Shining Quotes
1891 Shining quotes by 1274 unique authors
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Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman…
— Unknown Author
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Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.
— Ellen Hopkins
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Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and…
— John Donne
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As she stood before Aragorn she paused suddenly and looked upon him, and her eyes were shining. And he looked down upon her fair face…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose.…
— Donald Miller
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The people are immensely likable— cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They have…
— Bill Bryson
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Chloe-lass: If I'm not here with you now, I'm beyond this life, for 'tis the only way I'll ever let you go. ... I hoped…
— Karen Marie Moning
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If I should see your eyes again, I know how far their look would go -- Back to a morning in the park With sapphire…
— Sara Teasdale
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From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand, From my own…
— Sara Teasdale
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As dew leaves the cobweb lightly Threaded with stars, Scattering jewels on the fence And the pasture bars; As dawn leaves the dry grass bright…
— Sara Teasdale
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I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Your soul shines through even if you haven't got mascara on
— Louise Rennison
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart" "It is not my ability, but…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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Even someday when we disappear... ...and new Sailor Senshis are born... Sailor Moon, you will always be Invincible. The most beautiful shining star.
— Naoko Takeuchi
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Art glows with faith even in its weakest parts. At every moment, writing is an act of self-confidence – the sheerest, most determined, most stubborn…
— Kristin Cashore
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Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster,…
— Anne Lamott
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...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
— Thomas Paine
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Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were flesh equivalent But love is…
— Emily Dickinson
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Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned this from each…
— Tana French
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Even this late it happens the coming of love, the coming of light. You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves, stars…
— Mark Strand
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On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines…
— Elizabeth von Arnim
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But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was,…
— Homer
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[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter…
— Lorrie Moore
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