A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home.
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INTERVIEWS
Patricia Raskin Joslyn Wolfe
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In the beginning there was nothing. God said, Let there be light!" And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
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Turn your face
to the light
and the shadows
fall behind you.
~Maori Proverb
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One day, a friend remarked, "You know, we can't see light." So we had a little talk about that, and at the end I was even more mystified than before. Trusty old Google kept me hopping for quite a while as I started down any number of cybertrails all signposted "Light." I learned that without an object on which light can fall, we see only darkness. (I'm still not quite sure what it is that we see when we gaze at a lit lightbulb ~ which is not such a good idea, of course, because it creates dizzying retinal images when you look away.) I also learned that if light were visible, we wouldn't be able to see anything else. That certainly made sense to me, in a kind of circular way.
Well, my friends, I was planning to write a masterful essay on this subject. And then, just to dress up this newsletter; to lighten up, as it were, a serious subject, I started to look up quotations about Light. And I was lost. There seem to be more quotes on this subject than on such humdingers as Wisdom, Life, and Love. And they are so varied and thought provoking that I can't help myself: I'm going to string a few choice ones together like bright, um, lights to illuminate your thinking and maybe your life. Ready?
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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes, and silly people.
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Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
~ Le Corbusier
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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.
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Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
~ Don Henley
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An optimist may see a light where there is none,
but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
~René Descartes
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Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
~Albert Schweitzer
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Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe.
It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.
~Michael Strassfeld
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I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus
when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.
~Mitch Albom
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Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light...
you'll go broke.
~ Chuck Jones
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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 light from within.
~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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What is a soul? It's like electricity... we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.
~Ray Charles
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Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Love is not consolation. It is light.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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