C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM."
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Shining
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Jean Baudrillard
Philosopher, Sociologist
"Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile."
Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet, Educator
"Behind the clouds is the sun still shining."
Mooji
Spiritual Teacher
"There is a mystery within all beings bursting to reveal itself, in the ones who become quiet enough to discover it. In this discovery a benevolent force shines spontaneously from your presence towards all beings, and this light cannot help but illuminate the world."
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"I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town"
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"When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine, that's amore."
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"Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful."
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"The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens."
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"In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine."
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"Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been."
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"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."
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"Working all winter shining all summer"
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"Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine."
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"Cute is when your personality shines through your looks."
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"Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light."
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"White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."
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"The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them."
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"The best is yet to come, and won't that be fine? You think you've seen the sun, but you ain't seen it shine."
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"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere."
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"From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all."
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"If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you."
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"Yes, Harry Potter!” said Dobby at once, his great eyes shining with excitement. “And if Dobby does it wrong, Dobby will throw himself off the topmost tower, Harry Potter!” “There won’t be any need for that,” said Harry hastily."
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"In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused."
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"The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night."
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