101+ Epic Quotes About Light

When you find the inner light, the light inside of you, you discover who you truly are. This epic collection of quotes about light will inspire and lift you up out of the darkness.

You’ll find your purpose, which is to just be you. Darkness is a part of life and light usually is right around the corner.

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When we finally find the light again, we can move forward in happiness. We all face challenges and dark times.

Without the darkness in our lives, we can not fully appreciate the light or the good times.

Here you will find some uplifting light quotes to help you recognize the light with in.

Beautiful Quotes About Light And Darkness

1. “There is no denying that there is evil in this world but the light will always conquer the darkness.”

Idowu Koyenikan

2. “The dance between darkness and light will always remain – the stars and the moon will always need the darkness to be seen, the darkness will just not be worth having without the moon and the stars.”

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

Sir Francis Bacon
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4. “In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.”

Aaron Rose

5. “Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.” | Darkness and Light Quotes
Desiderius Erasmus

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6. “Your path is illuminated by the light, yet darkness lets the stars shine bright.”

J.L.W. Brooks

7. “We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining – they just shine.”

Dwight L. Moody

8. “Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.”

Marianne Williamson

9. “Light is the symbol of truth.”

James Russell Lowell

Quotes About Light From The Bible

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10. “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
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11. “When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” | Light Of The World Quotes

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12. “And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” | Bible Verses About Light

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13. “The people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.”

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14. “Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of the light.”

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15. “Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.” | Inner Light Quotes
– Sogyal Rinpoche

16. “All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide; but a hidden star can still be smiling at night’s black spell on darkness.”

Munia Khan
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17. “Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and light to conquer it.”

Amit Ray

18. “As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.”

Mary Anne Radmacher

19. I preach darkness. I don’t inspire hope-only shadows. It’s up to you to find the light in my words.”

Charles Lee

20. “Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light.”

Alan Brennert

21. “When you possess light within, you see it externally.” | Quotes About Inner Light

Anas Nin

22. “The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness.”

Brian A. McBride

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23. “I was made to rule the darkness.”

Rae Hachton

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24. “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 with us.”

Alan Schweitzer
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25. “There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” | Quotes About Candle Light

Edith Wharton

26. “A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.”

Thomas Jefferson
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27. “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

Buddha

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28. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

29.” 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

30. “If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world. “

Chinese Proverb

31. “No degree of worldly darkness can extinguish the glow of a soul’s inner light. “

Wes Fesler
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32. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

-Aristotle

33. “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. “

Desmond Tutu

34. “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

35. “Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.”

Jean Vanier

36. “You can’t discover light, by analyzing the dark.”

Wayne Dyer

37. “In the light we read the inventions of others in the darkness we invent our own stories.”

Alberto Manguel
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38. “We are indeed the light of the world — but only if our switch is turned on.”

John Hagee

39. “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

40. “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”    

Ralph Waldo Emerson

41. “It’s not necessary to blow out your neighbor’s light to let your own shine.”

M.R. Dehaan

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

Rumi

43. “I think we all have light and dark inside us.”

Sean Penn
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44. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

Rumi

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45. “It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

46. “Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.”

Maya Angelou

47. “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

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

Atticus

49. “Give light and people will find the way.” | Light Quotes
– Ella Baker

50. “Be the light that helps others see.”

Anonymous

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

Vern P. Stanfill

52. “Shine your own light. Follow your own path.”

Anonymous

53. “When you possess light within, you see it externally.”

Anais Nin

54. “The dark and the light, they exist side by side. Sometimes overlapping, one explaining the other. The darkened path is as illuminated as the lightened… “

Raven Davies

55. “However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”

Stanley Kubrick

56. “After darkness comes the light.”

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57. “Though the light shines on things unclean, yet it is not thereby defiled.”

Augustine

58. “We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.”

Ben Sweetland

59. “If you believe in light, you’ll be in light, you don’t have to face darkness.”

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

60. “Don’t fight darkness – bring the light, and darkness will disappear.”   

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Light And Darkness Quotes

61. “Gorgeous, glowing rays of light…This was what true beauty and goodness looked like– a spectral, luminescent gathering of beings so pure it hurt to look directly at them, like the most glorious eclipse, or maybe Heaven itself.”

Lauren Kate

62. “There’s a sorrow and pain in everyone’s life, but every now and then there’s a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.”

Hubert Selby, Jr.

63. “Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.”

Franz Grillparzer

64. “Every moment of light and dark is a miracle. ”

Walt Whitman

65. “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

Victor Hugo

66. “Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.”

Eberhard Arnold

67. “The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.”

Henry Ward Beecher

68. “Daylight follows a dark night.”

Proverb

69. “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

70. “When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”

Ursula K. Le Guin

71. “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”

Mark Twain

72. “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”

Anne Frank

73. “When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.”

Wilma Rudolph
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74. “In the midst of darkness, light persists.”

Mahatma Gandhi

75. “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

76. “Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.”

Jimmie Davis

77. “The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.”

Henry Ward Beecher

78. “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

79. “Why not dare yourself to become a shining positive light where darkness is the only thing known?”

Edmond Mbiaka

80. “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

81. “Is there anything more loyal than the sun?”

Mary Oliver

80. “Know that darkness is merely the absence of light. You can be the small candle that defeats the vast darkness.”

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Inner Light Quotes

83. “There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment around us. The task is to control the environment within us.”

Joan D. Chittister

84. “Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected. When you feel inspired you find yourself thrust into a world where ordinary objects and events are full of light, as if illuminated from within. This inner light is truth, and when you suddenly see the truth, we gain insight, clarity, and joy.”

Deepak Chopra

85. “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, It will divinize you, it will immortalize you.”

Sri Chinmoy

86. “Healing is not necessarily about curing. As your inner light grows – anything is possible.”

Alberto Villoldo

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

Wes Fesler

88. “Inner darkness, which we call ignorance, is the root of suffering. The more inner light that comes, the more darkness will diminish. This is the only way to achieve salvation or nirvana.”

Dalai Lama

89. “Books suggest the inner light and the method of bringing that out, but we can only understand them when we have earned the knowledge ourselves. When the inner light has flashed for you, let the books go, and look only within. You have in you all and a thousand times more than is in all the books. Never lose faith in yourself, you can do anything in this universe. Never weaken, all power is yours.”

Swami Vivekananda

90. “Blessed are those who have known meditation. Only those few people are the blessed people; others are simply groping in darkness. Meditation gives you an inner light, and then wherever you are there is light and whatsoever you do, you do in full light and clarity. Hence there is never any guilt, no repentance, no looking back. Whatsoever one does, one feels that`s the only thing that can be done. It is always right.”

Rajneesh

91.”We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day – sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.”

Bruce Lee

92. “Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God’s blessing, or human quality. This is the essence of mankind.”

Dalai Lama

93. “Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the something you do daily.”

Mike Murdock

94. “Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.”

Paracelsus

95. “Foster and polish the warrior spirit while serving in the world; illuminate the path according to your inner light.”

Morihei Ueshiba

96. “Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.”

Yann Martel

97. “It’s in the darkest moments when the cracks allow the inner light to come out.”

Edward James Olmos

98. “Inside we are all Golden Buddha’s, but we grew to believe we were made of clay. Our ego’s false perceptions led us to grow into a belief system that covered our inner light. We’ve spent years, maybe decades, masking our truth. Now it’s time to embrace our light and reconnect with our Golden Buddha within.”

Gabrielle Bernstein

99. “Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.”

B.K.S. Iyengar

100. “The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.”

Frank O’Connor

101. “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”

Carl Jung

102. “It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Frederick Douglas

103.” I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”

Abraham Lincoln

104. “The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.”

Robert Baden-Powell

105. “Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”

Helen Keller

106. “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

107. “Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.”

Helen Keller

108. “Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”

Albert Camus

109. “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

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