Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Perspective Lightness quotations
Life Will Put Many Red Lights In Front Of You, But Sometimes We Must Push On The Gas And Trust God
Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me.
Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror.
You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.
As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and Africa. Long after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.
' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky.
I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.
She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall.
She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
How sad, a heart that does not know how to love, that does not know what it is to be drunk with love. If you are not in love, how can you enjoy the blinding light of the sun, the soft light of the moon?
The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour.
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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.
So shines a good deed... in a weary world.
It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze. The day on which you are without passionate love is the most wasted day of your life.
Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world.
The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
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.
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us.
Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.
Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.
Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness;
nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light
Dont look to the sky for fireworks when you can watch them light up in the eyes of all the people passing by.
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church.
But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”
I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country.
.. You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
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.
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.
If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.
