TT # 45

Dedicated to the festival of lights:

1. We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.  ~Ben Sweetland
2. 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
3. There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.  ~Edith Wharton
4. A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.  ~Plato
5. You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.  ~Antonio Porchia
6. In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.  ~Aaron Rose
7. Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.  ~Charles Simic
8. A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home.  ~Author Unknown     
9. Love is not consolation.  It is light.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche
10. Begin challenging your own assumptions.  Your assumptions are your windows on the world.  Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.  ~Alan Alda
11. What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.  ~Joseph Joubert  
12. No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.  ~Terry Pratchett
13. 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