“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson 727
American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882Related quotes
“The most dangerous kind of person… is one who is afraid of his own shadow.”
Source: A Scanner Darkly
“Walk towards the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you.”
“Keep yourself to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”
“I've been sleeping through my life
Now I'm waking up
And I want to stand in the sunshine”
Sunshine
In Exile Deo (2004)
Context: I've been sleeping through my life
Now I'm waking up
And I want to stand in the sunshine
I have never been ecstatic
Had a flower but it never bloomed
In the darkness of my wasted youth
It was hiding in the shadows
Learning to become invisible
Uncover me
“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.
Misattributed
“But what are kings, when regiment is gone,
But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
- Edward II, 5.1”