#ado

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. ↗

— Buddha

#follows #joy #leaves #like #mind

Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance for us. Dance us the sweetness of life. Give us again the sweetness and the beauty of the true dance, give us again the joy of seeing the simple unconscious pure body of a woman. Like a great call it has come, and women must hear it and answer it. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#isadora-duncan #spirituality #women #art

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger. ↗

— George W. Bush

#danger #determined #live #our #refuse

Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#alike #alter #anything #book #carrie

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. ↗

— Albert Camus

#any #enough #faith #force #insure

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! ↗

— Angela Cartwright

#been #i #journey #now #quite

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows. ↗

— Jennie Churchill

#forever #shadows #substance #throwing

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#because #exchange #hazardous #me #my soul

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#already #elegance #escaped #future #just

How many more times would I have embraced him that night, how many more times would I have kissed him, if I had known the name of that stranger lover who was already in Montreal, who had already bought his stadium ticket from a scalper for the 5,000 tomorrow. That implacable lover who was going to turn Billy's eyes away from me forever. ↗

— Patricia Nell Warren

#foreshadowing #gay #life #love #romance