Quotation Explorer - 'Shining'

The innocence of children is what makes them stand out as a shining example to the rest of Mankind. - Kurt Chambers
The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and afternoon do not, poor things. - Elizabeth Goudge
Love is like a shining light in the darkness, closing eyes to pretend you didn't see it will not wash it away. - Jean Nshimiyimana
She dried her tears, and they did smileTo see her cheeks’ returning glow;Nor did discern how all the whileThat full heart throbbed to overflow.With that sweet look and lively tone,And bright eye shining all the day,They could not guess, at midnight loneHow she would weep the time away. - Emily Brontë
Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Only when we are thrust into the deepest and most terrible corner of life, do we see our real friends emerge from the shadows , one by one- shining the light of comfort and hope. Those are the ONLY friends that matter. - Ansul Noor
THOUGH you are in your shining days,Voices among the crowdAnd new friends busy with your praise,Be not unkind or proud,But think about old friends the most:Time's bitter flood will rise,Your beauty perish and be lostFor all eyes but these eyes. - W.B. Yeats
As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and mysteries of which the world is full, and he who can draw it away from before his eyes, as one draws away a hand, beholds the great shining of the inner worlds. - Rabbi Nachman de Bratslav
Be like the sun; bear with those in the dark, but keep shining your light. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A shining star will never lose it's luster, because Christ causes it to shine! - Anita R. Sneed-Carter
It's not about what we go through in life, but how we come out shining on the other side that makes us who we are. - Samuel B Watson
I have daughters and I have sons.When one of them lays a handOn my shoulder, shining fishTurn suddenly in the deep sea. - Robert Bly
Earthly Angels do not allow other souls to dim their light; they just keep shining bright as the sun, for this helps other souls to reconnect with their own light and shine brightly too! - Molly Friedenfeld
You can't worry about how people view you or what they say about you just keep shining. - Alcurtis Turner
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second-rate technology, who led them into it in the first place. - Douglas Adams
If the bombs go off the sun will still be shining, because I've heard it said thatevery mushroom cloud has a silver lining. - Adam Young Owl City Cave In
Stars are not praised for shining during the day, but at night. - Matshona Dhliwayo
What are we doing to keep the light shining in our own eyes and countenances; Much of that light comes from our discipline dedication and consecration. - James E. Faust
The rain out again, hammering the puddles full of holes, pocking the black-and-silver world with shining darkness. Rain soaks each leaf and blade of grass, bloating the lawns until they seem to roll and swell. Houses recede. The wind rises. The eyes and ears of God come down for the walk". - Mary Gatskill
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. - John F. Kennedy
The way you’re talking… Tears were shining in Kian’s eyes. It sounds like you don’t think you’re coming back. Kian to Bree, Spring Frost (Frost Series #7) - Kailin Gow
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. - Mark Twain
The sun is shining - the sun is shining. That is the Magic. The flower are growing - the roots are stirring. That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic - being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me - the Magic is in me. It is in me - it is in me. In every one of us. - Frances Hodgson Burnett
With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. - Charles Dickens
You see what you choose to see, because all perception is a choice.And when you cease to impose your meanings on what you see,your spiritual eyes will open, and you will see a world free of judgmentand shining in its endless beauty. - Paul Ferrini
You are a success and nothing will stop your shining! - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
QUIETUDELet this silence becomea celebration, my rainbow shining that couragecelestial diamonds scatter in darknessmy starlight reaching, engulfing bringing sacred laughterto the innermost. Grace.The whole pointof my refrain. - Tara Estacaan
I don't wanna be a Twinkling Star or a Radiant Moon or a Shining Sun. Just to be a Spectacular Sky in their backdrop. - Sajil Chembil
Love is like is like the setting sunafter shining brightly, it dips steadilytill it disappears...only to resurface another day. - Manoj Vaz
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. - Lord Chesterfield
He was a burning and a shining light. - Bible
There is always a beautiful light around the compassionate people: The shining light of goodness! - Mehmet Murat ildan
It is a wonderful morning with the sun shining bright and flowers smiling. There is a sweet breeze kissing my face while a hot cup of coffee warms my heart and awakens my mind. The primordial songs of ocean waves are soothing my soul. I am not on earth; I am in heaven on earth. - Debasish Mridha
Flying, with your love, shining, with your love, riding, with your love.I feel like I'm on top of the world with your love. - Cher Lloyd
No matter how dark it may feel, always remember, that somewhere beyond the darkest clouds the Sun is always shining. - Kiran Shaikh
But miracles do happen, every shining now and then. If not now, if not now, tell me when. From "If Not Now - Carrie Newcomer
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth. - Madam Guizot
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. - John Muir
The sky is so blue,I wish your day is bubble with happiness and sun shining in everything you do. - Uche Daniel Oluwaseun
Your heavenly eyes are shining like a late night starTo be in heaven, I like to get lost in those eyes forever. - Debasish Mridha
Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves a shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,and slips into the bosom of the lake:So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip into my bosom and be lost in me. - Alfred Tennyson
It's early on a beautiful winter morning. The house is quiet. The sun is shining. I'm thankful. I'm happy. My cup runneth over. Now there's coffee everywhere. - Mindy Levy
Dont give up because you are not getting much.Keep shining ur light no matter how small.God makes all things(small/big)beautiful in his time - Peter Isekiigbe DE Rock
I have a definition of success. For me, it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how many shining eyes I have around me. - Benjamin Zander
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. - Cicero
You are the Poem I dreamed of writing, the Masterpiece I longed to paint. You are the shining Star I reached for in my ever hopeful quest for life fulfilled. Yes, I am Blessed. - Oksana Rus
Even in the midst of the storm the sun is still shining. - Dayna Lovely
Don't let anyone fool you. The stars are always shining. And you don't just see them in the dark. The sun is a star, and it provides light for all of us. - Halle Teart
Many surround themselves with luminaries, but in so doing they dull their own sparkle. If you want to shine bright, look to the heavens and see how the brightest star always stands apart from those lesser shining stars. - Stephen Richards
Listen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art. - Amy Leigh Mercree
Do not quit too soon. The future is bright like a shining diamond. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Knowledge is the beauty of a diamond, but wisdom is the shining reflection of that beauty. - Debasish Mridha
To die,so young to die.No, no, not I,I love the warm sunny skies,light, song, shining eyes,I want no war, no battle cry,No, no, not I. - Hannah Senesh
A moon shining a broken road oversea; a lone woman naked to her waist waits at the edge of moonlight; a shadow person watching for meaning somewhere. - Keri Hulme
These is nothing divine about deprecating your gifts and talents or diminishing their worth in any way. Shining is sharing an abundance with us all. - Tama Kieves
We all came from the same source and it's energy in form of light shining in every consciousness. - Dave Zebian
We are all shining stars part of this UNIVERSE, which orbits the one SUN, but in different directions. - Abed Rahmani
Stars are shining, my dreams too - لطيفة الحاج
The future is bright like a shining diamond. - Lailah Gifty Akita
We should learn from flowers, earthly stars which spend their entire lives shining, shining and growing despite all the difficulties they encounter. They know how to listen and understand the whispers of time, for it is an eternal friend that teaches the importance of friendship and sparkling hope. - Nur Bedeir
It' like he has the ability to take on some of my pain. I feel so much better around him. Stronger. And he is willing to take my pain. He wants to bear it with me. I can see it shining in his eyes. I'm more than a duty to him. I'm more than his literal dream girl. I'm so much more. - Cynthia Hand
You're like a gem shining ever brightly in an ever dimming world. - Zechariah Barrett
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. - Betty Friedan
There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shining stars in the school will teach you how small you are and how comical to own an ego! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Mamoru, each & every one of us have stars in our hearts, & you know that the star is shining when you feel that heat…-Usagi/Sailor Moon - Naoko Takeuchi
Through the heartfelt mercies of our God, God's Sunrise will break in upon us, Shining on those in the darkness, those sitting in the shadow of death, Then showing us the way, one foot at a time, down the path of peace. - Anonymous
I believe in the sun even when it’s not shining. I believe in love even when not feeling it. I believe in God even when he is silent... - Anonymous inscription left in the wall of a German internment camp
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly; A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud; A brittle glass that's broken presently: A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, Lost, vaded, broken, dead within the hour. - William Shakespeare
There is no membership required for shining the light. - Raphael Zernoff
The financial markets are not to be trusted. They expect to be given free reign to make huge profits while the sun is shining, but hasten to the shelter of the state when the skies darken. - Peter Stalker
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. - Anton Chekhov
The future is bright like a shining star. - Lailah Gifty Akita
As a nation, we will only become the shining light to the world with the emergence of more and more role models worthy of emulation by all - Fela Durotoye
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me. - Bob Marley
It’s when you acquire the knowledge to listen to your inner voice and patiently chase your goals, that all that you were afraid of can be seen in different shining colors. - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K
To every woman waiting for her knight in shining armor, don't lose hope. He will come. In the mean time, don the armor, shine bright and be your own knight. - Eve Montelibano
You found me under the thousand stars, shining above us at the night. You found me and you wanted me to shine for you. - Tamara Stamenkovic
Somebody waits for the time I know will never comeYou get yourself so highThen you come down feeling blueOne day you’ll wake up and realize you’ve had enoughThere’s a thousand shining momentsWaiting just to happen to you - Blue Rodeo
Affliction is a good man's shining time. - Edward Young
What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose. - Willa Cather
You are your shining star. Arise and shine your star. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A beacon of light shining in a dark tunnel leads even the blind to safety - Wogu Donald
When you are discouraged, do not look down. Hold your head up high and you will see the face of God shining a light into your dark place. - Janet Autherine
Be like stars; when darkness tries to stop you from shining, shine all the more. - Matshona Dhliwayo
You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place. - Bruce Sterling
The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes. - George Bernard Shaw
I am not your average girl. That isn't me. I want you to notice when I'm not around. I want you to remember the little things. I want you to see me for who I am. I don't want to be like everybody else. I follow my heart and never look back. I'll go on shining no matter what... Always shine. - Anonymous
If the shining sun blinds the eye,it makes sense. But to be blinded by gold and silver! - I.R. Shankar
The thing about memories wasn't that many of them inevitably faded, but that repeated recall of the ones you remembered burnished them into shining, gorgeous lies. - Dexter Palmer
Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back. - Charles de Lint
I'm different. I will give you my treasure chest of darkness first. If you can handle that, then I'll bring out my shining moons. If one cannot handle the darkness, then one should not deserve the light. I have no interest in "trapping" anyone into a silken web. I have no silken web. - C. JoyBell C.
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond. - Solange nicole
Always try to live in a wonderful world where the sun is always shining, flowers are always blooming, birds are always singing, and you are always busy with a joyful life. - Debasish Mridha
You can’t avoid the inevitability of death. It comes at you one way or another, and takes us all to the same place in the end. To apologize for it is to apologize for the sun shining or the rain falling. It is what it is. - Catherine Doyle
A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill. - Ronald Reagan
Men, we don't need you in shining armor.We just need you a little bit brave, just a little bit brave. - Virginia Madsen
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