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Quotes About Shining

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
~ Denis Waitley
Exhaustion had become a bright, shining star, and now, now, now, in the beating of her heart, it wasn't even exhaustion. It became something more exalted and debased and she felt as if she was floating over it, and all she wanted was to sleep for a million years, but she could not.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Yes Leopold, Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the shining.
~ Eloisa James
Alicia, her eyes shining.
~ Enid Blyton
May the great living and echoing unconsciousness which inspires my only conclusive acts in any sense I always believe in, dispose forever of all that is myself. I gladly renounce any possibility of taking back what here, again, I bestow upon it. Once more I want to recognize and rely on it alone and virtually at my leisure wander along its immense piers, staring at some shining dot I know is in my own eye and which saves me all collision with its night fright.
~ Andre Breton
KIPP schools would be just a shining example of schools where students aren't just given homework and taught imaginative ways, but they're really brought into a culture of education.
~ Charles Best
Through the window the sun was shining like a beacon, nearly blinding her just as her parents lies had.
~ Rita Herron
In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of faëry lands forlorn, where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
~ L.M. Montgomery
The stars twinkled through the fir-trees and right and left the harbour range-lights shone like great earth stars. Presently a moon rose and there was a sparkling trail over the harbour like a lady's silken dress.
~ L.M. Montgomery
It gets creepy in the Hamptons after Labor Day. Like, I'm talking The Shining creepy.
~ Laura Dave
But I understand now that your love will always come with conditions and that no matter how good your intentions, something holds you back, Anita. Something will not allow you to give yourself completely to the moment, to that shining thing called love. You hold yourself back, and you hold back those who love you. I cannot live being offered your love one moment and denied it the next. I cannot live being punished for what I cannot change.' 'It's
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
He's always been something like a star to me
~ Nojiko Hayakawa
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man is the image of God.
~ Johannes Kepler
There is a thumping silence, and the light of the one lamp across the wet tiled floor seems conscious that it will illuminate this and many other atrocities, just as it will go on shining through days and months of sudden speechless lusts, and all the intervening hours of silent emptiness.
~ Alan Hollinghurst
It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb.
~ Dinah Maria Mulock
Forgiving is rediscovering the shining path of peace that at first you thought others took away when they betrayed you.
~ Dodinsky
The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
~ Oswald Chambers
Life works in mysterious ways but when you find your inner glow is back and shining brighter, you know it's right.
~ Lily Collins
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
~ Willa Cather
If that blue could stay forever; If that hole could remain forever; If this moment could stay forever... I feel myself shining in the dark... I am arrayed. I am prepared. This is the momentary pause; the dark moment. The fiddlers have lifted their bows.. This is my calling. This is my world. All is decided and ready... I am rooted, but I flow... 'Come' I say, 'Come.
~ Jennifer Niven
The sun is shining, there's provisions, it's nesting season, the chooks are laying and we have peat for the fire; I genuinely don't see what you're worried about.
~ Jenny Colgan
Her eyes never stop shining. It makes me wish I was little again and everything could be solved with a Christmas Day puppy.
~ Jenny Han
She is resplendent.
~ Jenny Han
in the future, you might not want to wear so much makeup. You don't want to attract the wrong kind of attention." Maureen's shoulders tightened. "Why don't you tell them to stop looking instead of us to stop shining?
~ Jess Lourey