Light And Shadow Quotes

• All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Light, Shadow, Life Is

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.38, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

  Junichiro Tanizaki

  Beauty, Dark, Light

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• Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Dark

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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  Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  Walt Whitman, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Walt Whitman Quotes... Vol. 20: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Walt Whitman”

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• Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Light, Opposites

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• The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

  Gregory Maguire

  Eye, Light, Shadow

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Life is a mixture of light and shadow, calm and storm, and it's all good.

  Susan W. Krebs

  Life, Light, Shadow

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• There is strong shadow where there is much light.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strong, Light, Shadow

  "Goetz of Berlichingen, with the iron hand". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Act I, 1773.

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• Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Light

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• All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

  Billy Graham

  Art, Sunshine, Happy Life

  Billy Graham (2004). “The Enduring Classics of Billy Graham”, p.97, Thomas Nelson

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• Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the same time. Within everyone there is light and shadow, good and evil, love and hate. In order to be truthful, you must embrace your total being. A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses is not flawed, but complete.

  Rumi

  Hate, Mean, Reality

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• Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Inspirational, Hope, Nature

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• Remember, light and shadow never stand still.

  Benjamin West

  Light, Shadow, Remember

  Benjamin West, Allen Staley, Baltimore Museum of Art (1989). “Benjamin West, American painter at the English Court: June 4-August 20, 1989”

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• Thus shadow owes its birth to light.

  John Gay

  Light, Shadow, Birth

  John Gay, O. F. Owen (1857). “The fables of John Gay illustrated”, p.96

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• A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Happiness, Summer

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• Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.

  Rumi

  Light, Moments, Ineffable

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Meaning Of Love”

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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.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Parenting, Light

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

  Joseph Joubert

  Light, Shadow, Made

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• Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Light, Two

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• One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

  Carl Jung

  Love Life, Suicidal, Knowledge

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies”

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• In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

  Blaise Pascal

  Life, Faith, Christian

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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• In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.

  Shakti Gawain

  Light, Order, Shining

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.43, Mango Media Inc.

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• Essentially, in photography, I think on two levels: one emotional and the other technical. The emotional impact has to do with looking for something dramatic happening in the photograph, something that reaches out and touches somebody in some way. And the technical is having to do with composition and framing - light and dark, light and shadow.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Photography, Dark, Emotional

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• Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

  Edward Abbey

  Photography, Jobs, Light

  Edward Abbey (1954). “Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader”, E P Dutton

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