quotes about Radiance
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When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
-- Anatole Broyard -
Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.
-- Anna Letitia BarbauldSource : Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin (1826). “The works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld: with a memoir”, p.87
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She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
-- Boy George -
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Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.
-- Brooks AtkinsonSource : Brooks Atkinson, Robert G. Lowery (1982). “Sean O'Casey, from times past”, Barnes & Noble
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We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.
-- David Deida -
Don't you see yourself in every picture you love? You feel a radiance wash through you. It's something you can't analyze or speak about clearly. What are you doing at that moment? You're looking at a picture on a wall. That's all. But it makes you feel alive in the world. It tells you yes, you're here. And yes, you have a range of being that's deeper and sweeter than you knew.
-- Didi -
Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught
-- Frances Ridley HavergalSource : Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.1
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What is life without the radiance of love?
-- Friedrich Schiller -
All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.
-- Gerald MasseySource : Gerald Massey (1889). “My Lyrical Life: Poems Old and New”
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It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance.
-- Hildegard of Bingen -
We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, theres still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.
-- Ishmael Beah -
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We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come tomorrow has possibilities, and we must think of it, the simplest glimpse of that possibility of goodness. That will be our strength. That has always been our strength.
-- Ishmael BeahSource : "The Brilliance of Ishmael Beah" by Nina Sankovitch, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2014.
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All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is
-- James Agee -
Contemplation places us in a purity and radiance which is far above our understanding.
-- John of Ruysbroeck -
And that Aha! that you get when you see an artwork that really hits you is, 'I am that.' I am the very radiance of energy that is talking to me through this painting.
-- Joseph Campbell -
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Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object.
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Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
-- Khaled Hosseini -
Our natural state of being is in relationship, a tango, a constant state of one influencing the other. Just as the subatomic particles that compose us cannot be separated from the space and particles surrounding them, so living beings cannot be isolated from each other... By the act of observation and intention, we have the ability to extend a kind of super-radiance to the world.
-- Lynne McTaggart -
Today, refuse to see yourself as a recipient of negative vibrations or as a victim of subtle or gross influence around you. Practice broadcasting the high vibrations of your inner radiance remembering all the while that the place upon which you stand is holy simply because you are standing there.
-- Michael Beckwith -
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To me, wholeness is the key to aliveness. It is more than just physical vitality, it is radiance, coming from being at one with yourself and your experience. Life then flows through you.
-- Richard Moss -
But the 'project of me' can never be enough, for it does not meet 'the other,' and real living involves meeting. The touch and contact with all of life, the full freedom of non-separation, the completeness of full relationship, and the radiance of compassionate ecstasy is what we are inherently hungry for.
-- Rick Jarow -
O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares – Make me your servant, your breath, your core.
-- Rumi -
Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.
-- Rumi -
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I simply define glory as the beauty of God unveiled. Glory is the resplendent radiance of His power and His personality. Glory is all of God that makes God God, and shows Him to be worthy of our praise and our boasting and our trust and our hope and our confidence and our joy.
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You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
-- Victor Hugo -
Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
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Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.
-- Vincent McNabb -
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One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.
-- Allan LokosSource : Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.143, Penguin