“Walk towards the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you.”
Mary Engelbreit (1952) American illustrator
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
This has become attributed to both Walt Whitman and Helen Keller, but has not been found in either of their published works, and variations of the quote are listed as a proverb commonly used in both the US and Canada in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1992), edited by Wolfgang Mieder, Kelsie B. Harder and Stewart A. Kingsbury.
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American poet, essayist and journalist 1819–1892Related quotes
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