J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines.

We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us.

Maybe we could learn a little lesson, maybe this all shine a little light, cause there's no healthy way to mess with the line between wrong and right.

Deep in our Hearts, the Light of Heaven is shining.

Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.

In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.

No matter how you are feeling, get up every morning and prepare to let your light shine forth.

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine. Nay, the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable.

Be light, light, light - full of light!

Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.

What's the point of a spark of light if it stands alone? The key is, and will always be, synergy. Without it, each and every light being will forever feel broken, misplaced, and internally crippled.

Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.

A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it.

Yes, light, there is no other word for it.

I mean, the greatest laugh I always get is, if darkness, right, just overwhelms the Earth one day and Obama had the key to light, he says, "I have a bill that will bring sunlight," they'd rather live in darkness than have him bring the light.

The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.

European standards of beauty are something that plague the entire world - the idea that darker skin is not beautiful, that light skin is the key to success and love. Africa is no exception.

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel that they are incapable of doing things by themselves. To love someone is to reveal to them their capacities for life, the light that is shining in them.

Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred.