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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is above all by the imagination
that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To oppose something is to maintain it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is the journey that matters, in the end
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Though I am a servant, I am not your servant.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone;
it has to be made,like bread,
remade all the time, made new.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grant That I May Radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace,
to All Those Around Me
and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
Faith is the bird that feels the light
and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
- The Bible
Words which do not give the
light of Christ increase the darkness.
- Mother Teresa
In your brother is The Light.
See him as sinless,
and there can be no fear in you.
- A Course In Miracles
As we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
Every man must decide whether he will
walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As far as we can discern,
the sole purpose of human existence
is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Jung
Know that darkness is merely the absence of light.
You can be the small candle that defeats the vast darkness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
As we light a path for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light
is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Sadness is nothing more than the absence of joy
in the same way that darkness
is nothing more than the absence of light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am profoundly grateful that the Powers of Light
have chosen ME to be a conduit for Infinite Love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Shine your Light of God wherever you see darkness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo
As a happy person, you radiate happiness to the world.
Visualize your light radiating throughout the world,
passing from person to person until it encircles the globe.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible
in bright moments as well as in trouble,
we cannot fully respond to its consolations
because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
- Helen Keller
All the darkness of the world cannot
extinguish the light of a single candle,
yet one candle can illuminate all the darkness.
- Jewish Hanukah Prayer
Everything is made of light
- don Miguel Ruiz
The real us is pure love, pure light
- don Miguel Ruiz
Know that when you live joyfully,
you radiate your light into the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
So powerful is the light of unity
that it can illuminate the whole earth.
- Baha'u'llah
I will gather myself around my faith,
for light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
God has no religion.
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Honor True Self
Forgive with Compassion
Receive ALL of life with Thanksgiving
CHOOSE with Thoughtful Consideration
Dream with Powerful Vision
Act with Bold Courage
Dance with a Light Heart
Relax in the Arms of Spirit
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dance with a Light Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Affirmation:
I shine my light of happiness into the darkness of negativity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Peace, Love, Health, Comfort, Joy, and the Light of Spirit -
all the rest is nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I am a Mirror for Love and Light,
but never for Anger or Fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is to give light must endure the burning.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I gratefully accept the light and pay it forward.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beyond a doubt, truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Let light shine through the cracks
in the armor of your staunchest beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you arise in the morning,
give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength.
Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living.
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself.
- Tecumseh
The unknown is like the darkness of a cave -
it can be illuminated by the brief light
of one adventurer's small candle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
- Helen Keller
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
I shine my light of happiness
into the darkness of negativity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There can be no transforming of darkness into light
and of apathy into movement without emotion.
- Carl Jung
There is a crack in everything,
that's how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen
I rest in the light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In my joy, I dance with the Light of Lights.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bold Light of Spirit:
Out of the darkness and into the light,
Open our eyes and behold such a sight.
Brilliance of day takes the place of the night,
Boldness and courage are swords of His Might.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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