Shining Through Quotes

• Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

  John Jakes

  Positive, Being Yourself, Believe

  FaceBook post by John Jakes from Sep 19, 2014

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• Those true eyes, Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise, The sweet soul shining through them.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Sweet, Eye, Love At First Sight

  "Lucile". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1860.

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  There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

  Edith Wharton

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

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• Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.

  Thomas Merton

  Nice, Simple, Meditation

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• The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Pain, Attitude

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• It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

  Maxfield Parrish

  Beautiful, Light, Color

  Letter to F.W Weber in 1950. "Maxfield Parrish". Book by Coy L. Ludwig, 1973.

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• The way of peace is a soul journey. . . . If you can live from the level of your soul, you are doing something very special. The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself, like a lamp shining through the window of eternity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Journey, Shining

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• 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

  Real, Self, Shining

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• An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.

  Robert Henri

  Artist, Shining, Technique

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

  Nat King Cole

  Philosophy, Maybe Tomorrow, Shining

  Song: Smile

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• I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Interrogation Techniques, Support, Shining

  "Tim Pawlenty Reacts to First 2012 Republican Presidential Debate". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. May 05, 2011.

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• Lovin' you has made my life so beautiful
  And every day of my life is filled with lovin' you
  Lovin' you I see your soul come shining through
  And every time that we ooooh I'm more in love with you

  Minnie Riperton

  Beautiful, Song, Love You

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• The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

  Jane Porter

  Perfection, Shining, Soul

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.84

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• And I'll see your true colors shining through I see your true colors and that's why I love you so don't be afraid to let them show your true colors, true colors are beautiful like a RAINBOW.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Beautiful, Love You, Color

  Song: True Colors, Album: True Colors, 1986

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• 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

  Light, Shining, Have Faith

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• All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies. Again, shining through the mind of a poet, it is seen in fine poetry and poetic prose. When the Light of the Sun of Truth inspires the mind of a painter, he produces marvellous pictures. These gifts are fulfilling their highest purpose, when showing forth the praise of God.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Beautiful, Art, Light

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• The common meaning of gratitude is to be thankful for benefits received. While this is important, I feel that the energy of gratitude is one of the most powerful attracting forces in the universe. A heart filled with Thanksgiving, even when appearances tell us that we are mired in scarcity, conflict, and affliction, moves us to a higher frequency in consciousness and we soon witness reality shining through the illusion.

  John Randolph Price

  Gratitude, Powerful, Moving

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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

  Light, Appreciate, Shining

  Pattiann Rogers (1994). “Firekeeper: new & selected poems”

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• Smile, though your heart is aching
  Smile, even though it's breaking
  When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by
  If you smile through your pain and sorrow
  Smile and maybe tomorrow,
  You'll see the sun come shining through for you.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Pain, Heart, Optimistic

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• Although we were not able to shatter that highest and hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it has 18 million cracks in it, and the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time, and we are going to keep working to make it so, today keep with me and stand for me, we still have so much to do together, we made history, and lets make some more.

  Hillary Clinton

  Glasses, Light, Shining

  "Is it sexist to talk about Hillary Clinton's age?" by David Frum, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2014.

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• 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, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a doliphin friend. He would have merry eyes and thick flesh of a god. My fingernails would be tiny shells and my skin would be like jade with light shining through it I would never have to come back up

  Francesca Lia Block

  Eye, Light, Blue

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• 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

  Stars, People, Shining

  Jodi Picoult (2001). “Salem Falls”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision.

  Henry Miller

  Eye, Swimming, Shining

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Space, Shining, Daylight

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.21, Penguin

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• Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.

  Colum McCann

  Dark, Shining, Lessons

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