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• The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life….

  Christian D. Larson

  Looks, Sides, Produce

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.285, Penguin

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• There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?

  George Eliot

  Morning, Balance, Despair

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.316, George Eliot

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• Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent brightness.

  Thomas Adams

  Christian, Morning, Light

  "The Sermons of Thomas Adams: The Shakespeare of Puritan Theologians".

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• "Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sorrow, Way, Existence

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• The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

  Emma Donoghue

  World, Next, Minutes

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.188, Pan Macmillan

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• Spirit is not a mystic concept. The spirit of a person is manifest in her aliveness, brightness of his eyes, in the resonance of her voice and in the ease and gracefulness of his movements. These qualities are related to and stem from a high level of energy in the body... Sensing the harmony between the internal pulsation of our body and that in the universe, we feel identified with the universal, with God. We are like tuning forks vibrating at the same pitch

  Alexander Lowen

  Eye, Voice, Quality

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  I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Faith, Peace

  "50 years after receiving Nobel Prize, do Martin Luther King's peace prophecies still resonate?", www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2014.

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• I have brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!

  Jenny Lind

  Bird, Heaven, Soul

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• Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not.

  Ann Demeulemeester

  Fashion, Depressing, Color

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• Daily simple, sincere, and mighty prayers lift our lives to a higher spiritual altitude. In our prayers we praise God, give thanks to Him, confess weaknesses, petition needs, and express deep devotion to our Heavenly Father. As we make this spiritual effort in the name of Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, we are endowed with increased inspiration, revelation, and righteousness, which bring the brightness of heaven into our lives.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Spiritual, Jesus, Prayer

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• I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Wedding, Dark, Mirrors

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• For I had expected always
  Some brightness to hold in trust,
  Some final innocence
  To save from dust

  Stephen Spender

  Hope, Dust, Finals

  1933 'What I Expected, Was'.

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• The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

  Anaxagoras

  Moon, Sun

  Fragment in Plutarch De facie in or be lunae, 929b.

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• I love a bright lip with a neutral eye. Its an easy, wearable look that gives brightness to your face without looking over-the-top.

  Bobbi Brown

  Eye, Giving, Looks

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• Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.

  Thomas Nashe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Queens

  1592 'A Litany in Time of Plague'.

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• More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Light, Sun

  Ryszard Kapuscinski (2016). “The Beginning: Collision, Ghana, 1958”, p.6, Vintage

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• Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link the joy of knowledge to youth's dream? Will ever the day come when Nature becomes the teacher of man, humanity his book and life his school? Youth's joyous purpose cannot be fulfilled until that day comes. Too slow is our march toward spiritual elevation, because we make so little use of youth's ardor.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Wise, Dream

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• My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.

  Charles Richet

  Stars, Science, Nomenclature

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• Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

  Tryon Edwards

  Life, Anger, Anxiety

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.85, Ravenio Books

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• At Tara in this fateful hour, 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

  Fire, Wrath, Rocks

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Nov 14, 2015

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• The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Eye, Night

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.812

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• The mind must be made calm and still. Then it is aimed at the sky, at the brightness, at that infinitude of being that stretches out endlessly in every direction forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sky, Forever, Mind

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• My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground ... very large white pillows.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Quilts, Memories, White

  Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Viking Pr

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• As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Jewels, Degrees, Delight

  Jonathan Edwards (2015). “The End For Which God Created the World”, p.21, Ravenio Books

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• Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds

  e. e. cummings

  Moving, Love Is, World

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