Quotes About Radiance

The cloudy sun poured light through all the sky.

Preachers err, he told me, by trying "to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare.

Sunlight streamed in through double-height windows and cast squares of rich gold on the carpet.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

somehow or other, there is a genial sunshine about you that warms every creeping thing into heart and confidence. Your

As I got closer to it, it got brighter and brighter. It wasn't like any light I could describe to you. It was beautiful.

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

Movie stars, concert stars, opera stars, fallen stars sparkled on and off.

Like the sky opens after a rainy day we must open to ourselves.... Learn to love yourself for who you are and open so the world can see you shine.

Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source from which may be drawn a life more successful, more knowing than our own. Somehow they will do one thing, take one step further, they will see the summit. We believe in it, the radiance that streams from the future, from days we will not see. Children must live, must triumph. Children must die; that is an idea we cannot accept.

There are two kinds of light — the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

Shock and aura. Things are stronger and brighter and I feel on the edge of something inexpressible. Coded messages in the in-flight magazines. Energy Shield. Uncompromising Care. Electricity, colors, radiance. Everything is a signpost pointing to something else.

You know, sometimes there's a light at the table, like a visible halo, and you're it, you know? You're the light?

And here he was, the great one himself, scorching us all with his rays of glory.

I've never met anyone who made me feel loved the way she did. Everything came alive in her company; she cast a charmed theatrical light about her so that to see anything through her eyes was to see it in brighter colors than ordinary—

What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can't be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance

a rainbow edge where beauty comes into being

What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?

It is hard, that? He has no fervour, no intuition, and yet he smells something wrong, something too perfect, something that makes one ask, "If this man is all he seems, why have all the prizes of the world not fallen at his feet? [...] Is it because there is something a fraction inhuman about these perfectly controlled responses, this unearthly radiance?

the two suns! It was like mountains of fire boiling into space.

When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are