Shining Quotes

1891 Shining quotes by 1274 unique authors

When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house. — David Suzuki
Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult! — Taylor Swift
An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through. — William Makepeace Thackeray
We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the… — Lewis Thomas
That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is… — Eckhart Tolle
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining… — Desmond Tutu
There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can. — David Viscott
He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first. — Voltaire
God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every… — Ellen G. White
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our… — Marianne Williamson
We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm. — Marianne Williamson
Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying… — James Wolcott
I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that… — Francis Collins
Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is… — A. E. Housman
It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness… — Raymond Chandler
No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within… — Edgar Allan Poe
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. — Betty Friedan
When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous… — Zora Neale Hurston
The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while… — Anne Lamott
Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. — Marianne Williamson
Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. — Mark Twain
A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented… — Gertrude Stein

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