Quotes About Brightness

What if an infection was a message, a brightness a kind of symphony? As a defense? An odd form of communication? If so, the message had not been received, would probably never be received, the message buried in the transformation itself. Having to reach for such banal answers because of a lack of imagination, because human beings couldn't even put themselves in the mind of a cormorant or an owl or a whale or a bumblebee.

A lighthouse was a fixed beacon for a fixed purpose; a person was a moving one. But people still emanated light in their way, still shown across the miles as a warning, an invitation, or even just a static signal. People opened up so they became a brightness, or they went dark. They turned their light inward sometimes, so you couldn't see it, because they had no other choice.

Then, too, that other effect of the spores, the brightness in my chest, continued to sculpt me as I walked, and by the time I reached the deserted village that told me I was halfway to the lighthouse, I believed I could have run a marathon. I did not trust that feeling. I felt, in so many ways, that I was being lied to.

Ten is the most sunlit moment of growing up.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest 'weaknesses'; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

I always see everything in a positive light.

I want to represent positivity and I want to represent the good.

Things look much brighter in the morning.

Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows.

Why not see which is brighter: your aura or the sun?

You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll be like sunshine to me.

You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll always be like sunshine to me.

I'm sad because you remind me of home. Because you are beautiful and bright and dynamic and whole lot of other things I haven't seen for a long time... and won't see again anytime soon.

Think reds, orange, yellows, greens, purple, blue — the darker and deeper the colors, the better they are for you.

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it could be.

In alchemy one goes through four stages of development: the nigredo, in which one experiences the darkness and depression of life; the albedo, in which one sees the brightness of things; the rubedo, where one discovers passion; and finally the citrino, where one appreciates the goldenness of life.

I use Cheer. I like the idea of a happy wash.

You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.

Los chicos, comprendió, se planteaban la amistad de la misma forma que el sol: daban por sentada su existencia y disfrutaban de su resplandor, pero nunca lo contemplaban directamente.

As daylight steadily bleached darkness from the sky…

Things that burned bright burned short.

Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.