60 Best Light Quotes On Success In Life

These light quotes will inspire you. Light or visible light is electromagnetic radiation within the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is perceived by the human eye. Also, you can be the light in someone’s life and motivate them.

Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging light quotes, light sayings, and light proverbs.

Inspirational Light Quotes

1. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” ~ Maya Angelou
2. “There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are” ~ Deepak Chopra
3. “When you possess light within, you see it externally.” ~ Anais Nin
4. “We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” ~ Marianne Williamson

5. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” ~ Edith Wharton

6. “There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering.” ~ Patanjali
7. “From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” ~ Albert Schweitzer

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

10. “Don’t fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.” ~ Paulo Coelho
11. “I salute the light within your eyes where the whole Universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.” ~ Crazy Horse
12. “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” ~ Og Mandino ,  Light quotes & darkness
13. “Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.” ~ Laini Taylor
14. “There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth.” ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

15. “What is to give light must endure burning.” ~ Viktor E. Frankl

16. “Don’t fear the darkness if you carry the light within.” ~ Sivananda
17. “The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ~ Plato
18. “It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.” ~ Marianne Williamson

19. “Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you.” ~ Jennifer Donnelly

20. “Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
21. “People are like stained – glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
22. “There is a light within each person, and it lights up the whole universe. If it does not shine, there is darkness.” ~ Elaine Pagels
23. “PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to… to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.” ~ Emily Dickinson

24. “Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.” ~ Marianne Williamson

25. “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
26. “He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.” ~ John Milton
27. “Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” ~ Marianne Williamson

28. “As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” ~ Nelson Mandela

29. “Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it’s worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person’s face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing. Stand up and face the east. Now praise the sky and praise the light within each person under the sky. It’s okay to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise.” ~ Miranda July
30. “There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” ~ Marianne Williamson
31. “The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light…It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence.” ~ Marilynne Robinson , Candle light quotes

32. “You are not what you are; You are darkness Looking for light within.” ~ Dejan Stojanovic

33. “The more your appreciate yourself the more you will have the energy from within. Stop sourcing for external energy source to charge yourself. Seek the light within and it will brighten you more, remember you truly are one amazing, beautiful, gorgeous soul.” ~ Revathi
34. “Look what we are trying. You call it dharma, but it is not. What we are trying is to come together; come together to an understanding. The difference is, the discipline is, the commitment is that we are going to come together with the following guiding lines: ‘May the long time sun shine upon you, all love surround you, and the pure light within you guide your way on.’ When we came together we decided we would guide our way on. My way and your way we already know, so we do not need to learn that. Each one of you knows ‘my’ way and ‘your’ way. All we have to learn is ‘our’ way.”” ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi

35. “To find that light within–that’s the genius of poetry.” ~ Julie Harris

36. “Focus your awareness on the Divine spark of crystal-white light, sparkling within the center of your stomach area. See or feel this white spark of light, shining like a pilot light within you. This is the spark of your true essence, your shining flame from God. Feel the warmth within you, filling you completely with love and peaceful energy.” ~ Doreen Virtue , Sending love and light quotes
37. “… poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.” ~ Audre Lorde
38. “Just as there are primary colors from which all of the others come forth when they’re combined, so there are primary vibratory qualities of energy and light within us.” ~ Frederick Lenz

39. “The light within the darkness- you’ve lost sight of it.” ~ Shiro Amano

40. “Visualize a golden light within you and spread it out. First to those about you – your circle of friends and relatives – and then gradually to the world. Keep on visualizing God’s golden light surrounding our earth.” ~ Peace Pilgrim
41. “Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge others by the light that is within ourselves, condemning or approving them by our own conception of right and wrong, honor and dishonor! We show by our judgment just what the light within us is.” ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
42. “In fiber optics, the cable is a light pipe or waveguide, into which you inject light. If a finger presses on the pipe, it disrupts that light within the waveguide.” ~ Jefferson Han

43. “When we don’t allow ourselves to hope, we don’t allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We’ve no light within, and we’re just living to die.” ~ Dean Koontz

44. “But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.” ~ Taylor Caldwell
45. “Rely upon your own judgment; be true to your own conscience; follow the light that is within you; all outward lights are so many will-o’-the-wisps. There will be those who tell you that you are foolish; that your judgment is faulty; that your conscience is all awry, and that the light within you is darkness; but heed them not. If what they say is true, the sooner you, as a searcher of wisdom, find it out the better, and you can only make that discovery by bringing your powers to the test. Therefore, pursue your course bravely.” ~ James Allen
46. “Collect impressions. Don’t be in a hurry to write them down. Because that’s something music can do better than painting: it can centralize variations of color and light within a single picture a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is.” ~ Claude Debussy

47. “Winter is the time of love and of taking the light within.” ~ Terry Taylor

48. “He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!” ~ James Freeman Clarke
49. “Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom’s self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i’ th’ center and enjoy bright day, But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun.” ~ John Milton
50. “The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet they remain the same paintings, ever faithful, ever convincing. To a marvelous extent, they carry their own light within. For their truth is not that of a perfect replica, it is the truth of art.” ~ Ernst Gombrich

51. “He was my tormentor and my solace; the creator of the dark and the light within.” ~ CJ Roberts

52. “Meditate upon all the perfect light within your own mind! Do this repeatedly and the radiant Bodhisattvas of Wisdom and Laughter will visit you and change your karma forever!” ~ Frederick Lenz
53. “I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, ‘What am I supposed to do?’ and she said, ‘Just wait, we’re going inside to greet the light.’ I liked that—this idea to go inside to find that light within, literally as well as figuratively.” ~ James Turrell
54. “… my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than ‘taking authority for truth.'” ~ Lucretia Mott

55. “He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the center and enjoy bright day.” ~ John Milton

56. “Let me say to you, that many of you will see the time when you will have all the trouble, trial, and persecution that you can stand, and plenty of opportunities to show that you are true to God and his work. This Church has before it many close places through which it will have to pass before the work of God is crowned with victory. The time will come when no man nor woman will be able to endure on borrowed light. Each will have to be guided by the light within himself. If you do not have it, how can you stand?” ~ Heber C. Kimball
57. “The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.” ~ Charles Dickens
58. “Lock all communication. If there’s no light within my day. I’d rather stay in isolation. For that special someone a lifetime I’ll wait.” ~ Buju Banton
59. “The terrible thing about TERRORISM is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.” ~ Terry Waite
60. “The genius does not differ from others in their access to the light within, only in their confident acceptance of its natural out streaming.” ~ Eric Butterworth

Summary: Light, something that makes vision possible; the sensation aroused by stimulation of the visual receptors.

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