450 Quotes About Shining

  • Author Sue Monk Kidd
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    I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

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  • Author Suzy Kassem
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    Illumination is nothing if you do not share it with anyone. Illumination is about spreading light across entire nations. It's about wearing that crown that shines like the sun on your head and getting other minds to synergize with yours.

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  • Author Anne Lamott
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    He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.

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  • Author Ben Lee
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    Imitate the sun. Don't worry if people understand you. Just shine shine shine.

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  • Author C. S. Lewis
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    It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

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  • Author C. S. Lewis
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    Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM.

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  • Author Claude Lévi-Strauss
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    The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from the persons and interests of their masters, and shine with their reflected glory.

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  • Author D. H. Lawrence
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    What sex is, we don't know, but it must be some sort of fire. For it always communicates a sense of warmth, of glow. And when this glow becomes a pure shine, then we feel the sense of beauty. We all have the fire of sex slumbering or burning inside us. If we live to be ninety, it is still there. Or, if it dies, we become one of those ghastly living corpses which are unfortunately becoming more numerous in the world.

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  • Author Denise Levertov
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    Through the hollow globe, a ring of frayed rusty scrapiron, is it the sea that shines? Is it a road at the world's edge?

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