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“Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.”

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Book:Walt Disney: Conversations

Source: Walt Disney: Conversations

“Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.”

Ifs Life Might Happiness Dark Shadow Sunshine Life Happiness Gloomy

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.”

Life Moments Life Is Doors Movement Arms Shadow Seasons Edges Legs Autumn Delicate Rapids Closing Autumn Days Snowfall Closing Doors

Author:Alan Lightman

“Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.”

Life Stills Play Seems Faces Night Rooms Shadow Garden Tricks Gravel New Faces

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.”

Life Self Achieve Behavior Shadow Profound Rewards Shadow Work

Book:Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life

Source: Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life

“Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you can open up to the arrival of a new archetype, the birth of a new cycle of life. In the shadow, then, lies our myth and our fate.”

Life Stories Lying Process Consciousness Fate Birth Shadow Complexes Myth Unconscious Cycles Arrivals Archetype Solidity Cycle Of Life

Book:Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life

Source: Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life

“And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and out of the shadow their eyes implore us. That is what all of us historical researchers believe. And we love truth.”

Love Life Giving Believe Eye Past Shadow Historical Definitions All Time Love Life One Time Researchers Truth Love

Book:All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

“I thank to all the shadows and all the darknesses of my life; it is owing to them that I now love the light much more than ever before!”

Love Life Light Darkness Shadow Love Life Owing

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In life, everything awaits in the shadows for the suitable time to come out! All waits silently in the nooks! Observe the shadows and the nooks to guess what will happen!”

Life Happens Waiting Shadow Suitable

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“On twitter, you may have a zero follower; but in real life, this is not possible because everyone has a shadow!”

Life May Real Shadow Real Life Zero Followers

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.”

Life Littles Life Is Shadow Forgotten Passing Passings Enlightened Fleeting

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi