Shadow Quotes

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What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the end of dependence, the step… — John Mortimer
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart… — Dean Koontz
I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come… — Carl Sandburg
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. — Socrates
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. — Gautama Buddha
What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it… — Michel Foucault
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people… — Gautama Buddha
Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the… — Gautama Buddha
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. — Gautama Buddha
And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then… — Plato
... Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for you are with me...Surely goodness and love… — Moses
Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow… — Gautama Buddha
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of… — Gautama Buddha
Even one hair has a shadow. — Publilius Syrus
Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the… — Gautama Buddha
This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning. — Gautama Buddha
Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being. — Dale E. Turner
. . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large part religious and… — Catherine L. Albanese
The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

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