Quotes by Illumination I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers! Johnny Vegas illuminationobsessedhouse In search of love and music Joni Mitchell illuminationdivingcorruption Regrets are illuminations come too late. Joseph Campbell illuminationregretinspirational The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won. Joseph Campbell illuminationnoblesolitude The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach making a painting before. I think that it gets to a richer illumination of the moment, which is what I was trying to do at the beginning but going about it a little backwards. Julie Mehretu illuminationtryingthinking Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds. Karen Hesse illuminationhard-timesodds Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write between these illuminations. Kate Braverman illuminationflare-upwriting I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education. Kate DiCamillo illuminationreadingthinking There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individuals personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived. Lionel Tiger illuminationanxietywish It will be possible, through the detailed determination of amino-acid sequences of hemoglobin molecules and of other molecules too, to obtain much information about the course of the evolutionary process, and to illuminate the question of the origin of species. Linus Pauling illuminationdeterminationscience History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. Lord Acton illuminationsoulmemories One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision. Ludwig von Mises illuminationsobrietyvision We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination. Madeleine L'Engle illuminationlightbook But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens. Marcel Proust illuminationdoorsyears The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination. Mahatma Gandhi ahimsailluminationrealization We must keep in mind that where the road is crooked, God makes it straight, and where our hearts are wounded, God makes us whole. As we open our hearts in purity and simplicity, admitting to God that we are completely powerless in the area of our problem, His illumination redeems us. Marianne Williamson illuminationsimplicityheart The difference between transformation by accident and transformation by a system is like the difference between lightning and a lamp. Both give illumination, but one is dangerous and unreliable, while the other is relatively safe, directed, available. Marilyn Ferguson illuminationdifferenceschange The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way that the physical eyes cannot reveal. In a way that only the heart can reveal: the illumined beauty in another person. Marianne Williamson illuminationeyeheart Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands. May Sarton illuminationsaddepression The sun cares nothing for illumination. Mason Cooley illuminationcaresun«12345678»
