#shadow

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides. ↗

— Junichiro Tanizaki

#dark #find #itself #light #only

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#anyone #believe #decided #did #fail

To contemplate is to look at shadows. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#look #shadows

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#best #casts #causes #certain #greatest

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#am #any #bound #climbed #day

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

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

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#because #exchange #hazardous #me #my soul

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

We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform. ↗

— Kenneth H. Cooper

#between #doubt #fitness #health #internationally

There stands the shadow of a glorious name. ↗

— Lucan

#name #shadow #stands