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Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
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Charles de Lint
“
You’re beautiful, just the way you are. Shine on. And dare anyone to turn off the lights.
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Mandy Hale (The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence)
“
Isn't it strange that all life can pretty much end, but the universe goes on as it is? No one else exists, but the moon keeps shining and the stars keep falling.
”
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Isabella Olivia Ellis (Love After The Gone)
“
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
“
Sometimes you look up and there just seems to be so many more stars that ever before. More. They burn brighter and they shine longer and they never vanish into your periphery when you turn your head. It's as if they come out for us and to remind us that their light took so long to come to us, that if we never had the patience to wait, we never would have seen them here, tonight, like this.
That as much as it hurts, sometimes it's all you can do, wait, endure and keep shining, knowing that eventually, your light will reach where it is supposed to reach and shine for who it is supposed to shine for.
It is never easy, but it is always worth it.
”
”
Tyler Knott Gregson (Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series)
“
But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on causing some hurt, we've got to try and stop 'em, but mostly what the rest of us should be concerning ourselves with is doing right by others. Every time you do a good turn, you shine the light a little further into the dark. And the thing is, even when we're gone, that light's going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
”
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Charles de Lint (Someplace to Be Flying (Newford, #5))
“
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.
”
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Don Santo
“
Something is discomforting about a sun that gives no heat but keeps shining.
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Renée Watson (Piecing Me Together)
“
You might make people uncomfortable,
even those you love them most and it will hurt.
The masses will likely misunderstand you and as a result they will judge you and even lash out at you and you may have to walk alone sometimes.
Your joy, your freedom and your magic will infuriate those who feel trapped in a life they secretly hate.
When your truth threatens someones belief system, they will come at you like a storm and you will have to stand and let them roar all around you.
If you're creating change, the people benefiting from the current system will likely try to stop you. Be brave. Stand. Hold space for change.
Keep writing. Keep dancing. Keep singing. Keep shining your light on the world.
We need your beauty and your truth.
We need you- the real you!
”
”
Brooke Hampton
“
You know telling someone not to worry is like telling the sun not to shine, don’t you?” she prodded. “It’s just going to keep shining anyway, because that’s what it does.
”
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Abigail Owen (The Rogue King (Inferno Rising, #1))
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In the end, we are two people who exchanged our love story for broken souls. I’m no longer his rain. He’s no longer the drought. We’ve become a tsunami, and left in its path of our destruction are two little cups of sunshine striving to keep shining. Ultimately, our children pay the price for our mistakes.
”
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Kathryn Perez (Letters Written in White)
“
If you keep shining the neon light of analysis and accountability on the tender tissue of your belonging, you make it parched and barren.
”
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John O'Donohue (Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom)
“
Sometimes you look up and there just seems to be so many more stars than ever before. More. They burn brighter and they shine longer and they never vanish into your periphery when you turn your head. It's as if they come out for us and to remind us that their light took so long to come to us, that if we never had the patience to wait, we never would have seen them here, tonight, like this.
That as much as it hurts, sometimes it's all you can do, wait, endure and keep shining, knowing that eventually, your light will reach where it is supposed to reach and shine for who it is supposed to shine for.
It is never easy, but it is always worth it.
”
”
Tyler Knott Gregson (Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series)
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Saints and bodhisattvas may achieve what Christians call mystical union or Buddhists call satori--a perpetual awareness of the force at the heart of the heart of things. For these enlightened few, the world is always lit. For the rest of us, such clarity comes only fitfully, in sudden glimpses or slow revelations. Quakers refer to these insights as openings. When I first heard the term from a Friend who was counseling me about my resistance to the Vietnam War, I though of how on an overcast day, sunlight pours through a break in the clouds. After the clouds drift on, eclipsing the sun, the sun keeps shining behind the veil, and the memory of its light shines on in the mind.
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Scott Russell Sanders (A Private History of Awe)
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Dont give up because you are not getting much.Keep shining ur light no matter how small.God makes all things(small/big)beautiful in his time
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Peter Rock
“
The thing about being someone’s star, though…that star owed a debt. If someone believed in it that much, the least it could do was keep shining.
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T.S. Joyce (New Vyr (Daughters of Beasts, #5))
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People are always intimidated by people who dare to be more than what they themselves dare to be. Keep Shining Anyway.
”
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Jeanette Coron
“
You're a rainbow in a sometimes dark world. Keep shining, my Alice-girl. Keep shining.
”
”
Tamara Bundy (Walking with Miss Millie)
“
But the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on causing some hurt, we've got to try and stop 'em, but mostly what the rest of us should be concerning ourselves with is doing right by others. Every time you do a good turn, you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, even when we're gone, that light's going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
”
”
Charles de Lint (Someplace to Be Flying)
“
This can be your year. No, let me rephrase that: this will be your year. The year you reveal your brilliance. The year you get into world-class health. The year you fall madly in love with life. And make each one of your moments works of art. Keep shining.
”
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Robin S. Sharma (The Mastery Manual)
“
He grabbed her hand and pointed her finger to the stars that filled the sky. “That’s you. Life is dark, but you’re going to keep shining. You can’t see how bright you are in your dark situation, but if you step outside of the pain, you would see what I see.” “What
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Laura Jackson (Worth the Wait (Waltham Academy Book 1))
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Ell's Double Down....5 Stars keep shining bright!
From Leah "I LOVED this book! The characters are strong and the story line never once is dull. It's so fun and fluid. Can't wait to read the second and third!"
Thank you Leah I am glad you enjoyed meeting Ell and Reggie!
”
”
Caroline Walken (Ell's Double Down (The Willows #1))
“
From a Berkeley Notebook'
~Denis Johnson
One changes so much
from moment to moment
that when one hugs
oneself against the chill
air at the inception
of spring, at night,
knees drawn to chin,
he finds himself in the arms
of a total stranger,
the arms of one he might move
away from on the dark playground.
Also, it breaks the heart
that the sign revolving like
a flame above the gas
station remembers the price
of gas, but forgets entirely
this face it has been
looking at all day.
And so the heart is exhausted
that even the face
of the dismal facts we wait
for the loves of the past
to come walking from the fire,
the tree, the stone, tangible
and unchanged and repentant
but what can you do.
Half the time I think
about my wife and child,
the other half I think how
to become a citizen
with an apartment, and sex
too is quite on my mind,
though it seems the women
have no time for you here,
for which in my larger, more
mature moments I can’t blame them.
These are the absolute
Pastures I am led to:
I am in Berkeley, California,
trapped inside my body,
I am the secret my body
is going to keep forever,
as if its secret were
merely silence. It lies
between two mistakes
of the earth,
the San Andreas
and Hayward faults,
and at night from
the hill above the stadium
where I sleep,
I can see the yellow
aurora of Telegraph
Avenue uplifted
by the holocaust.
My sleeping
bag has little
cowboys lassoing bulls
embroidered all over
its pastel inner
lining, the pines are tall
and straight, converging
in a sort of roof
above me, it’s nice,
oh loves, oh loves, why
aren’t you here? Morgan,
my pyjamas are so
lonesome without
the orangutans—I write
and write, and transcend
nothing, escape
nothing, nothing
is truly born from me,
yet magically it’s better
than nothing—I know
you must be quite
changed by now, but you
are just the same, too,
like those stars that keep
shining for a long time after
they go out—but it’s just a light
they touch us with this
evening amid the fine
rain like mist, among the pines.
”
”
Denis Johnson (The Incognito Lounge: And Other Poems)
“
Happy Father's Day to all the incredible dads in our world. Keep shining your light of love into your children's hearts. They will remember your loving memory long after you are gone❤
”
”
Timothy Pina (Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying)
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Happy Father's Day to all the incredible dads throughout our world. Keep shining your light of love into your children's hearts. They will cherish your loving memory long after you are gone❤
”
”
Timothy Pina (Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying)
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I don't know how to describe that feeling, just to say that it's kind of like cold, sunny days. Something is discomforting about a sun that gives no heat but keeps shining.
”
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Renée Watson (Piecing Me Together)
“
I showed [Della Reese] a few of the videos. 'You keep shining your light,' she said. And so that's what I'm committed to do.
”
”
Roma Downey
“
Often, you have difficulties not because you’re doing something wrong but because you’re doing something right. It’s because you are making a difference. It’s because you are taking new ground for your family. It’s because you are a threat to the enemy. He would leave you alone if you weren’t advancing the kingdom. He wouldn’t bother you if he didn’t know God had something amazing planned for you in your future. That’s why he is trying to make you discouraged and bitter and blaming God, to keep you from the new levels that God has in store for you.
Darkness never likes the light, but don’t worry about it. Light will always overtake the darkness. Just keep shining. Keep smiling. Hold on to your happiness and your joy. Keep treating people well even though they mistreat you. Do the right thing even though the wrong things happen to you again and again. Your troubles are a sure sign that God has something amazing planned in your future. Your happiness will be restored, in abundance.
The enemy will not roll out the red carpet and allow you to fulfill your destiny unopposed. He will throw out unexpected challenges, unexpected trouble, and unexpected difficulties. But know this: The God we serve has unexpected favor, unexpected healing, unexpected breakthroughs, and unexpected turnarounds.
”
”
Joel Osteen (Every Day a Friday: How to Be Happier 7 Days a Week)
“
Wallets wither, passports expire, but a character of light keeps shining.
”
”
Abhijit Naskar (Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım)
“
Brother ... join me in making a positive impact in this world. Every soul we touch is valuable in God’s eyes. I lost my insight some time ago when I moved to Meadows Field and left the family, but now I see that in God’s eyes, we can be the grace and blessing
for many people we encounter. As Chris Rupp once said, after we meet others, “Leave them better.”
Keep shining and working for God!
”
”
Kathryn Lee (Hope, Strength and Courage: With Stories in Medicine Training and the Atypical Sibling Rivalry)
“
Darkness cannot coexist in your light, so keep shining!
”
”
Gabrielle Bernstein (Super Attractor: Methods for Manifesting a Life beyond Your Wildest Dreams)
“
Empowerment is our journey from adversity to strength. To all survivors out there: Your resilience is your superpower, and your story is a beacon of hope for others. Keep shining, keep inspiring. (I Am A Survivor speech August 12, 2023)
”
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Carlos Wallace
“
Keep shining, keep dreaming, keep being good to people, and God will take care of the persecutors. He’ll deal with the critics, the jealous people, the opposition. People can’t stop your destiny. The blessing on your life is greater than any force that’s trying to hold you back.
”
”
Joel Osteen
“
Where life goes on and the stars keep shining and the person who loved me most has moved on but his heart has somehow stayed behind.
”
”
Emily Henry (A Million Junes)
“
Keep shining bright, even when others try to dim your light. Their negativity is just a reflection of their own insecurities.
”
”
G.K. Dutta
“
Don’t you dare stop growing. Don’t you dare stop glowing. Keep being that dazzling beam of light you are. Shine bright, thrive on, and let your brilliance light up the world around you. Your journey is just warming up, and the best is yet to come. Stay radiant, stay unstoppable, and never let anyone or anything dim your sparkle. So go on, glow-getter, keep sparkling, and keep shining—because the world needs your light!
”
”
Life is Positive
“
Don’t you dare stop growing. Don’t you dare stop glowing. Keep being that dazzling beam of light you are. Shine bright, thrive on, and let your brilliance light up the world around you. Your journey is just warming up, and the best is yet to come. Stay radiant, stay unstoppable, and never let anyone or anything dim your sparkle. So go on, glow-getter, keep sparkling and keep shining—because the world needs your light!
”
”
Life is Positive
“
It is said that light drives out darkness. But is it easy to be the light? To be defeated by the darkness all the time again and again. To be at his mercy and wait for it to play with yourself brutally till it is done with you and leave you feeling scared, ashamed, and alone, plagued by flashbacks of last night’s onslaught, but still keep shining for others.
”
”
Shubham Singhania (Dark little corners)
“
You're not just a pleasant sight; you're a masterpiece, complete with freckles, quirks, and all! Embrace your unique beauty, and let those freckles shine like constellations in the night sky. After all, it's the imperfections that make you perfectly you. So, flaunt those freckles, embrace your flaws, and rock your individuality like the star you are! Remember, it's not about being flawless; it's about being flawlessly authentic. Keep shining.
”
”
Life is Positive
“
You can't worry about how people view you or what they say about you just keep shining.
”
”
Alcurtis Turner
“
Be like the sun; bear with those in the dark, but keep shining your light.
”
”
Matshona Dhliwayo
“
You were born to be a star, all you need to do is keep shining.
”
”
Gift Gugu Mona
“
You shine that light on as many people as possible. Even those mean girls. You don’t have to be friends with them, but you just keep shining. Don’t let them know they affected you at all.
”
”
Catherine Cowles (Shadows of You (Lost & Found, #4))
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You’re a rockstar, no doubt about it! You’ve got that undeniable energy, confidence, and the ability to light up any room you walk into. Whether you’re killing it in your career, rocking your personal life, or just being your awesome self, you’re the headline act. Keep shining, keep slaying, and keep owning your stage—because you were born to stand out and crush it like the rockstar you are!
”
”
Life is Positive
“
Do not be afraid, you are God with a small g whereas he is God with a
capital G, Ps82:1-6. When you criticize your self you are also
criticizing the intelligence of the one who created you, Rom14:7-8. No
matter the circumstances; you were created to outshine; never
underestimate you abilities. You are the most outstanding piece among
all God's work. If he were to make a show off you would be his
showpiece. Keep shining!!!
”
”
Nonhlanhla Annah Thusi (You are God's masterpiece: God's showpiece)
“
Look up, look at the stars. You know, some of those shining stars don't exist any more, they exploded long ago, yet their light keeps shining. Be a star my friend, and burn with all your might, so that your light lives on, even after you die.
”
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Abhijit Naskar (Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race)
“
Dear Daughter,
Never give others the power to decide how far you go in life. Climb up and keep shining your light.
”
”
Gift Gugu Mona (Dear Daughter: Short and Sweet Messages for a Queen)
“
Look At The Stars (The Sonnet)
Look up my friend, look at the stars,
You know some of them exploded long ago.
Yet their light keeps shining even when they're gone,
For none of their rays is tainted by ego.
Not a kernel of kindness ever goes to waste,
Not a gesture of gentleness ever goes awry.
The unselfish one is the happiest person in the world,
You'll find joy when you answer someone's cry.
You're thirsty, you seek a glass of water,
That is just plain necessity.
Someone else is thirsty, you share your last glass,
That my friend, is plain humanity.
When self-preservation turns trivial, ‘n humanity common sense,
That's when a star is born, amidst all self-serving nuisance.
”
”
Abhijit Naskar (The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work)
“
A MOTHER'S LOVE NEVER DIES...IT KEEP SHINING AS BRIGHT AS THE STARS IN THE NGHT SKIES ABOVE ❤️
”
”
Timothy Pina (Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying)
“
A MOTHER'S LOVE NEVER DIES...IT KEEP SHINING AS BRIGHT AS THE STARS IN THE DARKEN NIGHT SKIES ABOVE FOREVER ❤️
”
”
Timothy Pina (Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying)
“
You are the lighthouse that guides others through their darkest storms. Keep shining, and never forget to light your own path to greatness, for you are someone's beacon of hope.
”
”
Emmanuel Apetsi
“
You are enough.
You are more than enough.
You have always been and will always be enough.
Keep shining bright, and never forget that you are loved beyond measure.
”
”
Leyda Lazo
“
A MOTHER'S LOVE NEVER DIES...
IT KEEPS SHINING AS BRIGHT AS THE STARS IN THE DARKEN NIGHT SKIES ABOVE FOREVER ❤️A MOTHER'S LOVE NEVER DIES...IT KEEPS SHINING AS BRIGHT AS THE STARS IN THE DARKEN NIGHT SKIES ABOVE, FOREVER ❤️
”
”
Timothy Pina (Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying)
“
A MOTHER'S LOVE NEVER DIES...
IT KEEPS SHINING AS BRIGHT AS THE STARS IN THE DARKEN NIGHT SKIES ABOVE, FOREVER
”
”
Timothy Pina (Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying)
“
In these darken times...
Keep shining your light of love for all the world to see.
Because kindness is everything.
”
”
Timothy Pina (Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying)
“
Racism in America is like dust in the air. It seems invisible — even if you’re choking on it — until you let the sun in. As long as we keep shining that light, we have a chance of cleaning it wherever it lands.
”
”
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“
Keep Shining. You're born to show the light.
”
”
CJ Singh
“
Earthly Angels do not allow other souls to dim their light; they just keep shining bright as the sun, for this helps other souls to reconnect with their own light and shine brightly too!
”
”
Molly Friedenfeld