A Quote by Jon Foreman

The shadow proves the sunshine.

Jon Foreman

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Proves Shadow Sunshine

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Jon Foreman
American - Singer
Born: October 22, 1976

Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine?

Rumi

Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old— This knight so bold— And o’er his heart a shadow— Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow— ‘Shadow,’ said he, ‘Where can it be— This land of Eldorado?’ ‘Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,’ The shade replied,— ‘If you seek for Eldorado!

Edgar Allan Poe

All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

Billy Graham

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Helen Keller

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Tryon Edwards

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

Alexander Pope

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.

Sylvia Plath

Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind.

Charles W. Field

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

E. M. Forster

I know I live in the shadow of the greatest drummer in the world, so it's nice to have a bit of sunshine now and again.

Jason Bonham

... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine.

Albion Fellows Bacon

When we cannot see the sunshine of God's face, it is blessed to cower down beneath the shadow of his wings.

Charles Spurgeon

You are my sunshine my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away.