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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
Inspirational
You
Sunshine
Will
Face
Fall
Shadows
Toward
Always
Behind
Your
Keep
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
Francis of Assisi
Inspirational
Drive
Single
Enough
Sunbeam
Shadows
Many
Away
Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.
Amitabh Bachchan
Wisdom
You
Women
People
Light
Will
Own
Live
Thinking
Meet
Tell
Dress
Shadows
Boundaries
Force
Make
Judgement
Because
How
Go
Behave
Where
Choices
Your
Who
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Life
Government
Sick
Needy
Once
Those
Moral
Shadows
Dawn
Said
How
Test
Handicapped
Children
Elderly
Who
Twilight
Treats
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thoughts
Feelings
Our
Darker
Shadows
Simpler
Always
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Charles Dickens
Dark
Stronger
Earth
Dark Shadows
Shadows
Lights
Contrast
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Blaise Pascal
Faith
Light
Believe
Enough
Those
Shadows
Blind
Want
Who
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life
Morning
Age
Youth
See
Shadows
Entirely
Disappear
Almost
Most
Period
Frequently
Passions
Begun
Midday
Middle
Middle Age
Which
Happiest
Large
Evening
Eager
Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.
Kay Granger
Life
Rights
Liberty
Entitled
Few
Human Rights
Those
Definition
Shadows
Dawn
Privilege
Dusk
Human
Granted
Include
Humans
When walking through the 'valley of shadows,' remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
Austin O'Malley
Remember
Light
Valley
Shadow
Shadows
Cast
Through
Walking
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Elie Wiesel
Truth
Memories
Truth Is
People
Words
Think
Follow
Shadows
Objects
Ideas
Most
Also
Surround
Precede
Impulses
Deeds
Beings
Desires
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats
You
Eyes
Book
Old
Fire
Down
Once
Dream
Slowly
Shadows
Take
Had
Look
Read
Your
Full
Deep
Gray
Sleep
Soft
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
O. Henry
Love
Art
Family
Religion
Man
Business
Patriotism
Words
Nothing
Starving
Shadows
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
William Butler Yeats
Alone
Light
Shadow
Shadows
Lights
Looks
Always
Motive
Deed
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Edmund Burke
Art
Nothing
Shadows
Poetry
Existence
Lending
Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.
Evita Peron
Mirror
Sun
See
Shadows
Cannot
Themselves
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
James Shirley
Death
Fate
Made
Dust
Down
State
Our
Must
Crooked
Kings
Shadows
Crown
Lays
Equal
Armour
His
Hand
Blood
Substantial
Tumble
Spade
Against
Poor
Icy
Things
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
Roger Waters
Death
Me
World
Will
Fall
Pain
Final
Dim
Scare
Shadows
Indifference
Merciless
Blind
Nor
Wall
Body
Ground
Barrels
Star
Rifles
Last
Night
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Thomas Browne
Life
Death
Living
Shadow
Shadows
Souls
Itself
Departed
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Gaston Bachelard
Morning
Soul
Rest
Sets
Our
Possession
Out
Must
Rarely
Shadows
Only
Opens
Within
Does
Repose
Being
Us
Sweep
Body
Phantoms
Inn
Belong
Night
Sleep
It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.
Helena Blavatsky
Religion
Past
Every
Finally
Philosophy
Those
Out
Shadows
Checking
Along
Trace
Go
Screen
Them
Fantastic
Then
Produced
Body
Comparing
External
The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
Paramahansa Yogananda
God
Man
Light
Made
Men
Types
Dream
Cosmic
Shadows
Perceived
Delusion
Looks
Who
Consciousness
Images
After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.
Ray Bradbury
People
Gone
Side
Saw
Photograph
Shadows
Remained
Had
House
Were
Hiroshima
Wall
Intensity
Burned
After
Who
Lived
Bomb
Bombed
Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.
Roy H. Williams
Words
Shadows
Cast
Mere
Ideas
Real
Represent
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
Desiderius Erasmus
You
Think
Philosopher
Those
Emerged
Shadows
Objects
Only
Sees
Various
Marvel
Miss
Between
Know
Content
Real
Provided
Cave
Difference
Who
Plato
Things
Images
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.
Helena Blavatsky
Events
Fall
Past
Before
Impress
Shadows
Cast
Said
Leave
Coming
Past Events
Behind
Cannot
Them
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