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I don't deserve your love or your shine, but I want it because with you I can feel the sun. I don't want to go back to those shadows.
I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm traveling toward light.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.
That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone!
My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!
That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.
Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.
I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.
Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other.
I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.
[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.
Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.
I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it.
The torrent of the reaching shade Broke shadow into all its parts, What then had been of shadow made Found exigence in fits and starts.
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini.
Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.
Hyeon means sunshine. Seo means good fortune. I chose it so that I would live my life in light and warmth and not return to the shadow.
I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.
I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.
There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.
The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.
If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.
There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun.
What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.
One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.
Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.
You may cross many bridges and you may travel many roads, but you will always carry your own nature with you! Your nature is your shadow!
But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.
We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.
A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell
Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.
Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.
And with a little sense of humor we can say that there are Christian bats who prefer the shadows to the light of the presence of the Lord.
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.
As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it.
Reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we have relegated to the shadow is the most reliable path to actualizing all of our human potential.
And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.
Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.
There are many lights in the shadows and many shadows in the lights; lots of talents in the shades, lots of incompetents in the luminosities
I love being called NTRs grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didnt try enough or maybe because I like it this way.
All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
I think that's probably the most devastating thing - when someone who is larger than life winds up a shadow of themselves in a hospital bed.