Shining Quotes - Page 29

• Everything that shines ain't always gonna be gold

  Kid Cudi

  Rap, Gold

  FaceBook post by Kid Cudi from Sep 28, 2012

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• The sun also shines on the wicked.

  Seneca the Elder

  Shine On, Wicked, Sun

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• Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Life, Death, Fall

  Hilaire Belloc (1954). “The Verse of Hilaire Belloc”

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• Kindle the taper like the steadfast star
  Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth,
  And add each night a lustre till afar
  An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.

  Emma Lazarus

  Stars, Night, Add

  Emma Lazarus, John Hollander (2005). “Selected Poems”, p.87, Library of America

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• As for me, I know nothing else but miracles,
  Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
  Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
  Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
  Or stand under the trees in the woods,
  Or talk by day with any one I love,
  Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love,
  Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon...
  Or the wonderfulness of the sundown,
  Or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
  Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring...
  What stranger miracles are there?

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Beach, Stars

  Walt Whitman, “Miracles”

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• The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Eye, Humble

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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• [On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the heights of air. It can assume forms of exquisite perfection in a snowflake, or strip the living to a single shining bone cast up by the sea.

  Loren Eiseley

  Moving, Future, Science

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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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• You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.

  Byron Katie

  Lying, Light, Inquiry

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• Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man is the image of God.

  Johannes Kepler

  God, Math, Science

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• The One remains, the many change and pass;
  Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;
  Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
  Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
  Until Death tramples it to fragments.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Change, Science

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 52

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• Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

  Agatha Christie

  Knives, Confusing, Naked

  Agatha Christie (2004). “Poirot in the Orient”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• The sun is always shining someplace.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sun

  "Muhammad Ali: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Genius, Depth

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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• I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work

  Wyclef Jean

  Nice, Inspiration, People

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• Look what we are trying. You call it dharma, but it is not. What we are trying is to come together; come together to an understanding. The difference is, the discipline is, the commitment is that we are going to come together with the following guiding lines: 'May the long time sun shine upon you, all love surround you, and the pure light within you guide your way on.' When we came together we decided we would guide our way on. My way and your way we already know, so we do not need to learn that. Each one of you knows 'my' way and 'your' way. All we have to learn is 'our' way."

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Commitment, Light, Differences

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• Every time somebody ever told you that you weren't gonna amount to anything, you know, that's your time to shine, you know? You can show everybody and prove to yourself what you're doing is real and that it counts and that it makes a difference.

  Frank Iero

  Real, Differences, Making A Difference

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• Thou art the Sun of other days.
  They shine by giving back the rays.

  John Keble

  Easter, Art, Giving

  John Keble (1829). “The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble].”, p.130

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• I do believe that a poem needs to remind the reader of his or her own humanity, of what they are, of what they're capable of. Awaken them, in a sense, to the fact that there's a world in front of their eyes, that they have a body, they're going to die, the sky is beautiful, it's fun to be in a grassy field when the sun is shining—those kinds of things.

  Charles Simic

  Beautiful, Fun, Believe

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• David Whitmer wrote: ' Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat, and put his face in the hat, drawing it closely around his face to exclude the light; and in the darkness the spiritual light would shine.'

  Russell M. Nelson

  Spiritual, Light, Drawing

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• 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

  Moon, Land, World

  Pierre Loti (2005). “Egypt”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!

  Abu Yahya al-Libi

  Grandparent, Looks, Brows

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• You should never feel lonely, neglected, fearful, or defeated when you remember that there are the shining ones. They are watching with keen interest and a great desire to help to raise you, to stimulate you into contact with your own superior inner resources.

  Flower A. Newhouse

  Inspiring, Lonely, Angel

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• People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being were good, their works would shine forth brightly. Do not imagine that you can ground your salvation upon actions; it must rest on what you are.

  Meister Eckhart

  Faith, Thinking, People

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• Between the dusk of a summer night
  And the dawn of a summer day,
  We caught at a mood as it passed in flight,
  And we bade it stoop and stay.
  And what with the dawn of night began
  With the dusk of day was done;
  For that is the way of woman and man,
  When a hazard has made them one.
  Arc upon arc, from shade to shine,
  The World went thundering free;
  And what was his errand but hers and mine -
  The lords of him, I and she?
  O, it's die we must, but it's live we can,
  And the marvel of earth and sun
  Is all for the joy of woman and man
  And the longing that makes them one.

  William Ernest Henley

  Summer, Night, Men

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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