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Quotes About Brightness

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.
~ Stephen Phillips
I have come to hide you, " darkness told the star. "I'm too bright, " the defiant star replied.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
~ Ovid
It is not so much light that falls over the world extended by your body its suffocating snow, as brightness, pouring itself out of you, as if you were burning inside. Under your skin the moon is alive.
~ Pablo Neruda
beyond the earth and the shadow the brightness of our love will stay alive
~ Pablo Neruda
We sing from this passage, "When we've been there ten thousand years, bright, shining as the sun…." But we should understand that brightness always represents power, energy, and that in the kingdom of our Father we will be active, unimaginably creative.
~ Dallas Willard
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
~ Maya Angelou
Did the sun come out or did you just smile at me?
~ Anonymous
At a very early age I was attracted to light, as most children are.
~ Frederick Lenz
The sun will shine at midnight, and the Great Elephant will not dim it.
~ Wilbur Smith
Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us…
~ Wilkie Collins
Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us, over her lovely face. I
~ Wilkie Collins
tenait, une vive clarté rejaillissait sur ses
~ Wilkie Collins
I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns.
~ China Mieville
Twilight, even remembered twilight, is better than no light at all.
~ China Mieville
Fair as the moon and joyful as the light; Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.
~ Christina Rossetti
This Soon is like a thunderclap. This little word is like the spark that sets off the thunderstorm, and suddenly, for the thousandth part of a second, the whole world is bright beneath this word.
~ Heinrich Boll
I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
~ Helen Keller
Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
~ Helen Keller
Mother, give me the sun.
~ Henrik Ibsen
We can with confidence set a goal to make this Christmas brighter than the last and each year that follows brighter still. The trials of mortality may increase in intensity, yet for us, darkness need not increase if we focus our eyes more singly on the light that streams down on us as we follow the Master. He will lead us and help us along the path that leads upward to the home for which we yearn.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Being in love with someone is like daytime. You know there are other stars our there someplace, but you can only see the sun.
~ Henry Melville
The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow