Shining Through Quotes:

Even when sisters are different... Their likeness comes shining through!

- Mary Engelbreit

source: Mary Engelbreit (2002). “The Blessings of Friendship: A Friendship Treasury”, p.62, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Shining, Different, Shining Through

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

- John Jakes

source: FaceBook post by John Jakes from Sep 19, 2014

topic: Positive, Being Yourself, Believe, Inspirations Being Yourself, Shining Through

Those true eyes, Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise, The sweet soul shining through them.

- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

source: "Lucile". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1860.

topic: Sweet, Eye, Love At First Sight, Lovely Eyes, Through My Eyes

Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.

- Thomas Merton

topic: Nice, Simple, Shining, Gates Of Heaven, Shining Through

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

- Edith Wharton

source: "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Empowering Women, Social Good

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Motivational, Pain, Attitude, Great Positive Attitude, Positive Attitude And Success

The way of peace is a soul journey. . . . If you can live from the level of your soul, you are doing something very special. The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself, like a lamp shining through the window of eternity.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Spiritual, Journey, Shining, Shining Through

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

- Maxfield Parrish

source: Letter to F.W Weber in 1950. "Maxfield Parrish". Book by Coy L. Ludwig, 1973.

topic: Beautiful, Color, White, Shining Through

Happiness is your True Nature. Within you is Unimaginable Beauty. Your True Self is Bright and Shining this Moment. Through the clear Realization of the Truth, your Real Self will come shining through.

- Robert Adams

topic: Real, Self, Shining, Shining Through

An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.

- Robert Henri

source: Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

topic: Artist, Shining, Technique, Shining Through

If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

- Nat King Cole

source: Song: Smile

topic: Philosophy, Shining, Sorrow, Pain And Sorrow, Maybe Tomorrow

You can put in a curl or put on a lip color or mascara, but the important thing is that the health of your skin and hair is shining through.

- Erin Heatherton

topic: Hair, Color, Shining, Shining Through

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.

- Thomas Otway

topic: Clouds, Shining, Tears, Load, Shining Through

Now you are changed people. Your personality is different. It's shining through your spirit. In that spirit, you have to see everything. All your conditionings will drop out as soon as you start identifying your Self fully, fully with the spirit. Fully - again I say because we do not. We are still Christians. We are still Hindus. We are still Muslims. We are still Indians, English, this, that. We are still narrow-minded, small, little puddles. We have to be the ocean. Once you are identified with the ocean, you have to throw away everything and become absolutely clean and detached.

- Nirmala Srivastava

topic: Love, Christian, Wisdom, Shining Through, Narrow-minded

Sirius's gaunt face broke out into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it. The difference it made was startling, as though a person ten years younger were shining through the starved mask; for a moment he was recognizable as the man who had laughed at Harry's parents' wedding.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Men, Years, Differences, Shining Through

Somewhat of goodness, something true From sun and spirit shining through All faiths, all worlds, as through the dark Of ocean shines the lighthouse spark, Attests the presence everywhere Of love and providential care.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

source: John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.346

topic: Ocean, Dark, Shining, Lighthouse, Shining Through

Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

- Jane Porter

source: Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.84

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Ideas, Loveliness, Shining Through

Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.

- Candace Wheeler

source: Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

topic: Blessed, Heaven, Shining, Shining Through

I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing in my veins to prompt minimal sentience, to declare my view for the record that Drummer Jokes are a cruel and pernicious form of humour introduced to the world by under-humoured persons lacking in sensitivity and concern for other drummers.

- Robert Fripp

topic: Morning, Views, Shining, Concern For Others, Pernicious

I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Nature, Moving, Fall, Shining Through

I have learned to accept it, even ask for it, this 'more than I can handle.' Because in these times, God shows Himself victorious. He reminds me that all of this life requires more of Him and less of me. God does give us more than we can handle. Not maliciously, but intentionally, in love, that His glory may be displayed, that we may have no doubt of who is in control, that people may see His grace and faithfulness shining through our lives.

- Katie Davis

topic: Giving, People, Shining, Shining Through

The common meaning of gratitude is to be thankful for benefits received. While this is important, I feel that the energy of gratitude is one of the most powerful attracting forces in the universe. A heart filled with Thanksgiving, even when appearances tell us that we are mired in scarcity, conflict, and affliction, moves us to a higher frequency in consciousness and we soon witness reality shining through the illusion.

- John Randolph Price

topic: Gratitude, Powerful, Moving, Heart Filled, Shining Through

All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies. Again, shining through the mind of a poet, it is seen in fine poetry and poetic prose. When the Light of the Sun of Truth inspires the mind of a painter, he produces marvellous pictures. These gifts are fulfilling their highest purpose, when showing forth the praise of God.

- Abdu'l-Bahá

topic: Beautiful, Art, Light, Shining Through

Although we were not able to shatter that highest and hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it has 18 million cracks in it, and the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time, and we are going to keep working to make it so, today keep with me and stand for me, we still have so much to do together, we made history, and lets make some more.

- Hillary Clinton

source: "Is it sexist to talk about Hillary Clinton's age?" by David Frum, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2014.

topic: Glasses, Light, Shining, Glass Ceiling, Shining Through

You gotta have faith. Even at the bottom of the blackest hole, there will always be light shining through. It just takes faith to see it.

- Shannon Leto

topic: Light, Shining, Have Faith, Shining Through

Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a doliphin friend. He would have merry eyes and thick flesh of a god. My fingernails would be tiny shells and my skin would be like jade with light shining through it I would never have to come back up

- Francesca Lia Block

topic: Eye, Light, Blue, Thick, Jade

Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.

- Colum McCann

topic: Dark, Shining, Lessons, Shining Through

I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.

- Laurie Halse Anderson

source: Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.21, Penguin

topic: Space, Shining, Daylight, Wintergirls, Thighs

Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it's breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by if you smile through your pain and sorrow. Smile and maybe tomorrow, you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

- Charlie Chaplin

topic: Pain, Optimistic, Heart, Pain And Sorrow, Maybe Tomorrow

I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision.

- Henry Miller

source: Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

topic: Eye, Swimming, Shining, Shining Through, Signs And Symbols

I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing.

- Tim Pawlenty

source: "Tim Pawlenty Reacts to First 2012 Republican Presidential Debate". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. May 05, 2011.

topic: Shining, Support, Technique, Interrogation, Interrogation Techniques

The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2001). “Salem Falls”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

topic: Stars, People, Shining, Inuit, Shining Through

Lovin' you has made my life so beautiful And every day of my life is filled with lovin' you Lovin' you I see your soul come shining through And every time that we ooooh I'm more in love with you

- Minnie Riperton

topic: Beautiful, Song, Love You, Shining Through

And I'll see your true colors shining through I see your true colors and that's why I love you so don't be afraid to let them show your true colors, true colors are beautiful like a RAINBOW...

- Cyndi Lauper

source: Song: True Colors, Album: True Colors, 1986

topic: Beautiful, Love You, Color, True Colors, Shining Through

How can I appreciate light from an aging sun shining through new configurations neither pine nor ash? How can I extol the nuturing fragrances from the spires, the spicules of a landscape not yet formed or seeded?

- Pattiann Rogers

source: Pattiann Rogers (1994). “Firekeeper: new & selected poems”

topic: Light, Appreciate, Shining, Spires, Shining Through