Shining Quotes - Page 37

• You are as the yellow leaf. The messengers of death are at hand. You are to travel far away. What will you take with you? You are the lamp To lighten the way. Then hurry, hurry. When your light shines.

  Gautama Buddha

  Light, Hands, Yellow

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• Boys don't mature. They just age. But aged boys know how to flow with a different destination, and to shine with different color.

  Kim Do-Jin

  Drama, Boys, Color

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• When Reason Breaks is infused with a rare blend of suspense and sensitivity, despair and hope. The poetic spirit of Emily Dickinson shines through the gloom of daily struggles faced by modern teens, as they discover the possibilities where they dwell.

  Margarita Engle

  Struggle, Despair, Suspense

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• Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed, the way that a striated stone tumbled in a river feels irreducible, the way that this netsuke of a fox has become little more than a memory of a nose and a tail. But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing, and the way the leaves of my medlar shine.

  Edmund de Waal

  Memories, Two, Rivers

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• What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority.

  Mu Xin

  Art, Finals, Analysis

  Interview with Toming Jun Liu, www.wordswithoutborders.org. July 1993.

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• I have commanded that my [titulary] abide like the mountains; when the sun shines its rays are bright upon the titulary of my majesty; my Horus is high upon the standard ... forever.

  Hatshepsut

  Sunshine, Egypt, Forever

  Inscriptions at Djeser-Djeseru, as quoted in "Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest" by James Henry Breasted, 1906.

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• Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Stones, Jade

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• I never asked to be born, and death's no question.
  The sun's still shining off the same old lessons,
  Then why does life feel like an educated guess?
  And my thoughts are like meals...I'm a sucker for the seconds.

  Amir Mohamed

  Rap, Hip Hop, Doe

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• I call my brother 'Sun' cause he shine like one.

  Method Man

  Brother, Rap, Hip Hop

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• Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget,
  Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it.

  Jeru the Damaja

  Real, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Come Clean, Album: The Sun Rises in the East

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• Breathe in...inhale vapors from bright stars that shine,
  Breathe out...weed smoke retrace the skyline.

  Mos Def

  Weed, Stars, Rap

  Song: Respiration

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• City lights shine bright on my complexion,
  Self-reflection...red hairs flashing at the intersection.
  Life is a green light, one star, no script,
  Supporting actors...fresh peaches, no pit.

  Action Bronson

  Stars, Rap, Reflection

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• ...But until then, I'ma shine to the last sin,
  Resurrect through the birth of my son, and live again.

  Intelligent Hoodlum

  Rap, Son, Hip Hop

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• Search for love, for it is the most important ingredient of life. Without it, you life will echo emptiness. With it, your life will vibrate with warmth and meaning. Even during any hardship, love will shine through.

  Nikita Koloff

  Echoes, Important, Hardship

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• The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Country, Reality, Cities

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• 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

  Music, House, Singing

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• You choose to shine with the light of your own divinity, or you hide it with the shadows you create in your mind. You must choose where to live -in the light or the shadows. The most powerful tool you have is your power of choice.

  Nirmalananda

  Powerful, Light, Choices

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• There is a line from Dante that says, "The arrow seen before cometh less rudely." President John F. Kennedy put one aspect of the same thought into one of his state of the union messages this way: "The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." The Boy Scouts say it best of all: "Be prepared." That isn't just cracker-barrel wisdom with us; it is theology. "If ye are prepared ye shall not fear." (D&C 38:30)

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Time, Fear, Boys

  Jeffrey R. Holland (1985). “However Long and Hard the Road”, Deseret Book Co

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• I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea.

  Robert Bly

  Daughter, Son, Hands

  "I have daughters and I have sons". Poem by Robert Bly, www.newyorker.com. April 19, 2010.

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• Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see its light shining on you.

  Antoni Zygmund

  Faith, Science, Light

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• This is a way you can learn about someone through very stressful situations. That is when a person is either gonna shine or falter.

  Joe Teti

  Stressful Situations, Survival, Way

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• No matter how fair the sun shines,
  Still it must set.

  Ferdinand Raimund

  Matter, Sun, Stills

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• 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

  Life, Long, Mountain

  Robinson Jeffers (1965). “Selected poems”, Vintage

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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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