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Quotes of the Day for 13 December 2004 - Light

Today is Lucia Day in Scandinavian countries - the feast of Saint Lucy, virgin and martyr, believed killed on this day in 304. Her name means light, brightness, shining. The tradition is for the youngest girl to awake early, don a white robe and a crown of lighted candles, and wake the family with song. Less dramatically, I'll bring some light to your morning in these quotes.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off a light.
     - Joyce Carol Oates

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
     - Og Mandino

The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my eye can catch one-million-year-old light. It does no harm to the mystery to know a little about it.
     - Richard Feynman, 1918 - 1988

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
     - Ben Sweetland

Turn up the lights; I don't want to go home in the dark.
     - O. Henry, last words

When in the dark is it better to move or stand still? If still, you won't bump into anything - but you won't find the light either.
     - Norm Howe

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