bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind. — Rosemary Sutcliff
Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the reeds and a stone lantern and the brightest of the evening's stars floating on the gloaming mirror of the pond. Then the breeze came again to crack the water's surface, and the picture was flooded. — John Burnham Schwartz
the Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white light burning in the forests of America. — Richard Brautigan
In lantern-light My yellow Chrysanthemums Lost all their color — Yosa Buson
Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook — Nizar Qabbani
A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner. — Osho
Now, Watson,” said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns. “You’ll come with me, won’t you?” “If I can be of use.” “Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one. — Arthur Conan Doyle
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain. — Walter Raleigh
He regarded the world-objects right in front of his face-as if from a great distance. For when he moved on the earth he also moved in other realms. In certain seasons, in certain shades, memories alighted on him like sharp-taloned birds: a head turning in the foliage, lantern light flaring in a room. — Amanda Coplin
In Holman Hunt's painting, "The Light of the World, "Christ is shown in a garden at midnight, holding a lantern in His left hand. With His right hand He is knocking on a heavily paneled door. When the painting was unveiled, a critic remarked to the painter, "Mr. Hunt, the work is unfinished. There is no handle on the door." "That," Hunt answered, "is the door to the human heart. It can be opened only from the inside." — James Keller
If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,-- One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country-folk to be up and to arm. — Paul Revere
There is so much that glows in the circus, from flames to lanterns to stars. I have heard the expression “trick of the light” applied to sights within Le Cirque des Reves so frequently that I sometimes suspect the entirety of the circus is itself a complex illusion of illumination” . — Erin Morgenstern
There are 1.3 billion people today who have no access to electricity. Many of them rely on kerosene lanterns for light, but kerosene is both expensive and hazardous to the health. — Olafur Eliasson
They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light. — Charles Dickens
Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it was, they kept straight on in their immoral way and were sent to jail. For all I know, they may next be sent to Congress. — Mark Twain
Little brats yellin 'Trick or Treat' all through my screen door,
When y'all should be at home sleep,
Instead of at my front porch 15 deep.
The jack o' lantern came in handy...
I can turn my porch light out like I ain't got no candy.
But ain't that somethin?
You buy a Halloween costume and a pumpkin,
Almost gave your children a heart attack.
It's a tradition, but who the hell started that? — Kam
Alex gazed at her. Her mouth was slightly open; she ran her fingernail against her lower teeth as she thought. She'd knotted her hair at the nape of her neck again, and a strand had slipped loose onto her shoulder, gleaming in the lantern light. Suddenly all of his objections seemed meaningless. Don't, he thought. You'll regret it. He didn't care anymore. Slowly, unable to stop himself, he reached out and cupped his hand around her foot. — L.A. Weatherly
I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it and then duty . . . and maybe after that sorrow. You wouldn't think that sorrow could be a light, would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes. . . . I think that is what love is to a woman . . . a lantern in her hand. — Bess Streeter Aldrich
She's alone, they kept telling themselves, and surely she danced in no one's arms, yet somehow that seemed to matter less and less. As the night went on, and clarinet and coyote call mingled beyond the lantern light, the magic of their own powder-blue jackets and orchids seemed to fade, and it came to them in small sensations that they were more alone than she was. — Jerry Spinelli
As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We walked at night towards a cafe blooming with Japanese lanterns and I followed your white shoes gleaming like radium in the damp darkness. Rising off the water, lights flickered an invitation far enough away to be interpreted as we liked; to shimmer glamourously behind the silhouette of retrospective good times when we still believed in summer hotels and the philosophies of popular songs. — Zelda Fitzgerald
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