Brightness Quotes

198 Brightness quotes by 160 unique authors

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 God’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
A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to maxima and minima, thus showing that there is… — Unknown Author
Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude! — Washington Irving
Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link the joy of… — Khalil Gibran
Spirit is not a mystic concept. The spirit of a person is manifest in her aliveness, brightness of his eyes, in the resonance of her… — Alexander Lowen
Those who are called to the table of the Lord must glow with the brightness. — Unknown Author
The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy… — Henry David Thoreau
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd. — John Milton
My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground ...… — Georgia O'Keeffe
He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly… — C.S. Lewis
Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to… — Charles Caleb Colton

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