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"When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives."
"As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness."
"In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light."
"It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do."
"The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day."
"Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities."
"There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light."
"Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light."
"And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started."
"If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour."
"It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead."
"As I play the game of life, I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night, The magic of the music seems to light the way."
"Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political economy (and therefore knew it ill) have taken upon themselves to advise, and could only do so by such lights as they had."
"Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives."
"Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows."
"Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life."
"maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--"
"Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived at a stage in life so rich in new perceptions that cannot be transmitted to those at another stage - one feels at the same time full of so much gentleness and so much despair - the enigma of this life grows, grows, drowns one and crushes one, then all of a sudden in a supreme moment of light one becomes aware of the sacred."
"Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating."
"No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights."
