Glowing Quotes

• Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Learning, Heart

  Homer (2008). “The Odyssey: Easyread Large Edition”, p.146, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

  Jack Kerouac

  I Hate You, Pages, Saws

  Jack Kerouac (1971). “The Dharma Bums”, p.138, Penguin

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• There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

  James Thurber

  Inspirational, Life, Light

  "Lanterns and Lances‎". Book by James Thurber, p. 146, 1961.

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• Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.

  Black Elk

  Thinking, Fog, Vision

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

  Frank McCourt

  Happiness, Happy, Recalls

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• The person who lives life fully, glowing with life’s energy, is the person who lives a successful life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Life, Successful, Energy

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• It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.

  Markus Zusak

  Light, Bigs, Small Things

  "The Messenger". Book by Markus Zusak, January 10, 2002.

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• I have the stardom glow.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Stardom

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• And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing through a faint skin of dust, would stand the dandelion wine. Peer through it at the wintry day - the snow melted to grass, the trees were reinhabitated with bird, leaf, and blossoms like a continent of butterflies breathing on the wind. And peering through, color sky from iron to blue. Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Morning, Children

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Dandelion Wine”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Ambition

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

  Bob Hope

  Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter

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• The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

  Hugh Walpole

  Relationship, Anniversary, Marriage

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 597, 2006.

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• Ive been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.

  Rosamund Pike

  Summer, Pride, Marine

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• How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Thankful, Shining, Phrases

  Grace Noll Crowell, “Thank You Friend”

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• Why?" asked her companion. "Why do you love him when you ought not to?" Edna, with a motion or two, dragged herself on her knees before Mademoiselle Reisz, who took the glowing face between her two hands. "Why? Because his hair is brown and grows away from his temples; because he opens and shuts his eyes, and his nose is a little out of drawing; because he has two lips and a square chin, and a little finger which he can't straighten from having played baseball too energetically in his youth. Because - " "Because you do, in short," laughed Mademoiselle.

  Kate Chopin

  Baseball, Eye, Squares

  Kate Chopin (2016). “THE AWAKENING - A Solitary Soul (Feminist Classics Series): One Women's Story from the Turn-Of-The-Century American South”, p.104, e-artnow

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• To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

  Lord Byron

  Dance, Aquarius, Feet

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.60, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.

  Ted Nugent

  Self, Halos, Pardon Me

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• You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Color, Arrogance, Pleasure

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.57, Cosimo Classics

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• It was many years ago that I got out of a crewtruck in the national forest and ran toward a large glowing object hovering in the darkening Arizona sky. But when I made that fateful choice to leavethe truck, I was leaving behind more than just my six fellow workmen. I was leaving behind forever all semblance of a normal life, running headlong toward an experience so overwhelmingly mind-rending in its effects, so devastating in itsaftermath, that my life would never—could never  — be the same again.

  Travis Walton

  Running, Years, Sky

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• The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

  Quentin Crisp

  Forgiveness, Hilarious, Thinking

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• The sun was bobbing on the horizon, just peeking over. Its light shimmered on the sand behind you, making your body look like it was glowing … like it had a kind of aura.

  Lucy Christopher

  Light, Peeking, Horizon

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.44, Scholastic Inc.

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• Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.

  Peter Brook

  Perfect, Simplicity, Enemy

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• We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast.

  Robert Crippen

  Dark, Ions, Earth

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• One man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
  And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Men, Bending Down

  'When You Are Old'

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• Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.

  Jim Woodring

  Time, Writing, Checks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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