The supreme prayer of my heart is not to be learned, rich, famous, powerful, or "good", but simply to be radiant. I desire to radiate health, cheerfulness, calm courage, and good will. I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural, clean in mind and clean in body, unaffected - as ready to say "I do not know", if it be so, and to meet all men on an absolute equality - to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
I wish others to live their lives, too - up to their highest, fullest, and best. To that end I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference, and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be radiant - to radiate life.
-Elbert Hubbard, Love, Life & Work; Roycroft Press, 1906
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soul_flower
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Love,Life & Work!!
~*~* May the God and Goddess within you shine*~*~
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On radiance
To radiate life, you must have a core unending supply -- Congratulations on that!
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heruthegreat
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be radiant 1. emitting rays of light; shining; bright: the radiant sun; radiant colors.
2. bright with joy, hope, etc.: radiant smiles; a radiant future.
3. Physics. emitted or propagated by radiation.
4. Heraldry.
a. noting a partition line having a series of flamelike indentations formed by ogees joined in zigzags; rayonny.
b. (of a charge, as an ordinary) having an edge or edges so formed.
–noun
5. a point or object from which rays proceed.
6. Astronomy. the point in the heavens from which a shower of meteors appears to radiate.
7. a refractory absorbing and radiating heat from the flames of a gas fireplace or the like.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < L radiant- (s. of radiāns, prp. of radiāre to radiate light, shine), equiv. to radi(us) beam, ray (see radius ) + -ant- -ant
Related forms:
ra⋅di⋅ant⋅ly, adverb
Synonyms:
1. beaming, refulgent, resplendent. See bright.
2. bright with joy, hope, etc.: radiant smiles; a radiant future.
3. Physics. emitted or propagated by radiation.
4. Heraldry.
a. noting a partition line having a series of flamelike indentations formed by ogees joined in zigzags; rayonny.
b. (of a charge, as an ordinary) having an edge or edges so formed.
–noun
5. a point or object from which rays proceed.
6. Astronomy. the point in the heavens from which a shower of meteors appears to radiate.
7. a refractory absorbing and radiating heat from the flames of a gas fireplace or the like.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < L radiant- (s. of radiāns, prp. of radiāre to radiate light, shine), equiv. to radi(us) beam, ray (see radius ) + -ant- -ant
Related forms:
ra⋅di⋅ant⋅ly, adverb
Synonyms:
1. beaming, refulgent, resplendent. See bright.
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