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I'm just basking in the glory. -- Johnny Knoxville
You were the leaves, basking in the sunlight. I was the root, growing in the darkness ~Danzo -- Masashi Kishimoto
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence. -- Virginia Woolf
Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action. -- Hermann Hesse
Check what you did right and don't get lost in basking on your glory. It will make it easier to repeat whatever you did that created the success. -- Norman Vincent Peale
...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation") -- E. F. Benson
In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why? Smiling to yourself is like basking in love: you become your own best friend. Living with an inner smile is to live in harmony with yourself. -- Mantak Chia
Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of us. Many of us are never granted this kind of assurance. Certitude is not the real substance of faith. Faith is a way of seeing things. -- Ronald Rolheiser
The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you. -- Viola Davis
They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Every day, or at least twice a week, take a few minutes and focus on seeing yourself in joy. Feel yourself in joy. Imagine only joy ahead in your life and see yourself basking in it. As you do this the Universe will move all people, circumstances, and events to bring you joy, joy and more joy. -- Rhonda Byrne
My love has eyes blue as the sky. Her warm, bright smile makes me want to try To give her the world, And when she's curled Up in my arms where I can feel her touch, I realize again that I love her so much. My world has turned from black to white. Kissing in starlight, basking in sunlight, dancing at midnight.' ~John's poem for Belle -- Julia Quinn
In my vast experience, I've found it always wiser to go along with female advice.... First, you make them happy by doing what they tell you. That's the main thing. Let them think they're in control. They love it. Then, if it turns out they were right, everything's cool. If it turns out they were wrong ... then you have the pleasure of basking in the glow of superiority. -- Richard Laymon
Which is better off, a lizard basking in the sun or a philosopher? -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land." -- Arnold J. Toynbee
I close my eyes and melt in its embrace, basking in the sweetest balm of forgiveness: that for which one need not even ask. -- Leslie Cannold
The best thing you can ever have is peace of mind, it is a basking fire to keep a cold heart in warmth, and a fortified confidence to be proud of. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
We lie on the blanket, our bare bodies basking in the sun like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Only our apples were bitten a long time ago, and we ate them too. -- Henry Martin

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