You're like a gem shining ever brightly in an ever dimming world. - Zechariah Barrett
Writing is like making jewelry -jeweler doesn't make a diamond, he polishes and cuts it, but the gem is from God. - Bela Abel
There is no gem like virtue, no wealth like happiness, no treasure like faith, and no jewel like love. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Is, then, the crown too heavy that I wear? … Yet it is bright with many a gem; I, the wearer, see not its far flashings; but darkly feel that I wear that, that dazzling confounds. ’Tis Iron – that I know – not gold. - Herman Melville
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials. - Chinese Proverb
The mine is always bigger than the gem. - Idries Shah
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. - George MacDonald
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. - Freya Stark
Power is the gem of necessity. Without observing power, identity remains undiscovered. - Lionel Suggs
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. - Chinese Proverb
The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials. - Chinese Proverb
I celebrate myself, I paint and dance and sing myself, and what I assume you will assume, for every atom as of me as good belongs to dreamy You. I am a song. I am a poem. I am the soil and a gem. I am a stargate and a voyage. I am the ocean and your soul. - Oksana Rus
Find that gem amongst your so-called, "friends. - Vannary Rang