#bright

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#bright #faint #feel #flourish #grows

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#air #breathing #bright #effort #fresh

If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#begin #brighter #brighter future #elected #elected officials

In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#bill #bright #co-operation #conditions #enterprise

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter. ↗

— Sally Ride

#brighter #look #stars

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#bright #eye #face #great #heaven

Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art. ↗

— Jay McInerney

#bright-lights #art

‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#bright #country #education #marriage #smart

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t. ↗

— Jay McInerney

#bright-lights #experience

We are what we believe we are! ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#bright #inspirational #truth #inspirational