Giving Light Quotes:

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

- Alice Walker

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Maintaining Peace, Personal Power

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Inspiring, Confidence, Children, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

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

source: "The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino, 1968.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Stars, Spiritual Darkness, Spiritual Light

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

source: A Few Figs from Thistles "First Fig" l. 1 (1920)

topic: Love, Night, Light, Candle Lights, Candles Burning

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Love, Funny, Women, Jesus Inspirational, Stewards

What is to give light must endure burning.

- Viktor E. Frankl

source: Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.57, Souvenir Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Spirit And Soul, Spiritual Light

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

- Mao Zedong

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Joy Of Giving, Kindness Generosity

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Life, Encouraging, Time, Giving Love, Small Things In Life

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

- Desiderius Erasmus

topic: Inspirational, Uplifting, Light, Darkness To Light, Light And Dark

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

- Leonard Cohen

source: Song: Anthem

topic: Life, Motivational, Inspiring, Hope And Faith, Darkness To Light

I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. 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

source: Song: Anthem

topic: Running, Prayer, Light, Light Up, Depression Inspirational

Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

- Ramana Maharshi

topic: Mean, Light, Giving, Correcting, Giving Light

Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving light, dying.

- Sara Teasdale

source: Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

topic: Moon, Clouds, Light, Giving Light

We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us.

- Catherine McAuley

source: Catherine McAuley (2017). “A Shining Lamp: The Oral Instructions of Catherine McAuley”, p.8, CUA Press

topic: Light, Giving, Shining, Giving Light

This morning take a few minutes to reflect on how you give of yourself to the world. Often we get caught up in the frenzy of buying and giving things. Look at the ways you give appreciation, friendship, energy, time, love, and affection, and give of your own special talents and abilities throughout the year. Acknowledge yourself for having enriched the lives of others. Spend some time loving yourself for the giving light that you are.

- Shakti Gawain

source: Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

topic: Appreciation, Morning, Loving Yourself, Special Talents, Love And Affection

It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Depression, Light, Giving, Giving Light

The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

- Francis Bacon

source: "Essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, and the two books Of the proficience and advancement of learning".

topic: Stars, Men, Light, Giving Light

A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Thinking, Light, Giving, Lighthouse, Giving Light

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

- Carl Jung

topic: Marriage, Two, Fire, Giving Light

You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.

- Josemaria Escriva

topic: Light, Flames, Giving, Bonfire, Giving Light

As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and Africa. Long after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people

- Kwame Nkrumah

topic: Ghana, Light, Long, Giving Light

When you are the Spirit, you are like a brilliant diamond, which is giving light by itself.

- Nirmala Srivastava

topic: Love, Wisdom, Yoga, Giving Light

The meditation I am talking about is not a meditation on something. If you light a lamp and remove all the objects surrounding it, the lamp will still go on giving light. In the same way, if you remove all objects from your consciousness, all thoughts, all imagination, what will happen? – only consciousness will remain.

- Rajneesh

topic: Light, Talking, Giving, Giving Light