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Quotes About Radiance

Sunshine surrounds the earth as love surrounds our souls.
~ Terri Guillemets
Candle light, moon light, star light, The brightest glow is from love light.
~ Terri Guillemets
Let the rays of your heart shine on all who pass by.
~ Terri Guillemets
That beautiful day passed just as the saddest ones do, since the most radiant of days has a tomorrow.
~ Thérèse de Lisieux
See how this evening the tree-tops are gilded by the setting sun. So likewise my soul appears to you all shining and golden because it is exposed to the rays of Love.
~ Thérèse de Lisieux
The most acceptable prayer is the one offered with the utmost spirituality and radiance; its prolongation hath not been and is not beloved by God. The more detached and the purer the prayer, the more acceptable is it in the presence of God.
~ The Bab
God desireth not to see, in the Dispensation of the Bayn, any soul deprived of joy and radiance. He indeed desireth that under all conditions, all may be adorned with such purity, both inwardly and outwardly, that no repugnance may be caused even to themselves, how much less unto others.
~ The Bab
Total purposelessness gives the lie to the totality of purposefulness in the world of domination, and only by virtue of this negation, which consummates the established order by drawing the conclusion from its own principle of reason, has existing society up to now become aware of another that is possible. The bliss of contemplation consists in disenchanted charm. Radiance is the appeasement of myth.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
She drifted, feather-like, in tenuous radiance… Her gown, it seemed a thing made out of mist, As though the dewy air Had gathered in a cloud about her form To clothe a shape so fair That nothing coarser could adorn it than A layer of atmosphere.
~ Theodora Goss
Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.
~ Thomas Becket
You're like a sharp bright piece broken from a star. Too sharp, too bright, sometimes, for your own good.
~ Nicola Griffith
Where there is a great deal of light, the shadows are deeper.
~ Nora Roberts
A soft light's got its own appeal.
~ Nora Roberts
Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us. —Sir Thomas Browne
~ Nora Roberts
There is inside it something sun.
~ Cole Swensen
The cabins radiated permanence and in turn summoned timeless feelings in those who lived and died in them: envy and spite.
~ Colson Whitehead
You have to look on the world with a shine like no one else has.
~ Colum McCann
A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one
~ Virginia Woolf
She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ...
~ Virginia Woolf
She blazed. She kindled. Out of the night she burnt like a white star.
~ Virginia Woolf
She burnt like a dead white star.
~ Virginia Woolf
Lei sapeva che cosa le mancava. Non era la bellezza, non era l'intelligenza. Era qualcosa dentro, che si irradia dal centro; un calore che spacca le superfici e increspa gli orli del freddo contatto tra un uomo e una donna, o tra due donne. Oscuramente lei lo sentiva.
~ Virginia Woolf
A cluster of stars palely glowed above us, between the silhouettes of long thin leaves; that vibrant sky seemed as naked as she was under her light frock. I saw her face in the sky, strangely distinct, as if it emitted a faint radiance of its own.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Start every day with a smile because smile makes life beautiful.
~ Larry Kassel