I’m aware that lighthouses serve a practical purpose, where land and water collide, but symbolically, they offer a message of hope and determination when facing adversity.
There are times when the ocean is not the ocean-not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: ferocity on a scale only gods can summon. It hurls itself at the island, sending spray right over the top of the lighthouse, biting pieces off the cliff. And the sound is a roaring of a beast whose anger knows no limits. Those are the nights the light is needed most. ― M. L. Stedman
It’s because a lighthouse is two-faced, and this is how she feels each time she visits. A lighthouse is both an invitation and a warning. A lighthouse says Welcome home. But next to that, right after that, it also says Danger. ― Nathan Hill
Knowing when and how to change course is important to success. Self-doubt is a lighthouse that will keep you from running aground. Don’t become shipwrecked on the rocks of time. Be willing to rethink your decisions and change course. ― Harley King
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. ― Anne Lamott
By spreading knowledge you can live forever. You can be the lighthouse that guides people to safety; a light in the darkest of times. ― Zachariah Renfro
Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other. ― Virginia Woolf
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ― Edith Wharton
Don’t stand in the shadows of the past move into the LIGHT of the future. ― Syed Sharukh
If you cannot change the course of a storm, be the lighthouse. ― Ronn Daigle
These photographs of British lighthouses were purchased for The Mariners’ Museum Collection in 1936 from Bertram M. Chambers, an admiral in the Royal Navy.
Francis Frith took up photography in the early 1850s and was one of the first to photograph in Egypt and the Middle East. He maintained a successful business throughout his life.
Gibson & Sons are best remembered for their photography of shipwrecks along the British coastline in the mid to late 19th century .
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