Quotes About Brightness

You pessimists always fall into the disillusion trap," said the cheerful man cheerfully. "From one distance a thing looks bright. From another it looks dark. You think you've found the truth when you've replaced the cheerful view by the opposite, but true profundity blends all possible views, bright as well as dark.

The Tibetan Book Of The Dead, where the departed soul is described as shrinking in agony from the Clear Light of the Void, and even from the lesser tempered lights in order to rush headlong into the comforting darkness of self-hood as a reborn human being, or even as a beast, an unhappy ghost, a denizen of hell. Anything rather than the burning brightness of unmitigated reality -- Anything!

E' terribilmente difficile restare aggrappati alla propria dignità quando il sole sorto è troppo luminoso per i suoi occhi deboli, ed era questo a cui pensavo mentre andavamo a caccia di cattivi per le rovine di una città inesistente.

she knew that this man, this mechanic, this fixer of machines with their broken hearts, did indeed love and admire her—was like walking in the sunshine;

At last, the luminous match was struck and the day was lit.

Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

Gratitude is looking on the brighter side of the life, even if it means hurting your eyes.

I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.

When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.

They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

My favorite star fact is: stars die but can keep on glowing. I like stubbornness in a star.

I heard now the fear in their brightness. It trickled along underneath them like a secret spring.

Art boy is obviously intimidated. You're like the sun and he's squinting up at you, barely able to see because of your blinking radiance

But don't raise your eyes in defiance, Protect my life, my dear. They're brighter than first violets, But deadly to me, I fear.

What if we accept these points of light, their translucence, their brightness; what if we let ourselves enjoy this, stop fearing it, get used to it; what if we come to believe in it, to expect it, to be impressed upon by it; what if we take hope and forgo our ancient heritage and instead, and infused, begin to entrain with it, with ourselves then to radiate it; what if we do that, get educated up to that, and then, just like that, the light goes off or is snatched away?

There was a light in

Why was I led astray by a tiger brightness? Why did a false sun lure me so far from home?...my eyes had looked at something forbidden and seen what they should never have seen, and now sight itself had gone out of them…never again would I see the blinding glare of enemy eyes.

Only the bellying treetops surrounding the campground are darker than the sky. I let the light go without protest; I am so filled with it right now. It makes me feel transparent, like bright glass, like a window open wide.

The room was bright and white and still and silent, but soundless sound roared and howled in it.

MEGARA: You love the light so much? AMPHITRYION: I do, I love its hopes.

You love the light so much? I do, I love its hopes.

The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.