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“When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.”

Men Mean Bigs Business Sun Shadow Casts Small Man

Author:Lin Yutang

“Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life, the things I remember, the things I turn over in my hands, are not houses, bank accounts, prizes or promotions. What I remember is love -- all love -- love of this dirt road, this sunrise, a day by the river, the stranger I met in a café. Myself, even, which is the hardest thing of all to love, because love and selfishness are not the same thing. It is easy to be selfish. It is hard to love who I am. No wonder I am surprised if you do.”

Source: Lighthousekeeping

“The other side of midnight’s hour strikes a herald thrice rung Seer, Shadow, Sun—together they come Sixteen winters hence—the light shall be eclipsed Leaving darkness to ascend beneath a sky bleeding fire”

Light Together Sides Hours Darkness Sun Fire Sky Shadow Leaving Winter Strikes Midnight Bleeding Sixteen Seers Thrice

Book:Mystic

Source: Mystic

“From "Wetness and Water" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try to put out a fire by throwing on more fire. Do not wash a wound with blood. No matter how fast you run, your shadow more than keeps up. Sometimes it's in front. Only full, overhead sun diminishes your shadow. But that shadow has been serving you. What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.”

World Trying Doe Has Beens Sometimes Matter Running Water Hurt Darkness Sun Fire Blood Fronts Shadow Wounds Boundaries Serving Bless Throwing Candle Quests Diminish Duality Overhead Wetness

Author:Rumi

“For all that I have kissed before, I have never felt anything like this. It is as if I have swallowed a tiny piece of the sun, its warmth and light reaching into every corner of my soul and chasing away the shadows. I surrender to that kiss - surrender to the strength and the courage and the sheer goodness of the man.”

Ifs Men Soul Light Felt Sun Pieces Kissing Goodness Shadow Corners Tiny Surrender My Soul Reaching Warmth Sheer Chasing

Author:R.L. LaFevers

“Especially when the October wind With frosty fingers punishes my hair, Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire And cast a shadow crab upon the land, By the sea's side, hearing the noise of birds, Hearing the raven cough in winter sticks, My busy heart who shudders as she talks Sheds the syllabic blood and drains her words.”

Heart Sides Walks Sun Fire Blood Sea Land Wind Hair Bird Shadow Sticks Fingers Winter Busy Casts Caught Hearing Noise Shed October Drains Ravens Crabs

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“It's a Little Leaguers game that major leaguers play extraordinarily well, a game that excites us throughout adulthood. The crack of the bat and the scent of the horsehide on leather bring back our own memories that have been washed away with the sweat and tears of summers long gone...even as the setting sun pushes the shadows past home plate.”

“Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?”

Ifs Men Heart Dies Hours Sun Adventure Failure Ought Travel Shadow Casts Excuse Every Man Funny Travel Inquisitive Great Adventure Continuance

Book:The pursuit of humor and other essays

Source: The pursuit of humor and other essays

“For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.”

Done Memories Sun Sweet Sorrow Shadow Clouds Storm Trials Dawn Grieving Twilight Rainbow Parting Storm Clouds Rosebuds Sweet Memories

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.”

Men Wells Has Beens Names Known Sun Strange Judging Shadow Opposites Criminals Great Men Biology Well Known Linked Complementary

Book:The selected writings of Jean Genet

Source: The selected writings of Jean Genet

“Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.”

Life Death Fall Loss Sun Dying Shadow Shining Simplicity Possession Life And Death

Book:The Verse of Hilaire Belloc

Source: The Verse of Hilaire Belloc

“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 honors.”

Inspirational Sun Greater Higher Honor Goodness Shadow Praise Rewards Casts Coveting

Author:Laozi

“The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.”

Kindness Sun Protect Shadow Casts Daisies Lingering

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Steal o'er the lake's warm breast, And the ancient silence follows The burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers, And dreams of countless Junes, Return when the lake-wind murmurs Through golden August noons.”

Long Dream Silence Sun Wind Return Thousand Summer Shadow Green Calm Ancient Warm Stealing Golden Burning Breasts Lakes June August Noon

Author:William Braithwaite

“Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.”

Water Memories Pleasure Sun Shadow Wine Sunshine Salt Making Love Remorse Saturated Salt Water

Author:Cyril Connolly

“All it has experienced, tasted, suffered: The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will pour forth each day in the song Of its rustling foliage, in the friendly Gesture of its gently swaying crown, In the delicate sweet scent of resinous Sap moistening the sleep-glued buds, And the eternal game of lights and Shadows it plays with itself, content.”

“So with the stretch of the white road before me, Shining snow crystals rainbowed by the sun, Fields that are white, stained with long, cool, blue shadows, Strong with the strength of my horse as we run. Joy in the touch of the wind and the sunlight! Joy! With the vigorous earth I am one.”

Long Running Earth Joy Strong White Sun Fields Wind Shadow Horse Blue Shining Winter Snow Sunlight Crystals Vigorous

Book:A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

Source: A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass