„Walk towards the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you.“
— Mary Engelbreit American illustrator 1952
„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
„Keep yourself to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.“
— Helen Keller American author and political activist 1880 - 1968
„Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.“
— Helen Keller American author and political activist 1880 - 1968
Variant: Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do.
— John Mayer guitarist and singer/songwriter 1977
Your Body Is a Wonderland
Song lyrics, Room for Squares (2001)
„Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
„Keep your eye on the goal, keep moving toward your target.“
— T. Harv Eker American writer 1954
Source: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth
„Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…“
— Louisa May Alcott, book Little Women
Source: Little Women
„Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.“
— Fausto Cercignani Italian scholar, essayist and poet 1941
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni
„You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.“
— James Thurber American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright 1894 - 1961
"The Bear Who Let It Alone", The New Yorker (29 April 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940)
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
— Napoleon I of France French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769 - 1821
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
„But what are kings, when regiment is gone,
But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
- Edward II, 5.1“
— Christopher Marlowe English dramatist, poet and translator 1564 - 1593
„Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.“
— Victor Hugo, book Les Misérables
Variant: A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Source: Les Misérables
