101 Inspirational Quotes On Light

 The matrix life has a way in which it darkens many peoples light that shines from within them because they get so caught up in making a living rather than living their dream life. May these quotes inspire you to always let your light shine from within and see the light out in the world so that you may live your dreams.

1. “Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” Maya Angelou

2. “Let light shine out of darkness.” Anonymous

3. “But my darling, there’s no such thing as the light at the end of the tunnel, you must realize that you are the light.” Anonymous

4. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Martin Luther King Jr

5. “Within you is the light of a thousand suns.” Robert Adams

6. “He has those kind eyes that shone with the light of everything will be ok.” Atticus

7. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” Aristotle

8. “We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.” Ernest Hemingway

9. “Give light and people will find the way.” Ella Baker

10. “Be the light that helps others see.” Anonymous

11. “Light up the darkness.” Bob Marley

12. “In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.” Francis Bacon

13. “Following the light of the sub, we left the Old World.” Christopher Columbus

14. “After darkness comes the light.” Cornelius Nepos

15. “If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.” Rumi

16. “There is no darkness so dense, so menacing, or so difficult that it cannot be overcome by light.” Vern P. Stanfill

17. “I shine with love and light in every moment.” Anonymous

18. “If you are the light, you cast away the darkness.” ManHee Lee

19. “Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.” Madeline L’Engle

20. “Light attracts light.” Warsan Shire

21. “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” Desmond Tutu

22. “To love beauty is to see light.” Victor Hugo

23. “An empty lantern provides no light. Self-care is the fuel that allows your light to shine brightly.” Anonymous

24. “All of the lights of the world cannot be compared to a ray of the inner light of the self.” Anonymous

25. “Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” Brene Brown

26. “See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.” Wayne Dyer

27. “Shine your own light. Follow your own path.” Anonymous

28. “Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to the inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to the inner love; it will transform you.” Sri Chinmoy

29. “You may think your light is small, but it can make a huge difference in other people’s lives.” Anonymous

30. “You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.” Oprah Winfrey

31. “Travel light, live light, spread light, be the light.” Yogi Bhajan

32. “No degree of worldly darkness can extinguish the glow of a soul’s inner light.” Wes Fesler

33. “The strongest light is the light that shines within you. Use it to lead the way of your life.” Anonymous

34. “Beauty is a light in the heart.” Khalil Gibran

 35. “When you possess light within, you see it externally.” Anais Nin

36. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

37. “When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

38. “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ― Plato

39. “There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.” ― Bram Stoker, Dracula

40. “Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.” ― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

41. “Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

42. “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

43. “There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in.” ― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

44. “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

45. “To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.” ― Roy T. Bennett

46. “Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

47. “The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

48. “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

49. “We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.” ― Leonora Carrington

50. “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” ― Brene Brown

51. “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.” ― Ezra Pound

52. “It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.” ― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

53. “Each day brings new opportunities, allowing you to constantly live with love—be there for others—bring a little light into someone's day. Be grateful and live each day to the fullest.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

54. “How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

55. “When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin

56. “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.” ― Og Mandino

57. “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” ― Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy

58. “Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.” ― Leonard Cohen

59. “When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.” ― Edward Teller

60. “Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

61. “If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.” ― Romain Rolland

62. “It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.” ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

63. “Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.” ― Walt Whitman

64. “Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost

65. “Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There's no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.” ― Carrie Hope Fletcher

66. “Love is not consolation. It is light.” ― Simone Weil

67. “I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

68. “Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose. ” ― Robin McKinley, Sunshine

69. “I have a little theory that I'd like to air here, if I may. What is it that you think makes you magicians?" More silence. Fogg was well into rhetorical-question territory now anyway. He spoke more softly. "Is it because you are intelligent? Is it because you are brave and good? Is is because you're special?

Maybe. Who knows. But I'll tell you something: I think you're magicians because you're unhappy. A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength.

Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.” ― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

70. “The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it's here is up to us. Journey wisely.”― Alexandra Elle

71. “You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. (Matthew 5:14, The Message)” ― Anonymous, The Message Remix

72. “You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.” ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

73. “May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you... ” ― Robert Fanney

74. “Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

75. “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.” ― C.G. Jung

76. “Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.” ― Jim Carrey

77. “Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.” ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

78. “In the heartfelt mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will visit us, to shine on those sitting in darkness, in the shadow of death, to guide our feet to the way of peace.” ― Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version

79. “Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.” ― Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird

80. “The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.” ― David Wolpe

81. “There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.” ― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

82. “No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.” ― Paulo Coelho

83. “Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.” ― Kamand Kojouri

84. “Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.” ― L.R. Knost

85. “I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.” ― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

85. “Light is more important than the lantern,The poem more important than the notebook” ― Nizar Qabbani 

 86. “Darkness will always try to extinguish the light. The light will always try to repress the darkness.” ― Morgan Rhodes, Rebel Spring

87. “Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.” ― William Blake

88. “The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softnessarmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!” ― George Gordon Byron

89. “The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.” ― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

90. “We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion trying to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.” ― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

91. “I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.” ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

92. “Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.” ― Egon Schiele

93. “The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.” ― Jess C. Scott, The Darker Side of Life

94. “Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.” ― Egon Schiele

95. “When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.” ― Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of Love

96. “The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

97. “the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannont always be sweetness and light.” ― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

98. “Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace” ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

99. “These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.” ― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

100. “Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.” ― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion

101. “Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers.” ― Anthony Liccione