Brightness Quotes

• The sun doesn't determine the brightness of the day, you do.

  Kayla Mueller

  Sun, Determine

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• Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.

  Jimmie Davis

  Sunshine, Welcome, My Sunshine

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• The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

  George R. R. Martin

  Flames, Deep Thought, Shadow

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1248, Bantam

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• Use your light, but dim your brightness.

  Laozi

  Humility, Light, Use

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• Like the sun, we are attracted to people who shine with warmth and brightness.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Nature, Attitude, Law Of Attraction

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• The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

  Don Herold

  Learning, Intelligent, Perspective

  Don Herold (1926). “There ought to be a law--”

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• We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Courage, Empowerment

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.

  Jennifer Niven

  Color

  FaceBook post by Jennifer Niven from Jun 29, 2016

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• "Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Perseverance, Genius, Divine

  "The papers of Woodrow Wilson".

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  I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Positive, Stars

  "The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino, 1968.

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• I am a shining star, and I surround myself with people who encourage my brightness.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Stars, People, Shining

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• You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.

  Philippe Starck

  Happy, Depression, Color

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• How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.

  Neal Shusterman

  Light, Judging, Shadow

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “UnWholly”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sunshine, Shade, Quitting

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.240

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• This dark brightness that falls from the stars.

  Pierre Corneille

  Stars, Fall, Dark

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• Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

  Philip Sidney

  Rays, May, Losing

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• A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

  John Lubbock

  Friendship, Cheerful, Sunny Day

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• Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

  Jane Porter

  Happiness, Heart, Mirrors

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• Never fear the golding of a sunset. It means more than just the closing of another day. But marks the brightness of a new dawn.

  Oliver James

  Fear, Sunset, Mean

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• My first memory is of the brightness of light — light all around.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Quilts, Memories, Light

  "An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe".

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• [...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

  James Joyce

  Shining, Darkness

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.29, GENERAL PRESS

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• One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.

  John Muir

  Life, Garden, Shining

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.218, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

  Alan Dundes

  Inspirational, Funny, Christmas

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• 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 in its brightness.

  James Gates Percival

  Air, Poetry, World

  James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1859). “The poetical works of James Gates Percival”, p.1

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Hope, Gone

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1853). “Hyperion, illustr. from drawings by B. Foster”, p.4

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