#shining

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children. ↗

— Patricia Sun

#around #beauty #because #brains #brilliance

I want a leader that sets out a path. I want one that doesn't just talk about cuts, but talks about the shining city on the hill. We're only going to get out of this problem if we grow this economy. ↗

— Kevin McCarthy

#city #cuts #economy #get #going

You’re beautiful, just the way you are. Shine on. And dare anyone to turn off the lights. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#beauty #confidence #inner-beauty #keep-shining #loving-yourself

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

#authenticity #beauty #being-fabulous #being-yourself #fabulous

I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#box #bring #could #go #got

We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#enough #express #free #given #gratitude

Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold. ↗

— Zahi Hawass

#cannot #covered #explained #fifty #gold

As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#ahead #america #best #city #days

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#defect #glaring #hides #lends #lustre

Men, we don't need you to be a knight in shining armor. We just need you to be a little bit brave, just a little bit. And some of them are, and that's what he does. ↗

— Virginia Madsen

#bit #brave #does #just #knight