“i want to be
in love with you

the same way
i am in
love with the moon

with the light
shining
out of its soul.”
― Sanober Khan

“Consider the fact that maybe…just maybe…beauty and worth aren’t found in a makeup bottle, or a salon-fresh hairstyle, or a fabulous outfit. Maybe our sparkle comes from somewhere deeper inside, somewhere so pure and authentic and REAL, it doesn’t need gloss or polish or glitter to shine.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“When we crave the touch and the feel of an unfeigned world, we must not waver and put our quest on the back burner, but scratch anxiously the shining shell of a fair-weather world, find out how to discover real values; and foster a candid quality of our desire ("Absence of Desire" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Sometimes, it is how you shine in the darkness during other people's misery that is remembered more than anything you could have said or done when you have suffered just as much.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“A lot of folks, they got a little bit of shine to them. They don't even know it. But they always seem to show up with flowers when their wives are feelin blue with the monthlies, they do good on school tests they don't even study for, they got a good idea how people are feelin as soon as they walk into a room.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Some people will always try
to put you down.
Just keep going,
soar high into the sky
and keep shining like a star.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“When the stars fall into darkness, I will quietly shine for you.”
― Mika Yamamori

“Pride is a shiny weakness.”
― Toba Beta

“Haters hold onto the lies they tell themselves just to feel good. But you keep shining because that's what you're good at and it is that matters.”
― DON SANTO

“A fool tries to outshine the sun; the wise gets closer to the sun and learns the art of shining.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Nesta, this once-human female who had conquered death, who now glowed as if she had devoured the moon, too.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“Glow wherever you go and let the light of God reflect in the world around you. You carry the light of God and wherever you pass, darkness must flee.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“Letting others shine their light gives you enough illumination to light your own.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Give of your splendor to everyone.
Like the sun.”
― Emmanuelle Soni-Dessaigne

“YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE
SO PLEASE NEVER STOP
SHINING!”
― Qwana Reynolds-Frasier, Friend In Your Pocket

“You keep my light shining bright!”
― Steven Magee

“Le persone sono stelle. Il momento in cui si spengono è anche quello in cui la loro bellezza risplende maggiormente.”
― Muneyuki Kaneshiro, As The Gods Will: The Second Series Vol. 5

“Gold worn on clothing stirs up greed in other's eyes, so one must strive to shine like gold without donning it.”
― Godrick, Shambala Sect

“Stranger on your path, with a candle to spare, leave one behind, where light escapes.

And the Sun expects nothing.”
― Alogaristw

“Be like glitter, shine everywhere people put you in and put you on.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“For the candle to shine brighter, one doesn't have to put off other candles around; the more the candles the brighter the light”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Every thought shines a light.
Every thought shows the way.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Foreheads have more stars than the night sky.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Stars really shine when camping!”
― Steven Magee

“Almost here with me, you seem to be, you do,
every song, each sound, that’s new, is you,
almost is enough, if just for me you are,
passionate, my blood will boil for you, my star,
of you I think when raindrops pure,
make you seem like sky, or clouds, or sun, or stars; -
the stars, afar from, always shining soft,
each evening, their light is needed, for needs do come oft…”
― Will Advise, На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...

“Using words with meanings pure
is a sign of cleanliness of mind,
yet if thoughts that shine, from sadness wouldn’t cure,
there no cleanliness you’d find…”
― Will Advise, На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...

“The sun is shining. You woke up this morning. Tomorrow is unknown. Only the right now matters.”
― Grace McGinty, The Daymakers

“Love doesn’t try to figure shit out, or solve anything. It just shines. Radiant and boundless, dangerous. Refined.”
― Robin Brown, Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir

“Never drops an answer from those worlds unknown:
Yet no ray is shining for itself alone.”
― Lucy Larcom

“When oppressed and lost people see your supernatural life shining so bright, they are attracted! They are attracted to the Jesus in you.”
― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression