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Quotes About Brightness

Vicki shines with intelligence as brightly as with beauty, a clear open face, black eyes, and a smile that makes you see what she looked like as a nine-year-old.
~ Frances Mayes
flashes almost blinding in their intensity.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors and illuminate even the darkness. It is just as easy that way as any in the world.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
The sun shines. Readers read.
~ Roderick Townley
Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.
~ Roman Payne
embracing her now would have been like trying to hug a sunbeam
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I place all Heaven with its power And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness, All these I place By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Once an individual shines bright walking in average light to some may appear as dim surroundings..
~ Victoria Addino, Facets
It has also been observed that an increase in the brightness of fluorescent light leads to higher stress levels by raising cortisol hormone levels.
~ Andreas Moritz
Let there be light. This
~ Andrew Carnegie
Darkness is only light's absence.
~ Andrew Clements
Darkness is only light's absence. -Things that Are
~ Andrew Clements
Is it perhaps a radiation, an emanation of this innocence, this guilelessness, grown white-hot?
~ Andrew Sean Greer
It's hard to reconcile this August with the other one. and to be honest I don't try very hard. I've seen flashes of this August before-This brightness, this conviviality, this generosity of spirit-but I know what he's capable of, and I won't forget it. The others can believe what they like, but I don't believe for a second that this is the real August and the other an aberration And yet I can see how they might be fooled-
~ Sara Gruen
Nada es negro donde luce el sol y el único sitio en que se ve negro es donde no brilla el sol. Lo que la gente de color necesitamos es ser ricos. No hay otra solución.
~ Saul Bellow
Dove c'è molta luce, l'ombra è più nera...
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature, --.... Her song of gratitude is sung by spring's awakening hours, Her summer offers at Thy shrine its earliest, loveliest flowers; Her autumn brings its ripened fruits, in glorious luxury given, While winter's silver heights reflect Thy brightness back to heaven!
~ John Bowring
Everything stayed hidden […] it was all secret – known by anyone who cared to know, but unacknowledged, like a priest's feverish brightness around adolescent boys, or the beatings Mrs Wilson endured on those Saturdays when Dumfermline lost at home(p. 83-84)
~ John Burnside
We should consider that the brightness of the Divine countenance, which even an apostle declares to be inaccessible, (1Ti 6: 16) is a kind of labyrinth — a labyrinth to us inextricable, if the Word do not serve us as a thread to guide our path; and that it is better to limp in the way, than run with the greatest swiftness out of it.
~ John Calvin
Carrying a torch," George Mouse called it, and Auberon, who had never heard the old phrase, thought it just, because he thought of the torch he carried not as a penitential or devotional one, but as Sylvie. He carried a torch: her. She flared brightly sometimes, sank low other times; he saw by her, though he had no path in particular he wanted to see.
~ John Crowley
A joyful life isn't about others; it's about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.
~ Martha Beck
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Cand o vedeai, emana o stralucire care parea o palma foarte violenta peste fata saraciei din cartier.
~ Elena Ferrante