Shining Quotes

1891 Shining quotes by 1274 unique authors

You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so… — Alfred de Musset
I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a… — Jeanette Winterson
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to… — Washington Irving
It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all. But that is… — Alison Croggon
Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or… — David Deida
To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be… — Calvin Coolidge
sometimes, when the sun shines, it scorches. — Melissa de la Cruz
What are we doing to keep the light shining in our own eyes and countenances; Much of that light comes from our discipline dedication and… — James E. Faust
The way of peace is a soul journey. . . . If you can live from the level of your soul, you are doing something… — Deepak Chopra
Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones,… — Francesca Lia Block
I cry. Evil dissolves, and love, like foam; that love. Prattle of children powers me home, my heart claps like the swan’s under a frenzy… — John Berryman
The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it — Ted Dekker
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt… — Ernest Hemingway
Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been. — Jerry Garcia
You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up… — Bruce Sterling
When a woman's face is wrinkled And her hairs are sprinkled, With gray, Lackaday! Aside she's cast, No one respect will pay; Remember, Lasses, remember.… — Ann Rinaldi
I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in… — Stephen King
When thou are not pleased, beloved, Then my heart is sad and darkened, As the shining river darkens When the clouds drop shadows on it!… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he… — Sherman Alexie
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness… — Charlotte Bronte
The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken. — Jan Karon
He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful. — Don DeLillo
Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like… — Wendell Berry
The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy. — Jodi Picoult

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