Luminous Quotes
173 quotes by 134 authors
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Love is the air that I breathe, like oxygen. When I lack it, I feel atrophied, asphyxiated. When I have it, I feel I am…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell. Not being guilty, you will have the freshness of dewdrops in the early…
— Rajneesh
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I am luminous with age.
— Meridel Le Sueur
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When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk…
— Hermann Hesse
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To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I…
— John Ruskin
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You are the luminous mystery in which the entire universe with its forms and phenomena arises and subsides. When this realization dawns there is a…
— Deepak Chopra
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At your most daring moments you believe that what is going on is the ultimate human work the shaping of a soul. The power of…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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If we could learn to live from the level of the soul, we would see that the best most luminous part of ourselves is connected…
— Deepak Chopra
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Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the limitations…
— William J. Brennan
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Normally we empower our demons by believing they are real and strong in themselves and have the power to destroy us. As we fight against…
— Tsultrim Allione
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From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because…
— Rachel Cohn
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To speak about this universal force that will lead us beyond on the last horizon of our known self toward a wiser, more loving, more…
— Arianna Huffington
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A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.
— D. H. Lawrence
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Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.
— Mason Cooley
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I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Whenever asana is done mechanically from the front brain, the action is felt only on the peripheral body, and there is no inner sensation, there…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.
— George Santayana
Who Wrote These Luminous Quotes
134 authors contributed a total of 173 Luminous Quotes, led by these top contributors: