Brightness Quotes

198 quotes by 160 authors

What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But… — James Dickey
I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm light.… — Jean Craighead George
Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye. — Thomas Nashe
When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's… — Adyashanti
I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the… — Charles Dickens
Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without… — Samuel Johnson
Imitate the habit of twilight,/Taking time to open the well of color/That fostered the brightness of day. — John O'Donohue
Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies… — Blaise Cendrars
Daily simple, sincere, and mighty prayers lift our lives to a higher spiritual altitude. In our prayers we praise God, give thanks to Him, confess… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and… — Tryon Edwards
I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely… — Nikola Tesla
It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful of… — Jesse Owens
Magic is the power within oneself. You have enough strength, exertion and energy to view things as they are, personally, properly, and directly. You have… — Chogyam Trungpa
God's glory is the created brightness that surrounds Godâ€™s revelation of himself. — Wayne Grudem
In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all… — Robert Pinsky
In the stillness of the night, the Goddess whispers. In the brightness of the day, dear God roars. Life pulses, mind imagines, emotions wave, thoughts… — Ken Wilber
More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The… — Vasco Ronchi
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle… — James Gates Percival
On the darkest days you have to search for a spot of brightness, on the coldest days you have to seek out a spot of… — Tahereh Mafi

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