Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
- Anne Lamott

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
- John 1:5

Happy is the heart that still feels pain
Darkness drains and light will come again
Swing open up your chest and let it in
Just let the love, love, love begin
- Ingrid Michaelson

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

- Henry David Thoreau

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams. And you will always look lovely.
- Roald Dahl

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- Buddha

And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by
Like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass.
- Ezra Pound

in celebration of surviving

when senselessness has pounded you around on the ropes
and you’re getting too old to hold out for the future
no work and running out of money,
and then you make a try after something that you know you won’t get
and this long shot comes through on the stretch
in a photo finish of your heart’s trepidation
then for a while
even the chill factor of these prairie winters puts it at fifty below
you’re warm and have that old feeling
of being a comer, though belated
in the crazy game of live

standing in the winter night
emptying the garbage and looking at the stars
you realize although the odds are fantastically against you
when that single January shooting star
flung its wad in the maw of night
it was yours
and though the years are edged with crime and squalor
that second wind, or twenty-third
is coming strong
and for a time
perhaps a very short time
one lives as though in a golden envelope of light
- Chuck Miller

There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world even though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for mankind.
- Hannah Senesh

When you have come to the edge of all the light you have, and step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of the two will happen to you: either you’ll find something solid to stand on, or you’ll be taught how to fly.
- Richard Bach

They say in each life a little rain must fall
But I will carry on and make it through it all
They say in each life a little rain must fall
But I will carry on and make it through it all and
Shine
Even though the stars aren't smiling on me tonight
I won't let the darkness steal the sunshine
Dim the spotlight on my life
Cause the sun's always been a friend of mine
And he and I are gonna part the clouds in the sky
And shine shine shine.

- Sara Haze

At times of distress,
strengthen your
heart.

Even if you stand at
death's door.

The lamp has light
before it is
extinguished.

The wounded lion still
knows how to roar.
- Samuel Hanagid

Down where the city meets the sea
I sit and daylight speaks to me
She carries me away

- The Getaway Plan

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
- William Butler Yeats

And when the night is cloudy
There is still a light that shines on me
Shine on until tomorrow, let it be
- The Beatles

Believe that there's light at the end of the tunnel. Believe that you might be that light for someone else. 

- Kobi Yamada

[via observando]

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
- Theodore Roethke

The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.
- George Orwell