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You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.
Richard Bach

Different, Same, Study

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
Thomas Merton

Live, Hell, Consider

As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
Marianne Williamson

God, Fighting, Become

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
Lord Byron

Love, Allah, Fire

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

Darkness, Sorrow, Truly

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Anton Chekhov

Broken, Tell, Show

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Augustus Hare

Wise, Heaven, Intellect

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Evil, Person, Through

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T. S. Eliot

Darkness, Shall, Dancing

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Night, Rather, Troubles

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Speak, Dumb, Troubles

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman

Art, Sunshine, Expression

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Learn, Less, Suffer

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.
Layne Staley

Life, Suffering, Won

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine

Experience, Mind, Thoughts

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
Tiger Woods

Life, Positive, Person

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
Soren Kierkegaard

Good, Great, Death

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
William Blake

Become, Face, Star

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose Bierce

Age, Experience, Youth

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
Michel de Montaigne

Confidence, Integrity, Honesty

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Love, Her, Whether

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Cause, Wrongs, Benefits

I live and love in God's peculiar light.
Michelangelo

Love, God, Live

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
Cat Stevens

Peace, Great, Hope

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love, Mother, Heart

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac Asimov

Science, Single, Anywhere

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
John Burroughs

Beautiful, Old, Last

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon

Fame, Solid, River

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Benjamin Disraeli

Learning, Liberty, Place

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

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