Shine Alone Quotes

#1. Seated alone by shadowy bamboos,

I strum my lyre and laugh aloud;

None know that I am here, deep in the woods;

Only the bright moon comes to shine on me.

Wang Wei

#2. He had touched her. Bare skin to bare skin. She needed a bleach wipe. She would absolutely use a bleach wipe on her leg. Even if it ate her flesh off.

Gwenn Wright

#3. The night it falls
The stars shine through
The inky black
That is the cue
For plot demands
That dreams be sown
The fantasies
I have alone
The words come fast
They flow like wine
I am the midnight writer...

Virginia Alison

#4. The year is dying in the night.

Alfred Tennyson

#5. August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade.

Jeanette Winterson

#6. Each of us represents a star in the sky; sometimes we shine with the rest, sometimes we twinkle alone, and sometimes ... when we least expect it ... we make someone's dreams come true..

Unknown

#7. The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being strong. The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are. It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves. It leaves the leaves alone.

Rumi

#8. If the Church would have her face shine, she must go up into the mount, and be alone with God. If she would have her courts of worship resound with eucharistic praises, she must open her eyes, and see humanity lying lame at the temple gates, and heal it in the miraculous name of Jesus.

Frederic Dan Huntington

#9. We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us ... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.

J.I. Packer

#10. Man in society is like a flow'r,
Blown in its native bed. 'Tis there alone
His faculties expanded in full bloom
Shine out, there only reach their proper use.

William Cowper

#11. Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.

Juvenal

#12. Love is described like GOD.

Sara Pascoe

#13. The night is the color of the eyelids of the dead.

Alejandra Pizarnik

#14. I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Keeley Hawes

#15. When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

Kevin Smith

#16. Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, wherever you go.

Karen Cushman

#17. I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

Ken Wilber

#18. Evil flourishes because the good aren't good enough," see murmured. "And sometimes the good just have bad days.

K.J. Bishop

#19. If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.

Mencius

#20. Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.

B.R. Ambedkar

#21. A man who has little personality has but little influence for good or otherwise.

Frederick T. Croonborg

#22. Tiers of mountains
Cold wind feet
Not need fan
Ice cold through
Moon shines bright
Mist covers everything
Sit all alone
One old man

Hanshan

#23. Those of us who have already chosen to embrace a love ethic, know that when we let our light shine, we draw to us and are drawn to other bearers of light. We are not alone.

Bell Hooks

#24. Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

George Santayana

#25. Oh, no," Simi said. "We can't have that. Where you going, Mr. Meanie-Pants? You don't hurt people then run. That's just rude." She looked back at Caleb. "Can the Simi barbecue him, or is he on the 'No Simi' eat list?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#26. It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!

William Carlos Williams

#27. After the war I was going to make up for lost time. But the time I spent away, it's still lost. No matter what I do, it stays lost.

Steven Herrick

#28. Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me
Virtue alone is true nobility!

Juvenal