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“Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of light. That's why dead painters shine so bright.”

Firsts Wells Art Light Might Lasts Time Turns Painting Shining Speed Painter Wheels Freeze Brightness Recycling Circulation Wheel Of Time Speed Of Light Freeze Time

Author:Marlene Dumas

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

People Nature Attitude Sun Shining Attraction Law Of Attraction Warmth Brightness

Author:Anthony D. Williams

“When she took her opposite place in the carriage corner, the brightness in her face was so charming to behold, that on her exclaiming, "What beautiful stars and what a glorious night!" the Secretary said "Yes," but seemed to prefer to see the night and the stars in the light of her lovely little countenance, to looking out of window.”

Love Littles Said Light Beautiful Faces Night Stars Window Opposites Corners Lovely Glorious Secretary Charming Brightness Countenance Carriages

Book:The Works of Charles Dickens: Our mutual friend

Source: The Works of Charles Dickens: Our mutual friend

“A beam of God's countenance is enough to fill the heart of a believer to overflowing. It is enough to light up the pale cheek of a dying saint with seraphic brightness, and make the heart of the lone widow sing for joy.”

Heart Enough Light Christian Joy Dying Saint Believer Cheeks Pale Beam Widows Brightness Countenance Lone Light Up

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.”

Character Light Teach Color Warm Impression Purity Yellow Closest Cheerful Comforting Serene Brightness Implying

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.”

Way Littles Light Lost Nature Differences Sun Tree Objects Building Travel Shadow Clouds Atmosphere Covered Surround Shade Fades Outlines Brightness Fade Away Haze

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.”

Light Might Hard Work Encouragement Encouraging Brightness Light Up Bulbs Chandeliers

Author:Jack Welch

“Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them. What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.”

Helping Light Suffering Fall Vision Meditation Brightness Flashlights

Author:Ajahn Chah

“The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of the mind. It's a brightness that is truly sensitive and accepting. It's an ability to accept life as it is. When we accept life as it is, we can respond appropriately to the way we're experiencing it, rather than just reacting out of fear and aversion.”

Way Mind Feelings Ability Accepting Land Pure Empty Caring Sensitive Zero Blank Brightness Reacting Aversion Empty Mind

Author:Ajahn Sumedho

“I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon.”

I Can Gone Noon Brightness

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning.”

Mind Book Ends Night Found Dying Promise Opposites Blue Illness Warning Brightness Fading Inevitability

Book:Blue Nights

Source: Blue Nights

“The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.”

World Sometimes Past Dies Fall Stars Black Shadow Tales Flash Egypt Black History Here And There Brightness Ethiopia Sphinx

Book:The Souls of Black Folk

Source: The Souls of Black Folk

“You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.”

Remember Moving Moved Rate Moving Forward Brightness Guessing

Book:The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir

Source: The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir

“Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look like you; There's in you all that we believe of heaven, Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.”

Men Believe Looks Made Joy Heaven Women Like You Eternal Angel Fairs Lovely Thee Purity Temper Everlasting Without You Brutes Brightness Lasting Love Everlasting Love Lovely Woman

Author:Thomas Otway

“The fullness of Your grace is here with me The richness of Your beauty’s all I see The brightness of Your glory has arrived In Your presence God, I’m completely satisfied For You I sing I dance Rejoice in this divine romance Lift my heart and my hands To show my love, to show my love”

Heart Shows Hands Romance Grace Divine My Heart Glory Satisfied Lifts Rejoice Fullness Richness Brightness Your Presence

Author:Phil Wickham

“Use your light, but dim your brightness.”

Use Light Humility Brightness

Author:Laozi

“Just as gold tarnished in depth (cf. Jms. 5:3) cannot be properly purified and restored to its proper brightness unless it is cast in the fire and thoroughly hammered with mallets, so when the soul has been tarnished with the rust of sin and become thoroughly useless it cannot be cleansed and recover its original beauty unless it meets many trials and enter into the furnace of tribulations.”

Has Beens Soul Christian Sin Fire Gold Originals Depth Casts Trials Useless Orthodox Brightness Rust Tribulation Cfs Furnaces Hammered

Author:Symeon the New Theologian

“Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue; their in-between shades and scales of brightness result in colour schemes containing 16, 64, 256 and 1,024 shades. More colours would be pointless because it wouldn't be possible to distinguish between them clearly.”

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I began to hear my own body: my heart beating, my blood vessels pulsing, even the rustle of my muscles moving over each other seemed audible. There were more stars in the sky than I had expected. The sky was deep black, yet at the same time bright with sunlight.”

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