All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.

—Fred Rogers

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

—Martin Luther King, Jr

Even a small star shines in the darkness.

—Finnish proverb

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

—Rabindranath Tagore

Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light / Adorns and cheers our way / And still, as darker grows the night, / Emits a brighter ray.

—Oliver Goldsmith

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 within.

—Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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

—Edith Wharton

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

—Buddha

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

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

—Ben Sweetland

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.

—Patrick Overton