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“A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.”

Persons Shows Shadow Bigger Photograph Backgrounds Instant

Author:Tomas Transtromer

“If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.”

Ifs Persons Found Figures Shadow Originals Starting Starting Point Strangeness

Author:Paul Gauguin

“I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences methodology that integrates science (third-person view) social transformation (second-person view) and the evolution of self (first-person view) into a coherent framework of consciousness-based action research”

“As in mysterious and transcendent union the Divine takes into itself the human in the person of Jesus, and eternity is blended with time; we, trusting Him, and yielding our hearts to Him, receive into our poor lives an incorruptible seed, and for us the soul-satisfying realities that abide forever mingle with and are reached through the shadows that pass away.”

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“Sharing words with someone you have never met is like observing a shadow, without seeing the whole person; the place where my shadow touches theirs, is the place where our words meet, and it is in that place where wonderful exchanges can take place.”

Persons Whole Wonderful Seeing Mets Shadow Observing Our Words Whole Person

Author:Allison Mackie

“The beauty of the person of Christ, as represented in the Scripture, consists in things invisible unto the eyes of flesh. They are such as no hand of man can represent or shadow. It is the eye of faith alone that can see this King in his beauty. What else can contemplate on the untreated glories of his divine nature? Can the hand of man represent the union of his natures in the same person, wherein he is peculiarly amiable? What eye can discern the mutual communications of the properties of his different natures in the same person?”

Source: Christologia Or, A Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ, God and Man: With the Infinite Wisdom, Love and Power of God in the Contrivance and Constitution Thereof ...

“Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.”

Looks Persons Fear Existence Accepting Shadow Bounds

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“We can't predict all the struggles and storms in life, not even the ones just around the next corner, but as persons of faith and hope, we know beyond a shadow of any doubt that the gospel of Jesus Christ is true and the best is yet to come.”

Knows Persons Next Jesus Christ Struggle Doubt Shadow Jesus Christ Corners Storm Hope And Faith Best Is Yet To Come

Author:L. Tom Perry

“I define a good person as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their shadow - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.”

Knows Persons Evil Consciousness Broken Conscious Weakness Shadow Limitation Good And Evil Good Person

Author:John Bradshaw

“If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.”

“When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows”

People Giving Persons Emotional Victory Shadow Manage Unreasonable

Author:David Viscott

“Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow.”

Persons Shadow Deeds

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.”

Persons I Can Wisdom Reality Religion Lost Loses Justice Half Five Generations Human Nature Ethics Shadow Strategy Individuality Ideology Thirty Other Half

Author:Vicky Beeching

“Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play of shadows on a sheet? The search for entertainment? The need for a kind of drug? ..I think that what a person normally goes to the cinema for is time: for time lost or spent or not yet had. He goes there for living experience; for cinema, like no other art, widens, enhances and concentrates a person’s experience-and not only enhances it but makes it longer, significantly longer. That is the power of cinema: ‘stars’, story-lines and entertainment have nothing to do with it.”

People Thinking Needs Kind Persons Art Two Play Stories Lost Stars Hours Lines Rooms Watches Drug Shadow Entertainment Cinema Sheets

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into that shadow world produces good work, I'm all for it. But I think you have to be able to step back from the work, and say, "Look how miserable I felt. Look how beautifully I wrote about it. Now I'm going to get an iced coffee and chat with a friend." Writing should be a way out of despair.”

“An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.”

Persons Light Possibility Shadow Optimism Optimistic Optimist Pessimist Idealist

Author:Felix Adler

“I’m not sure a lot of other people would walk up to the same artwork and see the shadow on the person’s face from the hat and be like “Do you see that!” It’s about noticing things that interest you, and that definitely happens with the natural world as well.”

People World Wells Persons Happens Faces Interest Natural Walks Shadow Not Sure Hats Natural World Noticing Artwork Noticing Things

Author:Laura Owens

“Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be your own person.”

Persons Self Leader Steps Shadow Be Your Own Person

Author:Snoop Dogg

“If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.”

Ifs Humans Persons Moments Realizing Ordinary Shadow Consequence Shame Encounters Concrete Burned Discomfort Hiroshima Complicity Ordinary Person

Author:Chris Abani

“I come from a boxing background. Three generations of boxers. I personally hate to fight, but I love the science of boxing. Mind, body. So for me, shadow boxing or hitting the heavy bag is something that gets me in a centered state. It's calming for me. To me, boxing isn't about the other person. It's about me. My inner struggles. It works for me.”

Mind Persons States Body Hate Fighting Three Struggle Generations Shadow Heavy Backgrounds Boxing Bags Hitting Boxers Calming Mind Body Three Generations Inner Struggle

Author:Aleks Paunovic

“I'm not denying that in the world there's been some tremendous musical happenings, like DJ Shadow or whatever, that kind of thing. But when it goes into the weird thing where you get a remix done by a certain person because they need a brand name, that's when it becomes really discouraging.”

World Needs Kind Persons Done Certain Names Happenings Shadow Musical Brands Discouraging Djs Weird Things Remix Brand Names

Author:Paul Morley

“I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Persons Motivational Faith Peace Ability Effort Doubt Achieve Shadow Claims Average Average Person Hope And Faith

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“I am a king's daughter, And if I cared to care, The moon that has no mistress Would flutter in my hair. No one dares to cherish What I choose to crave. Never have I hungered, For that I did not have I am a kings daughter, And I grow old within The prison of my person, The shackles of my skin. And I would run away And beg from door to door, Just to see your shadow Once, and never more.”

Ifs Persons Care Running Grows Doors Hair Kings Moon Daughter Shadow Skins Prison Dare Cherish Running Away Crave Mistress Shackles

Author:Peter S. Beagle

“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words.”

World Writing Trying Years Mind Firsts Persons Turns Speak Rooms Novel Shadow Tradition Tables New World Inward

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.”

Men Mind Heart Persons Light Names Strong Break Fire Love You Tears Painting Ten Shadow Seven Forgotten Hardest Pale Strong Man Persons Love Name Of The Wind Kvothe

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.”

Persons Felt Shadow Negative Melting

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“In life, a person will come and go from many homes. We may leave a house, a town, a room, but that does not mean those places leave us. Once entered, we never entirely depart the homes we make for ourselves in the world. They follow us, like shadows, until we come upon them again, waiting for us in the mist.”

World May Mean Persons Doe Home House Waiting Rooms Shadow Towns Comes And Goes Mist Many Homes

Book:Death Watch

Source: Death Watch

“The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragile—it takes only a single moment of pure terror to tear a hole in it, like a finger through a cobweb, leaving you forever just a shadow, a half-person.”

Way Mind Humans Persons Moments Powerful Half Forever Tears Pure Shadow Fingers Leaving Terror Holes Human Mind Fragile Cobwebs

Book:Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary

Source: Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary

“If a person cast no shadow at all, he couldn't be alive. His existence became meaningless.Execrating Apophis by destroying his shadow would cut his connection to the mortal world completely. He'd never be able to rise again. I finally understood why he'd been so anxious to burn Setne's scrolls, and he was afraid of this spell. (Carter Kane)”

Ifs World Persons Able Existence Cutting Alive Understood Shadow Connections Casts Mortals Spells Destroying Meaningless Anxious Carter Carter Kane

Author:Rick Riordan

“A person's shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep shadows that endured for centuries.”

People World Persons Long Century Shadow Impact Casts Legacy Impact On The World Long Deep

Author:Rick Riordan

“A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.”

Persons Choices Differences Simple Accepting Wall Office Shadow Casts Refuse Substance Emptiness Live By Simple Truths Still Life With Woodpecker

Book:Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.”

Kind Persons Fear Dangerous Shadow

Book:A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly

“Sometimes I'd catch myself looking at my reflection in windows and wonder who I was. Where I was going. Then the image would change and it wouldn't be me, just some nebulous shadow person.”

Persons Sometimes Wonder Reflection Shadow Window

Author:Julie Anne Peters

“Professions of humility are the very cream, the very essence of pride; the really humble person wishes to be, and not to appear so. Humility is timorous, and starts at her shadow; and so delicate that if she hears her name pronounced it endangers her existence.”

Ifs Persons Names Wish Existence Humility Pride Shadow Essence Humble Profession Delicate Cream Humble Person

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.”

Persons Shows Light Shadow

Author:Carl Jung

“Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more.”

Persons Shadow Flow Misery Attachment Pool Sooner Or Later Stink Stagnant

Author:Rajneesh

“If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream-a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows-is essentially poetry.”

Ifs Love Persons Enough Dream Light Eye Together Fit Discovery Shadow Dreamer Mirages Closed Eyes Open Eyes

Book:Nights as day, days as night

Source: Nights as day, days as night

“It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think - and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.”

Thinking Love Persons Facts Lying Artist Forever Involved Photography Shadow Fixed Association Portraits Memorial Monstrous Sanctification

Book:Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: the unpublished letters of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford

Source: Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: the unpublished letters of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford