109 Light Quotes Which Can Illuminate Your True Potential

When you discover the light that lays without you, your entire world can open up. Chances are that you’ll discover the ultimate purpose of why you here and what you’re ready to accomplish.

This space of light helps us beam both inwards and outwards with joy, love, happiness, peace and even prosperity. This power resides within each and every one of us where we’re able to move forward on our own divine path.

I hope this list of quotes brightens your day so you can find yourself back on the right path.

1. If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.

Rumi

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

Desmond Tutu

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

Wilma Rudolph

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

Marianne Williamson

5. Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.

Jimmie Davis

6. The light shines in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.

Bible

7. In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Aaron Rose

8. In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Sir Francis Bacon

9. Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

Anne Frank

10. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

Brene Brown

11. Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

Benjamin Franklin

12. Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.

J.R.R. Tolkien

13. There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton

14. My first memory is of light — the brightness of light — light all around.

Georgia O’Keeffe

15. The sun shines on everybody. You’ve got to keep believing.

Dontrelle Willis

16. You have to be transparent so you no longer cast a shadow but instead let the light pass through you.

Kamand Kojouri

17. 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

18. Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

Leo Tolstoy

19. When sun shines, it not only brightens our day; it enlightens us, our soul, cleansing it of the gloominess that the night’s darkness had brought in.

Tista Ray

20. The people who love you will guide you like bright lights into the other worlds.

Josephine Angelini

21. In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Aaron Rose

22. Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

Madeline L’Engle

23. A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.

Thomas Jefferson

24. May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns… and may the moonshadow never fall on you…

Robert Fanney

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

Henry Ward Beecher

26. Love is not consolation. It is light.

Simone Weil

27. When you possess light within, you see it externally.

Anas Nin

28. Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.

William Arthur Ward

29. All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Francis of Assisi

30. Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

Sogyal Rinpoche

31. Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

Charles Barkley

32. 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

33. You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.

Oprah Winfrey

34. As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.

Mary Anne Radmacher

35. Most of us are imprisoned by something. We’re living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

Wynonna Judd

36. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle

37. There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.

James Thurber

38. There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

Rumi

39. Give light and people will find the way.

Ella Baker

40. The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.

Shannon L. Alder

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

Eberhard Arnold

42. Darkness will always try to extinguish the light. The light will always try to repress the darkness.

Morgan Rhodes

43. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Margaret Fuller

44. Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Kahlil Gibran

45. Light is the symbol of truth.

James Russell Lowell

46. Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

Kate DiCamillo

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

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

48. Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Christopher Columbus

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

Franz Grillparzer

50. Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.

Rumi

51. Life isn’t just about darkness or light, rather it’s about finding light within the darkness.

Landon Parham

52. The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

53. A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light!

Mehmet Murat ildan

54. 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

55. Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

Oprah Winfrey

56. The sun always shines above the clouds.

Paul F. Davis

57. To see a candle’s light one must take it into a dark place.

Ursula K. Le Guin

58. 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

59. The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

George Sand

60. 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

61. One idea lights a thousand candles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

62. Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby.

Ruth E. Renkel

63. Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

Leo Tolstoy

64. Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.

Grateful Dead

65. 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.

66. 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

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

Wes Fesler

68. Every little candle is a great knight fighting against the darkness! Every time you feel yourself tiny, remember these brave candles!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Ben Sweetland

70. You can curse the darkness or light a candle. The choice is yours.

Patrick Kane

71. 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

72. We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

John F. Kennedy

73. Know that when you live joyfully, you radiate your light into the world.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

74. There isn’t enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle.

Robert Alden

75. Is there anything more loyal than the sun?

Mary Oliver

76. The path of light is the quest for knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

77. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

78. For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don’t need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.

Mike Norton

79. There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.

N.P. Willis

80. You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.

Shannon L. Alder

81. Your path is illuminated by the light, yet darkness lets the stars shine bright.

J.L.W. Brooks

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

Vern P. Stanfill

83. Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.

Maya Angelou

84. 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

85. A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Denis Waitley

86. 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

87. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Carl Jung

88. We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

Earl Nightingale

89. There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

Bram Stoker

90. Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Maori Proverb

91. It’s not necessary to blow out your neighbor’s light to let your own shine.

M.R. Dehaan

92. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Buddha

93. There is nothing in the dark that isn’t there when the lights are on.

Rod Serling

94. He who does not see the light in others does not see the light in himself.

Doreen DeVore

95. 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

96. No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you’ll find the positive side of things.

Demi Lovato

97. As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

Marianne Williamson

98. It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

Stephen King

99. Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Desiderius Erasmus

100. When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.

Amit Ray

101. We are indeed the light of the world — but only if our switch is turned on.

John Hagee

102. Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There’s no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.

Carrie Hope Fletcher

103. We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on that’s who we really are.

Sirius Black

104. An age is called “dark,” not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it.

James Michener

105. No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.

Robert Jordan

106. It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

107. If we only look within, we will see the Light as if we were seeing our own image in a mirror.

Sri S. Satchidananda

108. If you can walk on the light, you get endless paths to go anywhere in the universe!

Mehmet Murat ildan

109. Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.

Yogi Bhajan