170 Light Within Quotes

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From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Light is the symbol of truth. - James Russell Lowell

Light is the symbol of truth. — James Russell Lowell

Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile - William Shakespeare

Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile — William Shakespeare

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. - Desiderius Erasmus

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. — Desiderius Erasmus

In the midst of darkness, light persists. — Mahatma Gandhi

The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it. — Swami Satchidananda

When you possess light within, you see it externally. — Anais Nin

If Light Is In Your Heart You Will Find Your Way Home. — Rumi

Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature. — Paul Gauguin

Light. Light I think is knowledge. Knowledge is love. Love is freedom. Freedom is energy. Energy is all. Without light, we can't have images. — Vittorio Storaro

Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest! — Aleister Crowley

Give light and people will find the way. — Ella Baker

Light is but the shadow of God. — Thomas Browne

A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve. — Roland Barthes

Light that is One though the lamps be many. — Robin Williamson

Short Light Within Quotes

  • The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be. — Shakti Gawain
  • Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light. — Sogyal Rinpoche
  • From every human being there rises a light. — Baal Shem Tov
  • Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. — Thomas Fuller
  • The darkness declares the glory of light. — T. S. Eliot
  • Light is the most important person in the picture. — Claude Monet
  • Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance — Dalai Lama
  • Life is a winking light in the darkness. — Hayao Miyazaki
  • Don't fear the darkness if you carry the light within. — Sivananda
  • There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. — James Thurber

Light Within Image Quotes

Light within quote To trust God in the light is nothing, but to trust him in the dark, that is faith.
To trust God in the light is nothing, but to trust him in the dark, that is faith.

Find Light Within Quotes

When we finally give up the struggle to find fulfillment "out there," we have nowhere to go but within. It is at this moment of total surrender that a new light begins to dawn. — Shakti Gawain

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 Dickinson

Celebrate the best in people. Find the light that shines not on us, but within us, when we trust enough to let it out. — Dewitt Jones

Light within quote If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.
If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.

There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent. — T. S. Eliot

There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within -- the beyond -- the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me. — Elsa Barker

I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Light within quote When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

There's a lot that I haven't put up there since my husband passed away because then it would be grief everyday. I have to fight within myself at times and ask, 'how do I go through the grief and find a light, even a glimmer of it?' — Iman Abdulmajid

Sometimes in life, we have to go backward a certain distance in order to go forwards. If we have conflicts within ourselves that we have not resolved, then we will find ourselves living inside of these conflicts, not in the realms of light. — Frederick Lenz

Go inwards. Find your inner space, and suddenly, you will find an explosion of light, of beauty, of ecstasy -as if suddenly thousands of roses have blossomed within you and you are full of their fragrance. — Osho

Some of us find our way with a single light to guide us; others lose themselves even when the star field is as sharp as a neon ceiling. Ethics may not be situational, but feelings are. We learn to adjust, and, over time, the stars we use to guide ourselves come to reside within rather than without. — Robert Crais

Light Within Us Quotes

We have within us, a power that is greater than anything we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every obstacle in our life and set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous, in a new light, and in a new life. — Ernest Holmes

There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment around us. The task is to control the environment within us. — Joan D. Chittister

There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering. — Patanjali

Light within quote I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the star
I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars.

There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are — Deepak Chopra

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. — Albert Schweitzer

Over the years, in making art, I have constantly explored issues dealing with space, time, light, and society. I am particularly interested in how the light of a space determines how we see that space and similarly, in how light and color are actually phenomena within us, within our own eyes. — Olafur Eliasson

Light within quote A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us. — Albert Schweitzer

... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for truth.' — Lucretia Mott

What makes night within us may leave stars. — Victor Hugo

Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn't penetrate. — Yasmin Mogahed

Light Gets In Quotes

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. — Leonard Cohen

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up. — Jack Welch

We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in. - Ernest Hemingway

We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in. — Ernest Hemingway

Light within quote It is surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings towar
It is surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feeling toward themselves, and if you are not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

You are my sunrise. Your smile lights up my world. I could give anything just to see you happy. True love is not in getting things from others but in giving and sharing more and more. — William Bernhardt

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret. — Robert E. Lee

The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Dim them lights get it in pimp tight do wat i do i lace up my own nikes. - Kid Cudi

Dim them lights get it in pimp tight do wat i do i lace up my own nikes. — Kid Cudi

If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night. — Joe Frazier

The myth that women should lift light weights to prevent getting 'bulky' is perpetuated by men who fear women and women who fear work. — Layne Norton

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

Where The Light Comes In Quotes

All accusation is of the devil, no matter where it comes from. It is just as dangerous to accuse others as it is to give the accuser room in your own life. The accuser gives no hope. God does not accuse us, but He does give us promptings that bring light and hope. — Esther Smith

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light. — Freya Stark

Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It comes from street lamps, headlights, security floodlights, and even the faint glow of our alarm clocks. We take it for granted that we can see at all times of day and night. — Jake Halpern

Light within quote Everything you need, you courage, strength, compassion and love; everything you need is already with
Everything you need, you courage, strength, compassion and love; everything you need is already within you.

Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes. — Mahatma Gandhi

I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart. — Veronica Roth

If a man can permanently establish his awareness in contact with that pure field (of consciousness), then problems wither away. It's a very simple thing. When the light comes, then where is the darkness? — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. but mostly they're darked. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win? — Dr. Seuss

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out. — Maya Angelou

When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to. — Irvine Welsh

Because I don't belong entirely to Britain or the U.S. or India or Japan, I build my foundations in some way deeper than mere passports, and more in the light of where I'm going than of "where I come from." — Pico Iyer

Inner Light Quotes

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. — Maya Angelou

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. - Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. — Kahlil Gibran

Listen to the inner light; It will guide you. Listen to the inner Peace; It will feed you. Listen to the inner Love; It will transform you, It will divinise you, It will immortalise you. — Sri Chinmoy

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. — Karl von Clausewitz

We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas . . . As we begin to clear away this clutter, the energy of divine light and love begins to flow through our being. — Thomas Keating

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. — Carl Jung

Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind. — Dalai Lama

Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light. — Paracelsus

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. - Alexis Carrel

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. — Alexis Carrel

Deep Within Quotes

All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices. — Louis Zamperini

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness. — Rodney Dangerfield

For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind. — S. N. Goenka

True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. - Audrey Hepburn

True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. — Audrey Hepburn

Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. - Zora Neale Hurston

Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. — Zora Neale Hurston

We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out. - Colin Mochrie

We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out. — Colin Mochrie

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder. - William Carlos Williams

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder. — William Carlos Williams

I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within. — David Lynch

Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice. . . . Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power. It is simple. It is serene. It is amazing. It is radiant. — R. Kelly

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex. - Spike Milligan

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex. — Spike Milligan

Joy Within Quotes

We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope. — William Wordsworth

Happiness requires struggle. Without struggle, the world would lack meaning and our joys would feel empty. Be grateful for your struggles, because within them is the constant opportunity for purpose. — Mark Manson

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation. — Christopher McCandless

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. - Rumi

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. — Rumi

But in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. — Christopher McCandless

The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving. — Emanuel Swedenborg

Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you. — Deepak Chopra

The reward of running — of anything — lies within us … We focus on something external to motivate us, but we need to remember that it’s the process of reaching for that prize — not the prize itself — that can bring us peace and joy. — Scott Jurek

When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies. — Grace Slick

Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms. — Rabindranath Tagore

Within You Quotes

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. - African Proverbs

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. — African Proverbs

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see. — Henry David Thoreau

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you. — Muhammad Iqbal

The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms. — Hildegard of Bingen

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. - Galileo Galilei

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. — Galileo Galilei

I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one. — Crazy Horse

The only limit to the power of Almighty God lies within you & me. - Sayings

The only limit to the power of Almighty God lies within you & me. — Sayings

Within 2 years Im predicting...that youre going to see a suitcase nuke in this country. Youre probably going to see a release in a few years of something communicable. & I am predicting that you will see a lot of conventional bombings...in the next year or so. — Alex Jones

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. — Vincent Van Gogh

When there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do you no harm. - African Proverbs

When there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do you no harm. — African Proverbs

Darkness Within Quotes

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,but when the darkness sets in,their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart. — Kabir

Remember that you have a choice in what you see. If you choose to see a person's darkness, you strengthen your darkness within. If you choose to see their light, you shine from the inside out. — Gabrielle Bernstein

A forest can’t see the darkness within it and nor does youth show on old age. — Romanian Proverbs

If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'. — Wilhelm Rontgen

If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, “Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.” — Donald Miller

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within. — Caspar David Friedrich

When the invocation descends into the heart, if there is darkness within, it illuminates it; and if there is already light, the invocation increases the light and intensifies it. — Ibn Ata Allah

I hoped to get instruction in Yoga, expected wonderful teachings, but what the teacher did was mainly to force me to face the darkness within myself and it almost killed me.... I was beaten down in every sense until I had to come to terms with that in me which I kept rejecting all my life. — Irina Tweedie

The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. — Plato

Beauty Within Quotes

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe. — Frederick Buechner

As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin. - Pablo Neruda

As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin. — Pablo Neruda

The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together. — N. T. Wright

We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember that true beauty comes from within - from within bottles, jars, compacts, and lipstick tubes — Jeffree Star

There is a world within - a world of thought and feeling and power; of light and beauty, and although invisible, its forces are mighty. — Charles F. Haanel

We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us. — Ernesto Cardenal

Refusing to gossip is a beautiful decision to make. It not only creates richer friendships but, more importantly, it makes our relationship with the Lord more authentic and believable. We honor God when we honor each other. — Lysa TerKeurst

Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty. — Robert Adams

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More Light Within Quotes

Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge. — Plato

There is a mystery within all beings bursting to reveal itself, in the ones who become quiet enough to discover it. In this discovery a benevolent force shines spontaneously from your presence towards all beings, and this light cannot help but illuminate the world. — Mooji

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine. — Oprah Winfrey

I love you between shadow and soul. I love you as the plant that hasn't bloomed yet, and carries hidden within itself the light of flowers. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. Because of you, the dense fragrance that rises from the earth lives in my body, rioting with hunger for the eternity of our victorious kisses. — Pablo Neruda

O people of the earth, men and women born and made of the elements, but with the spirit of the Divine within you, rise from your sleep of ignorance! Be sober and thoughtful. Realize that your home is not on the earth but in the Light. Why have you delivered yourselves unto death, having power to partake of immortality? — Egyptian Proverbs

Know that you are a spark of God and can exist fully only within the realization of that profound truth. As such, you are a light and inspiration to others. — Harold Klemp

The problem we are trying to solve is that of drugs that would have never seen the light of day for reasons that have nothing to do with the inherent properties of drug candidates themselves and more to do with bureaucratic institutions within which they often sit. — Vivek Ramaswamy

Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights. — Hu Shih

Lock all communication. If there's no light within my day. I'd rather stay in isolation. For that special someone a lifetime I'll wait. — Buju Banton

Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king. — George R. R. Martin

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. — Stephen Covey

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence. — Maria Montessori

Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding. — Lao Tzu

When your mind is functioning correctly, there is an out streaming of light from within in the form of inspiration, hunches, leadings, and intuitive flashes - trust this process of inspiration. “In the twinkling of an eye” ideas and plans may flow into your mind. — Eric Butterworth

I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, 'What am I supposed to do?' and she said, 'Just wait, we're going inside to greet the light.' I liked that—this idea to go inside to find that light within, literally as well as figuratively. — James Turrell

And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright. — Omar Khayyam

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost. — George Eastman

Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul. — Paulo Coelho

We are living in a time of uncertainty, anxiety, fear, and despair. It is essential that you become aware of the light, power, and strength within each of you, and that you learn to use those inner resources in service of your own and others' growth. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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