Pythagoras Quote

Above all things, reverence yourself.

Pythagoras

• Self-discovery

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

Know not to revere human things too much.

Aeschylus

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

Victor Hugo

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

William Butler Yeats

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Charles Dickens

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a light bulb.

Gilda Radner

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Paulo Coelho

• Love

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

Paul Cezanne

I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.

Oscar de la Renta

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

Dustin Hoffman

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Martin Luther

• Flowers

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

Sophocles

• Sacred

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

Aeschylus

My freckles are always there. I think the lighting blows it out. If we had to cover up the freckles, I'd be forever with a thick thing of makeup.

Lucy Liu

I don't know if I was a star. I was certainly working a lot and that was strange because there were good things about it and things that were difficult.

Jennifer Connelly

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Henry David Thoreau

But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.

Richard Serra