Basking Quotes:

I'm just basking in the glory.

- Johnny Knoxville

topic: Glory, Basking

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

topic: Beach, Lying, Taken, Basking

There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

- Germaine Greer

topic: Coffee, Home, Men, Basking, Women Want

You were the leaves, basking in the sunlight. I was the root, growing in the darkness ~Danzo

- Masashi Kishimoto

topic: Roots, Darkness, Growing, Basking

Every day, or at least twice a week, take a few minutes and focus on seeing yourself in joy. Feel yourself in joy. Imagine only joy ahead in your life and see yourself basking in it. As you do this the Universe will move all people, circumstances, and events to bring you joy, joy and more joy.

- Rhonda Byrne

topic: Moving, People, Focus, Seeing Yourself, Basking

In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why? Smiling to yourself is like basking in love: you become your own best friend. Living with an inner smile is to live in harmony with yourself.

- Mantak Chia

topic: Love You, Taught, Ancient, Basking, Eastern Philosophy

He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.166, Tyché

topic: Reading, Sleep, Hands, Basking

When you aren't drinking or using drugs or spending lots of money on fancy toys or basking in the glow of fame or working all the time or eating your way through the refrigerator, being hateful and angry is a very handy shield from the truth. It lets you focus on everyone else's shortcomings, and all the ways they have let you down. You can bemoan how all these broken people keep finding you somehow. That way you don't have to focus on what really matters -- the tough work of fiing what is broken inside you.

- Glenn Beck

source: Glenn Beck, Keith Ablow (2012). “The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

topic: Drinking, Broken Inside, People, Spending A Lot Of Money, Basking

When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in the cold, dark little room off the self, trying to turn on the light and turn up the heat, when we can just go outside into God's glorious Sonlight and receive his rays! How silly to fuss with artificial tanning salons and lotions and lights when the Son is out!

- Peter Kreeft

topic: Silly, Son, Dark, Basking, Tanning

Check what you did right and don't get lost in basking on your glory. It will make it easier to repeat whatever you did that created the success.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Glory, Easier, Lost, Basking

I love this place; I love mountains and big skies and forests. And the weather is still supremely beautiful even though the lower peaks are powdered with fresh snow. But Heavens! What sun. It never has an ending. I am basking at this minute - half past four - too hot without a hat, & the sky is that transparent blue only to be seen in autumn - the forest trees steeped in light.

- Katherine Mansfield

source: Katherine Mansfield (1996). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume IV: 1920-1921”, p.313, Clarendon Press

topic: Beautiful, Autumn, Past, Basking, Fresh Snow

Then her eyes narrowed. The sun was spilling in the window behind her and Dageus's eyes were golden, dappled with darker flecks. Smoky and sensual, fringed by thick dark lashes, but gold nonetheless. "What is with your eyes?" she exclaimed. "Is it part of being a Druid?" "What color are they?" he asked warily. "Gold." He flashed her another unguarded smile. It was like basking in the sun, she thought, tracing her fingers over his beard-shadowed jaw, smiling helplessly back.

- Karen Marie Moning

source: Karen Marie Moning (2002). “The Dark Highlander”, p.264, Dell

topic: Eye, Dark, Color, Basking, Spilling

...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation")

- E.F. Benson

source: E. F. Benson (2015). “Spook Stories - Complete Collection: 25 Supernatural, Mystery, Ghost and Haunting Tales”, p.80, e-artnow

topic: Sea, Employment, Apotheosis, Basking, Loafing

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

- Viola Davis

source: Source: aalbc.com

topic: The End Of The Day, World, Ends, Navigate, Basking

Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Sacrifice, Reality, Feelings, Basking, Sentimentality

Every day  take a few minutes and focus on SEEING yourself in joy. FEEL yourself in joy. IMAGINE only joy ahead in your life and see yourself basking in it You can't be in joy if you have money worries, or health worries, or relationship problems with friends or family. So deposit some joy in the bank of the Universe as often as you can. There isn't an investment that is more worthwhile.

- Rhonda Byrne

source: Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

topic: Seeing Yourself, Basking, Relationship Problem

Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of us. Many of us are never granted this kind of assurance. Certitude is not the real substance of faith. Faith is a way of seeing things.

- Ronald Rolheiser

topic: Real, Way, Substance, Basking, Certitude

In my vast experience, I've found it always wiser to go along with female advice.... First, you make them happy by doing what they tell you. That's the main thing. Let them think they're in control. They love it. Then, if it turns out they were right, everything's cool. If it turns out they were wrong ... then you have the pleasure of basking in the glow of superiority.

- Richard Laymon

source: "The Stake".

topic: Thinking, Advice, Firsts, Basking

They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Envy, Mind, May, Basking, Afterglow

Once upon a time there was a bear and a bee who lived in a wood and were the best of friends. All summer long the bee collected nectar from morning to night while the bear lay on his back basking in the long grass. When winter came the bear realised he had nothing to eat and thought to himself 'I hope that busy little bee will share some of his honey with me.' But the bee was nowhere to be found - he had died of a stress induced coronary disease.

- Banksy

topic: Summer, Morning, Stress, Basking, Little Bee

To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals. If these little creatures knew how great a change awaited them, no doubt they would regret it; but would not all such sorrow be misplaced?

- Anne Bronte

topic: Sweet, Regret, Fear, Basking, Sweet Honey

It was a light that shone over our faces, our wounds and scars. It was a light so brilliant and white it could have been beamed from heaven, and Brian and I could have been angels, basking in it. But it wasn’t, and we weren’t.

- Scott Heim

source: Scott Heim (1995). “Mysterious skin: a novel”, HarperCollins Publishers

topic: Angel, Light, Wounds And Scars, Basking

Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or a passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convinced that even the smallest particle of the surrounding world was charged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, and one would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind- loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by the high, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, so many and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like fireflies in the perfumed heat of summer night.

- Mark Strand

topic: Summer, Strong, Passion, Basking, Summer Nights

My love has eyes blue as the sky. Her warm, bright smile makes me want to try To give her the world, And when she's curled Up in my arms where I can feel her touch, I realize again that I love her so much. My world has turned from black to white. Kissing in starlight, basking in sunlight, dancing at midnight.' ~John's poem for Belle

- Julia Quinn

topic: Eye, Kissing, Blue, Basking, Belle

Lesbian?” Payton turned around and saw J.D. standing there. Maybe it was the wine. Maybe she was basking in the glow of their successful pitch to Gibson’s. Maybe it was her promise to Laney to be the “New Payton,” or maybe it was a combination of all those things. But Payton actually found herself smiling at J.D. It’s just an excuse, the lesbian thing,” she said.

- Julie James

topic: Wine, Successful, Promise, Basking, Standing There