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“Life has been messy for me, as it has for most everyone. I have come to the realization that challenging experiences break us all at some point—our bodies and minds, our hearts and egos. When we put ourselves back together, we find that we are no longer perfectly straight, but rather bent and cracked. Yet it is through these cracks that our authenticity shines. It is by revealing these cracks that we can learn to see and be seen deeply.”

Mind Heart Has Beens Body Together Challenges Break Ego Shining Authenticity Realization Cracks Bent Revealing Mind And Body Messy Cracked Back Together

Author:Ping Fu

“You may wear your virtues as a crown, As you walk through life serenely, And grace your simple rustic gown With a beauty more than queenly. Though only one for you shall care, One only speak your praises; And you never wear in your shining hair, A richer flower than daisies.”

May Care Speak Simple Walks Virtue Grace Flower Hair Praise Shining Crowns Gowns Daisies Rustic

Book:The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

Source: The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

“Bilingualism opens doors and provides opportunity to our children so they can shine and become successful in a labor market that is increasingly competitive and globalized.”

Children Opportunity Successful Doors Labor Our Children Shining Becoming Successful Bilingualism

Author:Luis Fortuno

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

Light Shadow Shining Iraq Islamic Stable Extremism Shining Light

Author:Jim DeMint

“When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.”

Night Morning Sun Tomorrow Terrible Window Wake Up Shining Catastrophe Up To You Sun Shines Happy Day Choose To Be Happy Tomorrow Morning

Author:Lynda Resnick

“And each year now we know more, but we know no better — what we see in the sky is simply the softened gloss of the past sifting back to us, and likewise, every atom down the body’s shining length was inside a star, and will be again.”

Knows Years Body Past Stars Sky Shining Length Atoms Gloss Sifting

Book:Dark Matter: Poems

Source: Dark Matter: Poems

“I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.”

Thinking Years School Pain High School Dating Shining Girlfriend Good Times Teenage Having A Good Time Teenage Years

Author:Spalding Gray

“I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.”

Years School Sun Generations One Thing Lessons Shining Hospitals Roof Eighteen Crumbling

Author:Ed Miliband

“I manage because I have to. Because I've no other way out. Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different, I've understood that they are a pitiful defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes. The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine, and jumping at it with a hoe isn't going to do anything.”

Way Different Sun Pride Understood Overcoming Shining Defense Manage Vanity Jumping Things Change Being Different Pitiful Sun Shines Hoe Vanity And Pride

Author:Andrzej Sapkowski

“As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?”

People Ifs Knows Facts Running Realizing Rich Fit Murder Shining Shoes Do You Know Good Friend Tapestry

Author:Lemmy Kilmister

“Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.”

Night Stars Anxiety Difficulty Shining

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“But housekeeping is fun. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. You may work all day washing and ironing, but at night you have the delicious feeling of sunny clean sheets and airy pillows to lie on. If you clean, you sit down at nightfall with the house shining and faintly smelling of wax, all yours to enjoy right then and there. And if you cook—that creation you lift from the oven goes right to the table.”

Ifs May Feelings Jobs Lying Night House Fun Enjoy Results Creation Tables Shining Clean Cooks Lifts Sheets Delicious Pillow Sunny Washing Ovens Airy Housekeeping Nightfall

Author:Gladys Taber

“Statement of Being. There is one Mind, and I AM that Mind. That Mind is eternal, and it is Life. I am that Mind, and I am ETERNAL LIFE. That Mind knows no disease; I am that Mind, and I am HEALTH. That Mind is the source of all Power, and cannot know doubt nor fear; I am that M ind, and I am POW ER and PEACE. That M ind knows only Truth and knows ALL truth; I am that M ind, and I am KNOW LEDGE and WISDOM . All things created and uncreated, are in that Mind; I am that Mind, and I am WEALTH and PLENTY. I am the WAY, and the TRUTH, and the LIFE; the LIGHT in me shines out to bless the world.”

Knows World Way Mind Light Wealth Doubt Source Disease Eternal All Things Shining Statements Plenty Bless Eternal Life Being There Pow Ledges

Author:Wallace D. Wattles

“The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow -- Hope shining upon the tears of grief.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Discussions

“The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.”

Heart Light Eye Shining Sufi Wise Man Once Said

Author:Rumi

“If you knew yourself for even one moment, if you could just glimpse your most beautiful face, maybe you wouldn’t slumber so deeply in that house of clay. Why not move into your house of joy and shine into every crevice! For you are the secret Treasure-bearer, and always have been. Didn’t you know?”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Moments Beautiful Faces Moving Joy House Secret Shining Treasure Why Not Glimpse Clay Slumber Beautiful Face Crevice

Author:Rumi

“How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.”

Knows Light Past Shining Beloved

Author:Rumi

“But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.”

Thinking Want Writing Book Stories Literature Shining Transparency

Author:Anne Tyler

“All cell phones in the air 'cause I want to see you guys shine.”

Want Guy Causes Air Shining Phones Cells Cell Phone Want To See You

Author:Blake Lewis

“It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street - which Im also in favour of.”

Littles Would Be Powerful Democracy Streets Shining Corners Dirty Favour Torches

Author:Billy Bragg

“When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.”

Light Spirit Sky Shining Pleasant

Author:Abraham Isaac Kook

“Stop Looking for Permission to Be Yourself. The true individual is no more concerned over what others may think of him or her than is the sun troubled by people complaining that it's too warm, or that it shines too bright!”

People Thinking May Individual Sun Concerned Shining Warm Complaining Being Yourself Permission

Author:Guy Finley

“The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get much better than this.”

Sun Cold Travel Shining Corners Coffee Beer Excellent Quick Witted

Book:In a Sunburned Country

Source: In a Sunburned Country

“Silver is the best material we have. And silver has this wonderful shine like moonlight ... a light taken straight from a Danish summer's night. When covered by dew, silver can look like magical mist.”

Looks Light Night Taken Wonderful Materials Summer Shining Silver Covered Moonlight Mist Dew Danish

Author:Georg Jensen

“I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.”

Particular Shining Crowds Resolution Feathers Foe Caps

Book:The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell

Source: The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell

“The social Web is incredibly good at shining bright lights into dark corners.”

Light Social Dark Shining Marketing Corners Online Bright Lights Online Marketing

Author:Dave Evans

“That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.”

Lost Land Shining Nostalgia Highways Lad

Author:A. E. Housman

“Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy.”

Quality Compassion Roles Eating Models Empathy Shining Caring Vegan Role Models Humane Compassion And Empathy

Author:Michael Greger

“Early morning, the orange sun is slowly rising, shining forth in empty luminous clarity. The mind and the sky are one, the sun is rising in the vast space of primordial awareness, and there is just this. Yasutani Roshi once said, speaking of satori, that it was the most precious realization in the world, because all the great philosophers had tried to understand ultimate reality but had failed to do so, yet with satori or awakening all of your deepest questions are finally answered: it's just this.”

Source: One Taste

“If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow pulled from his own bow. It is the single universal trait which the great of this earth have all shared, while the shadows are fraught with ghosts who roam the winds with mournful wails of regret on their lips. Believe as if your life depended upon it, for indeed it does.”

Ifs Believe Doe Has Beens Earth Belief Stars Destiny Wind Regret Shadow Universal Shining Errors Lips Ghost Traits Bows Believe In You Our Destiny Arrows Your Destiny

Book:The Locket

Source: The Locket

“The saints are like the stars. In his providence Christ conceals them in a hidden place that they may not shine before others when they might wish to do so. Yet they are always ready to exchange the quiet of contemplation for the works of mercy as soon as they perceive in their heart the invitation of Christ.”

Heart May Might Wish Stars Christ Ready Quiet Mercy Shining Saint Perceive Contemplation Providence Invitations

Author:Anthony of Padua

“We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world.”

World Needs May Enough Light Given Democracy Military Gratitude Shining Troops Our Troops Military Service Shining Light

Author:Virgil Goode

“The ordinances do not impart eternal life to the believer, but they do confirm, strengthen, and heighten our awareness and enjoyment of that life. The bread and wine are means or instruments by which God quickens us to apprehend, understand, visualize, and experience the sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit and his unique ministry of shining the light of illumination and glory on Jesus.”

“In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.”

Light Past Sea Land Future Shining Flames Land And Sea

Book:The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941

Source: The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941

“Someone like you makes the sun shine brighter. Someone like you makes a sigh half a smile. Someone like you makes my troubles much lighter. Someone like you make life seem worthwhile.”

Seems Half Sun Trouble Like You Shining Worthwhile Sigh Brighter Lighters Friendship Love Sun Shines Someone You Like

Author:James Wright Foley

“Seeing the small is called Clarity. Keeping flexible is called Strength. Using the shining Radiance, You enter the Light, Where no harm can come to you. This is called Enlightenment.”

Light Seeing Strength Enlightenment Shining Harm Clarity Flexible Radiance

Author:Laozi

“Women love firefighters so much because it’s like a knight in shining armor kind of thing.”

Kind Shining Knights Armor Firefighter Knight In Shining Armor

Author:Taylor Kinney

“Whatever your circumstances, whatever your past, the forces that determine your future are nowhere but within your own heart and mind. It is here that the star of your destiny shines.”

Mind Heart Past Force Stars Destiny Circumstances Shining Determine Our Future Our Past Heart And Mind Our Destiny Your Future Your Past Your Destiny

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.”

Stills Felt Differences Saws Ready Wind Shining My Time Horizon Dreamer Sail Realist

Author:Chris Gardner

“Silently a flower blooms, In silence it falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The world of the flower, the whole of the world is blooming. This is the talk of the flower, the truth of the blossom; The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.”

World Life Whole Moments Truth Life Is Fall Silence Flower Eternal Glory Shining Eternal Life Blooming Blooming Flower Flowers And Gardens Flower Blossom

Book:A Flower Does Not Talk: Zen Essays

Source: A Flower Does Not Talk: Zen Essays

“The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend to such things. . . . When we are grasping the inexpressible meaning of these things, this is life, this is living. To do this twenty-four hours a day is the Way of Haiku. It is having life more abundantly.”

Way Life Night Fall Hours Sun Four Mountain Twenties Shining Snow Valleys Pale Haiku Grasping Sun Shines Snow Falling

Book:The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen

Source: The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen

“Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hopes of new pleasures, is it worth while to dress and undress? Does the sun shine on me today that I may reflect on yesterday? That I may endeavor to foresee and control what can neither be foreseen nor controlled - the destiny of tomorrow?”

Ifs Life May Doe Today Joy Pleasure Destiny Morning Sun Tomorrow Dresses Shining Yesterday Evening Controlled Endeavor Sun Shines Shine On Foreseen

Book:The Works of J. W. Von Goethe

Source: The Works of J. W. Von Goethe

“They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you dig down in the mines You never see Him in the gold, Though from Him all that's glory shines. God is so good, He wears a fold Of heaven and earth across His face - Like secrets kept, for love, untold. But still I feel that His embrace Slides down by thrills, through all things made, Through sight and sound of every place: As if my tender brother laid On my shut lids, her kisses' pressure, Half waking me at night; and said, "Who kissed through the dark, dear guesser?"”

Source: Poems of the Intellect and the Affections

“The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells The book of life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes After its own life-workings. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt serve thyself by every sense, Of service which thou renderest.”

“The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall drive away Is flowers and kings, Is Solomon's temple, poets, Nineveh.”

Lying Poet Flower Kings Shining Dust Temples Solomon Ledges

Author:Viola Meynell

“No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, . . . . . . No road, no street, no t' other side the way, . . . . . . No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no buds.”

Way Sides Sun Streets Flower Moon Shining Fruit Dawn Shade Butterfly Bees Bud Noon Dusk Time Of Day Proper Time November Poems

Author:Thomas Hood

“Everyone else would climb a peak by looking for a path somewhere in the mountain. Nash would climb another mountain altogether and from that distant peak would shine a searchlight back onto the first peak.”

Firsts Path Mountain Mathematics Shining Mathematical Climbs

Author:Donald J. Newman

“God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford to wait, Give ermined knaves their hour of crime; Yet have the future grand and great, The safe appeal of Truth to Time!”

Way Giving Wells Seems Truth Evil Waiting Hours Dark Crime Safe Late Shining Hills Appeals Delay Brooks Knaves

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Be black, shine, aim high.”

Black Aim Shining Black History Aim High

Author:Leontyne Price

“The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In the first case, consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case, so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light and consciousness necessarily gains in scope and insight. The encounter between conscious and unconscious has to ensure that the light that shines in the darkness is not only comprehended by the darkness, but comprehends it.”

Source: The Collected Works

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