Quotes by Light We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel that they are incapable of doing things by themselves. To love someone is to reveal to them their capacities for life, the light that is shining in them. Jean Vanier crushshininglight Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate. Jean Vanier hatelightdarkness Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space. Jeanette Winterson lightblueyears One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by. Jeannette Walls each-daylightsummer Put on light-coloured clothes and some perfume, take care of your body and do everything you can to fight against the forces of darkness. It is not an easy struggle, but it is worthwhile. Jean Vanier fightinglightstruggle Bud Light....the perfect beer for marketers about to lose their job. Jeff Barrett lightbeerjobs Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the earth is not flat but my feet are. I know that space is curved but my brain has been condoned by habit to grow in a straight line. What I call light is my own blend of darkness. What I call a view is my hand-painted trompe-l'oeil. I run after knowledge like a ferret down a ferret hole. My limitations, I call the boundaries of what can be known. I interpret the world by confusing other people's psychology with my own. Jeanette Winterson lightviewsrunning Light years beyond anything I expected or dared to hope for! Jeff Belanger light-yearslightyears Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light. Jeff Bridges clotheslightreal The only goal is in the process. The process is the thing…with little flashes of light here and there. Those are the gigs, those are the live shows. But it's the life in between—that's all I got. Jeff Buckley here-and-therelightgoal But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that. Jeanette Winterson lightdarkneeds Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's claws and you their furniture. Let me see the wounds that they denied. The battle ground of family life that has been your body. Let me see the bruised red lines that signal their encampment. Let me see the routed place where they are gone. Lie beside me and let the seeing be healing. No need to hide. No need for either darkness or light. Let me see you as you are. Jeanette Winterson lighthealinglying Don't be afraid of your dark places. ... If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there. Jeannette Walls shininglightdark Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there Jeanette Winterson bodylightsecret Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself. Henry David Thoreau geniuslightdarkness I saw something stupid in the paper today - a new alarm clock that makes no noise. It's for people who don't like loud noises. Instead, it slowly hits you with light and gets brighter and brighter until you wake up. I already have one of those... it's called a window. Jay Leno lightstupidfunny In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder. Jeanette Winterson phoneslighthome Your perception of the world is ... really a fabrication of your model of the world. You don't really see light or sound. You perceive it because your model says this is how the world is, and those patterns invoke the model. It's hard to believe, but it really is true. Jeff Hawkins perceptionlightbelieve The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind. Jeff Healey threelightyears I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits. Jean-Jacques Rousseau lightdoubtphilosophy«192193194195196197198199200201202»
