"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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"Love that shines from within cannot be darkened by obstacles of the world of consequences!"
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"SNSD is a group of 9 girl female students. We’re pretty one by one as well,but its when we’re all together that we can really shine."
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"Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe."
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"Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind."
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"It's no secret that I am not afraid to shine bright and be festive, and I like to encourage that in others."
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"When I meet someone, I look at their eyes and their smile and seek out the good first - it's easy to find when you're looking for it. You let a person shine with their own light and try to connect it to yours. As soon as I say hello, I go right to that light and I don't care who you are! I know we're all pieces of the same thing - I go for that common light because I know it's in all of us."
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"Celebrate your existence!"
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"Viva la the New Brigade! Viva la the Old One, too! Viva la, the Rose shall fade, And the Shamrock shine for ever new!"
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"You can still die when the sun is shining."
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"Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining, Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day, Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining, Buds that open only to decay."
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"Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!"
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"Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in."
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"Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well."
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"Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly."
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"Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever."
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