18 Illuminating Quotes for You to Enjoy

When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled. Daisaku Ikeda

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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. Henri Matisse

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My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating. Meghan Markle

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We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures. Lincoln Steffens

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Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation. James Turrell

Quality Light Looking Instead Like Revelation Itself Being Illuminating Things

The lightbulb, the most humble and illuminating of all technologies, when combined with a network connection, transforms itself from being a bulb into a wake-up alarm, a mood alteration mechanism, and in some cases, a cupid's assistant. Om Malik

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For me, my one thing is eyelash extensions. I always have them on cause they just do all the work and let everything look better. If I have eyelash extensions on, I will put on some under eye concealer and maybe, like, an illuminating moisturizer and call it a day. Jessie James Decker

Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful. John Polkinghorne

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I think literary theory satisfied a deep love I have for big, encompassing narratives about the world and how it works - which are usually, in the end, more creative visions unto themselves than illuminating explanations. Jennifer Egan

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Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world? Jonathan Safran Foer

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As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness. Alison Gopnik

When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings. Kiri Te Kanawa

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I use Tata Harper Illuminating Eye Cream to depuff my eyes. Devon Windsor

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Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible. Hermann Oberth

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We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime. Peter Abrahams

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