Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We are but shadows: we are, not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The shadow is a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it in some form. It cannot be… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be… — Peter Bayne Copy Share Image
How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The world is always somewhat vicious. I take that as a given, but at various times in various circumstances that fact will… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Erasmus was the light of his century; others were its strength: he lighted the way; others knew how to walk on it… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and… — Maeve Brennan Copy Share Image
There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection… — Christmas Evans Copy Share Image
“At the base of the immense pillar, tiny Babylon was in shadow. Then the darkness climbed the tower, like a canopy unfurling… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-- it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Somewhere a bicycle bell rings. Somewhere else there's a war on. Somewhere else people turn to shadows and powder in an instant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
Calmly spinning, I scan as far away as I can see. The last rays of the day's sun warm my back and… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
About shadows: do we see shadows? Loads of people don't. A camera will notice a shadow, but how many people have got… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father was my hero, both for the physical things he could do and for the values he taught me, about honesty… — Jack Hemingway Copy Share Image
Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
God is Infinite and His Shadow is also infinite. The Shadow of God is the Infinite Space that accommodates the infinite Gross… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
“One day, she explained, he'd pass by the window and, given the correct lighting, moment, and identical gesture, his shadow would match,… — Philip Graham Copy Share Image
I hope you can understand one thing, I will like you till the day I die. Don't they say there's no reasons… — Lee Dong-gun Copy Share Image
I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent,… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
“Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things to do, when the ghost light is on and it's just an empty stage - I'll let… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image