Brightens Quotes

1. "Everyday gratitude sweetens what appears flavorless and brightens all that appears dim."
Author: Amy Leigh Mercree

2. "Winter denial: therein lay the key to California Schadenfreude--the secret joy that the rest of the country feels at the misfortune of California. The country said: "Look at them, with their fitness and their tans, their beaches and their movie stars, their Silicon Valley and silicone breasts, their orange bridge and their palm trees. God, I hate those smug, sunshiny bastards!" Because if you're up to your navel in a snowdrift in Ohio, nothing warms your heart like the sight of California on fire. If you're shoveling silt out of your basement in the Fargo flood zone, nothing brightens your day like watching a Malibu mansion tumbling down a cliff into the sea. And if a tornado just peppered the land around your Oklahoma town with random trailer trash and redneck nuggets, then you can find a quantum of solace in the fact that the earth actually opened up in the San Fernando Valley and swallowed a whole caravan of commuting SUVs."
Author: Christopher Moore

3. "In time I came to see that of the many kinds of wilderness, the human heart can be the bleakest and the most hostile. Many hearts contain great beauty and the smallest measure of darkness. In many other hearts, beauty brightens only remote corners where otherwise darkness rules. There are those in whom no darkness lies, though they are few. And others have purged from their inner selves all light and have welcomed into themselves the void; their kind are to be found everywhere, though they are often difficult to recognize, for they are cunning."
Author: Dean Koontz

4. "Laughter from yesterday that makes the heart giggle today brightens the perspective for tomorrow."
Author: Evinda Lepins

5. "Water drinkers perceive nothing but the crude and material appearance of things, while intoxication, on the contrary, dulls the eyes of the body and brightens those of the soul."
Author: Gérard De Nerval

6. "[A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery."
Author: Isaac Asimov

7. "Love brightens and purifies the heart."
Author: Karen Cushman

8. "A fish cannot drown in water,A bird does not fall in air.In the fire of creation,God doesn't vanish:The fire brightens.Each creature God mademust live in its own true nature;How could I resist my nature,That lives for oneness with God?"
Author: Mechthild Of Magdeburg

9. "The person at the other end of the phone said something. Mr. Croup cringed."Oh. Yes, sir. Yes, indeed. And might I say how your telephonic confabulation brightens up and cheers our otherwise dreary and uneventful day?"
Author: Neil Gaiman

10. "Age isn't triggered by wrinkles,nor by the reduction of strong footing,for the true youth exists effectively in your heart,brightens through your smile and beats slow when your heart is right, innocent like that of a child"
Author: Nwilliams S C

11. "Beh reaches up and touches my cheek."Love," she whispers."Luffs!" I respond, and her smile brightens even more.Without a doubt, I will do anything for her."
Author: Shay Savage

12. "Day now, night now, at head, side, feet,They stand their vigil in gowns of stone,Faces blank as the day I was born,Their shadows long in the setting sunThat never brightens or goes down.And this is the kingdom you bore me to,Mother, mother. But no frown of mineWill betray the company I keep."
Author: Sylvia Plath

13. "When sun shines, it not only brightens our day; it enlightens us, our soul, cleansing it of the gloominess that the night's darkness had brought in."
Author: Tista Ray

14. "I love celery and people don't use it a lot. Celery and flavors in that family - it really brightens and is refreshing."
Author: Todd English

15. "As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day."
Author: Vin Scully

16. "White-crested waves crash on the shore. The masts sway violently, every which way. In the gray sky the gulls are circling like white flakes. Rain squalls blow past like gray slanting sails, and blue gaps open in the sky. The air brightens. A cold silvery evening. The moon is overhead, and down below, in the water; and all around it-a wide frame of old, hammered, scaly silver. Etched on the silver-silent black fishing boats, tiny black needles of masts, little black men casting invisible lines into the silver. And the only sounds are the occasional plashing of an oar, the creaking of an oarlock, the springlike leap and flip-flop of a fish. ("The North")"
Author: Yevgeny Zamyatin

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