Shining Quotes
1891 Shining quotes by 1274 unique authors
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Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the…
— Geoff Nicholson
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The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.
— Frank Shorter
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The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so…
— Dave Matthews
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The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul. These…
— Tom Robbins
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I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this…
— Mark Twain
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I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his light shine on…
— Elizabeth Moon
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Peace in every step. The shining red sun is my heart. Each flower smiles with me. How green, how fresh all that grows. How cool…
— Nhat Hanh
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What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of…
— Wilferd Peterson
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Love, in the words of the Master, is the shining commandment: LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
— Wilferd Peterson
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...healing comes not from being loving but from being itself. It is not a case of being clear but of clear being. This healing is…
— Stephen Levine
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I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as…
— Michael Faraday
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Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows…
— William Blake
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I have come to light the lamp of love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading…
— Walt Whitman
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There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by…
— Dante Alighieri
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We don't know that we've lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence. Something is missing, we…
— Adam Gopnik
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
— Victor Hugo
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Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand…
— William Wordsworth
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Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner…
— Robert Hunter
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What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children…
— Augustus William Hare
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There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
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... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between the stars, where…
— William Beebe
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This is the day of wonders. The land is covered with trees like a head with hair and behind the ship the sun rises tipping…
— Alice Munro
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