The Shining Quotes

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.

An autumn garden has a sadness when the sun is not shining.

Through the practice of meditation, when the mind is quieted and the emotions are calmed, the Soul shines forth in all of its glory.

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer to our souls.

I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.

Cracked pots allow the treasure to shine forth.

Don't be afraid of your dark places. ... If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.

It is not possible for you to sink lower than the infinite light of Christ's Atonement shines.

I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.

A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.

God knows the mess we’re in when He calls us. His light shines greater through “cracked pots” than it does through those who have it all together.

You can’t shine if you don’t burn.

God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness.

The moon was so young, so strange, even as a young girl who is dreaming and is afraid to tell her dreams; and it was shining only for itself.

I know very well that the political classes have spread fear among the electorate: Without the euro, the sun will cease shining, the rivers will stop flowing, we will enter an ice age.

Let’s shine the light of consciousness on places where we can hope to find what we are seeking.

When Spring is old, and dewy windsBlow from the south, with odors sweet,I see my love, in shadowy groves,Speed down dark aisles on shining feet.

I don't know why certain people shine for others. I don know why you and not someone else

So you treat your love like a firefly, like it only gets to shine for a little while. Catch it in a mason jar, with holes in the top, and run like hell to show it off.

The sun will shine again. No matter... how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.

He's become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines.

Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower.

Mary's role is to make Her Son Shine

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace.

A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.

With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.

For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?

Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines.

The more you choose to do things that uplift yourself and others the more your Spirit can shine, can heal you, can lead your life. What can you do today to uplift yourself? To uplift others?

He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example.

The thing you are ripening toward is the fruit of your life. It will make you bright inside, no matter what you are outside. It is a shining thing.

Just because no one has been fortunate enough to realize how wonderful you are, doesnt mean you shine any less.

All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge is shining in Its own lustre.

I'm going to wait til the midnight hour, that's when my love begins to shine.

These are great days.

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

And one rose in a tent of sea and gave A darkening shudder; water fell away; The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray.

If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on a pedestal and shine a spotlight on the crack!

I actually love modeling clothing and showing women that clothing and style can help your confidence shine.

Oh let Jah love come shining in into our lives again.

In difficult times, in dark times, some people shine.

What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit.

The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)

In America, we do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone but rather to let it shine as an example. We will shine for everyone to follow.

Seeming devotion does but gild a knave, That's neither faithful, honest, just, nor brave; But where religion does with virtue join, It makes a hero like an angel shine.

The stars shine as they always do. Same stars. Same sky. Only I am different.

I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry. I cried because you wouldn't let me speak. I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine. I shone because I thought you loved me.

Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like The Exorcist, The Shining, even though they scare the living daylights out of me.