Shining famous quotes
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How can I appreciate light from an aging sun shining through new configurations neither pine nor ash? How can I extol the nuturing fragrances from the spires, the spicules of a landscape not yet formed or seeded?
-- Pattiann Rogers -
Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined, Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power,-- A shining Jacob's-ladder of the mind!
-- Paul Hamilton Hayne -
Possess purity in an eminent degree, and jealously preserve this fragrant flower. I earnestly desire to see you shine by the brilliancy of this virtue; be like to angels, and omit no precaution to retain this treasure, which is so easily lost by imprudence. We have this treasure in earthen vessels, says the Apostle.
-- Paul of the Cross -
Sail on silver girl, sail on by...your time has come to shine all your dreams are on their way...see how they shine..oh and if you need a friend. I'm sailing right behind......
-- Paul Simon -
Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them.
-- Paulo Coelho -
If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth.
-- Paulo Coelho -
Your personal vibration or energy state is a blend of the contracted or expanded frequencies of your body, emotions, and thoughts at any given moment. The more you allow your soul to shine through you, the higher your personal vibration will be.
-- Penney Peirce -
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Do not be depressed. Do not let your weakness make you impatient. Instead, let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face. Let the joy of your mind burst forth.
-- Peter Damian -
Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.
-- Peter Guber -
When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.
-- Philip James Bailey -
Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower.
-- Phyllis Smith -
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.
-- Pierre Loti -
Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.
-- Piers Anthony -
Life has been messy for me, as it has for most everyone. I have come to the realization that challenging experiences break us all at some point—our bodies and minds, our hearts and egos. When we put ourselves back together, we find that we are no longer perfectly straight, but rather bent and cracked. Yet it is through these cracks that our authenticity shines. It is by revealing these cracks that we can learn to see and be seen deeply.
-- Ping Fu -
Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
-- Plotinus -
The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
-- Pope Benedict XVI -
The sun don't shine forever, but as long as it's here, then we might as well shine together.
-- Puff Daddy -
Love that shines from within cannot be darkened by obstacles of the world of consequences!
-- Pythagoras -
Empty the cup every time and it comes back at twice as full. I developed that attitude when I was very, very young, when I decided I didn't want to be a gangster anymore. Whether it's just shining shoes, I said okay, I'm going to do this better than anybody else did it in my life.
-- Quincy Jones -
I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too intricate for me to understand, and I knew I could never begin to grasp more than the smallest idea of its purpose. But I sensed that every part of it, from quark to quasar, was unique and - in some mysterious way - significant.
-- R. J. Anderson -
The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.
-- Rabindranath Tagore -
Promise me you’ll marry me. Not now. Someday. Because I need to know.†Claire felt a flutter inside, like a bird trying to fly, and a rush of heat that made her dizzy. And something else, something fragile as a soap bubble, and just as beautiful. Joy, in the middle of all this horror and heartbreak. “Yes,†she whispered back. “I promise.†And she kissed him, and kissed him, and kissed him, while the sun came up and bathed Morganville in one last, shining day.
-- Rachel Caine -
Wanna know what heaven is ? Feeling the sun shine on you... In Paris
-- Rachel Zoe -
If it’s a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it’s going to shine. It’s going to resonate. You could look inside of yourself and you could have a canvas and you could paint a dot in it, but if that is where your creative purpose is taking you then it needs to be that dot.
-- Rainn Wilson -
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed - and the natural state of the mind is pure love.
-- Ram Dass -
Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
-- Ramana Maharshi -
Maybe we could learn a little lesson, maybe this all shine a little light, cause there's no healthy way to mess with the line between wrong and right.
-- Randy Travis -
Take your love and put it where the sun don't shine.
-- Ray Stevens -
SakeThe jewel which brightly shines at nightIs precious, but cannot measure up To the delights of drinking sake,Drowning one's troubles in the cup. Otomo no Tabito
-- Reiko Chiba -
Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well.
-- Richard Bach -
Win by losing. Before your outer walls break, as break they must, build an inner place to protect your truth. Protect that you are infinite life, choosing its playground; protect that the world you know exists with your consent and for your own good reasons; protect that your purpose and mission is to shine love in your own playful way, in the moments you decide will be most dramatic.
-- Richard Bach -
All thy old woes shall now smile on thee, and thy pains sit bright on thee. All thy sorrows here shall shine and thy sufferings be divine; Tears shall take comfort and turn to gems and wrongs repent to diadems Even thy deaths shall live and new dress the soul that once they slew.
-- Richard Crashaw -
I am hopeful that Antarctica in its symbolic robe of white will shine forth as a continent of peace as nations working together there in the cause of science set an example of international cooperation.
-- Richard E. Byrd -
Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; Enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, But is the dance less full of fun?
-- Richard Francis Burton -
During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they move through the green depths of the canopy, like schools of fish.
-- Richard Preston -
My Chevrolet shines like a marble floor. Baby keep it raw, have you modeled before?
-- Rick Ross -
There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.
-- Ricky Skaggs -
Happiness is your True Nature. Within you is Unimaginable Beauty. Your True Self is Bright and Shining this Moment. Through the clear Realization of the Truth, your Real Self will come shining through.
-- Robert Adams -
You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense.
-- Robert Adams -
It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.
-- Robert Anton Wilson -
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
-- Robert Bresson -
I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing in my veins to prompt minimal sentience, to declare my view for the record that Drummer Jokes are a cruel and pernicious form of humour introduced to the world by under-humoured persons lacking in sensitivity and concern for other drummers.
-- Robert Fripp -
Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace.
-- Robert Graves -
A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson -
The way to see what looks good and understand the reasons it looks good, and to be at one with this goodness as the work proceeds, is to cultivate an inner quietness, a peace of mind so that goodness can shine through.
-- Robert M. Pirsig -
Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them.
-- Robin Sharma -
Meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.
-- Robinson Jeffers -
You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.
-- Robinson Jeffers -
I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.
-- Rufus Wainwright -
How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.
-- Rumi -
Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
-- Rumi -
Why set your heart on a piece ofearth,seek out the source which shines forever.
-- Rumi -
If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.
-- Rumi -
Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.
-- Rumi -
When feeling is divested of the feeler and the felt, it shines as love; when seeing is divested of the seer and the seen, it shines as beauty.
-- Rupert Spira -
The U.S. Coast Guard is a shining example of how well a Federal agency can perform with its flexibility, speed, and expertise.
-- Russ Carnahan -
Decide that no matter what is happening around you, the sun will always be shining in your world.
-- Russell Simmons -
The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
-- Sallust -
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
-- Salvatore Quasimodo -
Thank you, but diamonds break easier than gold and people shine more through brokenness
-- Samantha Boscarino -
Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.
-- Sammy Davis, Jr. -
But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
-- Samuel Beckett -
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
-- Samuel Beckett -
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
-- Samuel Richardson -
I can't imagine any greater fear Than waking up without you here And though the sun would still shine on My whole world would all be gone
-- Sara Evans -
Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.
-- Sara Genn -
'Don't be the moth. Be the light bulb.' When I say that I mean don't follow the crowd. Just shine. Be the light bulb. Do your thing. Pave your own path.
-- Sara Paxton -
With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.
-- Sara Teasdale -
Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.
-- Sarah Palin -
The body will shine if the character is fine; service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm.
-- Sathya Sai Baba -
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 -
Ultimately not one amongst us Will ever be denied that, The glimmer of a chance to shine.
-- Scott Hastie -
You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly as you choose.
-- Sean Faircloth -
I will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave
-- Shahid Afridi -
In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.
-- Shakti Gawain -
When I walk, I walk with God. He's always with me, He never leaves me and He will shine the light on me.
-- Shamcey Supsup -
You gotta have faith. Even at the bottom of the blackest hole, there will always be light shining through. It just takes faith to see it.
-- Shannon Leto -
You're born to shimmer, you're born to shine, you're born to radiate
-- Shawn Mullins -
We're born to shimmer, we're born to shine We're born to radiate We're born to live, we're born to love We're born to never hate.
-- Shawn Mullins -
For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?
-- Sir John Davies -
Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines.
-- Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet -
In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.
-- Socrates -
The more you choose to do things that uplift yourself and others the more your Spirit can shine, can heal you, can lead your life. What can you do today to uplift yourself? To uplift others?
-- Sonia Choquette -
Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.
-- Sonny Liston -
Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer;
-- Sophocles -
I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.
-- Stanislaw Lem -
What is it about a secret love that makes everything they do shine, everything they say sound like a sonnet and every expression they make perfect, when to everyone else you speak to they're quite ordinary. It's a cruel sort of thing.
-- Stefanie Schneider -
Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else
-- Stephen Fry -
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.
-- Stephen King
