Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird! — Jenny Lind Copy Share Image
I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“I saw that the bride within the bridal dress has withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I see all this talent, all this...this energy and brightness and...potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses,… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
It is not so much light that falls over the world extended by your body its suffocating snow, as brightness, pouring itself… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Withdraw now from the invisible pounding and weaving of your ingrained ideas. If you want to be rid of this invisible turmoil,… — Hongzhi Zhengjue Copy Share Image
It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
Never fear the golding of a sunset. It means more than just the closing of another day. But marks the brightness of… — Oliver James Copy Share Image
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Magic is the power within oneself. You have enough strength, exertion and energy to view things as they are, personally, properly, and… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
What does it cost to lose those weeks, that light, the very nights in the year preferred over all others? Can you… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“It is rather pitiful how obvious it is, and usually how simple it can be, for one to be blunt and critical,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image