Shine On quotes

Shine On

64 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery Writer, Aviator

"If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow"

Teresa Palmer
Teresa Palmer Actress

"Life is way too short to be focused on scales, weight and cellulite. If you can look in the mirror and know that you're a beautiful, loving, friendly person who's good to people, that'll ultimately make you shine on the outside."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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"If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses dont go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
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"The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually."

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Pablo Neruda Poet, Diplomat
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"Is 4 the same 4 for everybody? Are all sevens equal? When the convict ponders the light is it the same light that shines on you?"

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Martin Luther Theologian
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"The great unthankfulness, contempt of God's word, and wilfulness of the world, make me fear that the divine light will soon cease to shine on man, for God's word has ever had its certain course."

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Elan Lee Game Designer
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"Every TV show I've ever made, every game I've ever built, and every book I've ever published has had the common thread of building the biggest, brightest spotlight imaginable and then flipping it around to shine on you."

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Elizabeth Moon Science Fiction Author
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"I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his light shine on us all."

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