A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
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If shadows were caused by the interplay between light and Life, a child's was still forming. An adult's was inextricably bound to his body, but a child had a tenuous relationship to his own permanence, and thus, his own shadow.
Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.
In every life, there have to be some shadows. Look at me. My life has been filled with sunshine. A beautiful and caring wife. Five healthy children. I got to do what I loved. How many people are that lucky?
The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
If you look toward the sunshine, you will never see the shadows.
When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.
You choose to shine with the light of your own divinity, or you hide it with the shadows you create in your mind. You must choose where to live -in the light or the shadows. The most powerful tool you have is your power of choice.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary,
And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.
Love is sunshine, hate is shadow,
Life is checkered shade and sunshine.
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been ecstatic Had a flower but it never bloomed In the darkness of my wasted youth It was hiding in the shadows Learning to become invisible Uncover me
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