Shadow Quotes

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

Mind, Thoughts, Joy

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln

Character, Real, Reputation

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare

Life, Nothing, Idiot

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everything, Cast

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch

Change, Friend, Changes

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

Sunshine, Cannot, Keep

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Death, Through

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis

Live, Thinking, Living

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William Shakespeare

Dream, Ambitious, Substance

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine

Life, Friendship, Evening

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David Thoreau

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao Tzu

Truth, Lost, Beginning

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao Tzu

Cannot, Sun, Less

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Voltaire

Father, Child, Sit

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Sunshine, Friends, Leaving

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Thomas Paine

Men, Thinking, Liberty

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung

Love, Power, Rules

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry, Dance, Asking

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo

Work, Art, True

Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.
Amy Grant

Real, Everything, Black

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
William Blake

Real, Universe, Eternal

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Leo Tolstoy

Death, Two, Six

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

Long, Succeed, Anyone

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
Abdul Kalam

Her, Walk, India

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
Ambrose Bierce

Truth, Doubt, Her

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.
Gary Busey

Dark, Kids, Room

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
Christopher Morley

Beauty, Pain, Lonely

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue, Glory, Follows

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Time, Behind, Leaves

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