Quotes of: Light-bulb Keyword

La única explicación que encuentro es la de que el amor no era para él una prolongación de su vida pública, sino el polo opuesto. Significaba para él el deseo de ponerse a merced de la mujer amada. Quien se entrega a otro como un soldado que se...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

El hombre lo vive todo a la primera y sin preparación. Como si un actor representase su obra sin ningún tipo de ensayo. Pero ¿qué valor puede tener la vida si el primer ensayo para vivir es ya la vida misma? Por eso la vida parece un boceto. Pero...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light of the morning. She had time to think of him on the Drop, riding Rusher flat out with his bla...

Wizard and Glass

Quoting from Thomas Merton Dialogues With Silence The true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but is one who remains empty because he knows that he can never expect to anticipate ...

The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker's Guide to Extraordinary Living

There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful - a suffering continual - and yet not wanted by God - repulsed - empty - no faith - no love - no zeal. Souls hold no attraction - Heaven means noth...

Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta"

There is a beauty in paradox when it comes to talking about things of ultimate concern. Paradox works against our tendency to stay superficial in our faith, or to rest on easy answers or categorical thinking. It breaks apart our categories by showing...

Nanette Sawyer

And I was your moon because I shined brighter than any other star in your universe and you were my darkness. Without you I could not see the depth of my light and with you I could set the night a glow. So we needed one another—the dark and the ligh...

Shannon L. Alder

Church didn't answer that. Instead he said, "The darkness is all around us. Very few people have the courage to light a candle against it." "I'm not that kind of idealist." "Nor am I. We are of a kind, Captain, and neither of us is holding a candle a...

The King of Plagues

Carl Jung never said: “There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkne...

C.G. Jung

It was frightening, this new clarity of vision: but I felt free at last to know darkness as the other side of light, and that both were needed for sight. And with that thought—it was almost as though I felt it in truth—the shackles of my old impr...

Elizabeth Kerner

Could you see it? Those eyes. Bright yet solemn. Masking her sadness within? Could it be that she will come to know, What may be? A truth in the beauty, Of something so real? Within you, Will she see? See the light so pure, Of what she had never trul...

Haslindah Hashim-Pasic

Martha: [derogatorily, to George] Hey, swamp! Hey swampy! George: Yes, Martha? Can I get you something? Martha: Ah, well, sure. You can, um, light my cigarette, if you're of a mind to. George: No. There are limits. I mean, a man can put up with only ...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

I saw you there, In a dress of virgin white. Like an angel descended from heaven To be here amongst ordinary mortals. I saw you there, Your big, brown eyes. Like the moist soil after the rains Full of hope, courage & life. I saw you there Your dark h...

Love

This morning, light lapped the water as if God had spilt a goblet of molten gold upon a ground of darkest velvet.

Caleb's Crossing

People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.

Captive in the Dark

Where death follows, there’s life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you’ll eventually find the light.

Chance Escape

In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object.

The Creation of Eve

You can suck the life out of someone without ever touching a drop of their blood. --Raphael Sinclair

The Color of Light

Who ever felt canary yellow and light blue are a suitable color should be tarred and feathered.

Chivalry and Malevolence

How dare you say it's nothing to me? Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.

Continuum: Music by John Mayer

People seem to overlook an old man losing his mind if he occasionally made light of it.

Cinder