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"You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there."

"I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe."

"The evil components of our shadow are the part of us that we deplore, the part of us that we prefer not to admit. One must set themselves free from all inhibitions in order to initiate close encounters with their innermost monster. By standing toe-to-toe with the part of ourselves that we most detest, a person is in a position to slay their fiendish sense of self and, by doing so, undergo a soulful transformation."

"She spoke of these with animation, and heard my admiring comments with a smile of pleasure: that soon, however, vanished, and was followed by a melancholy sigh; as if in consideration of the insufficiency of all such baubles to the happiness of the human heart, and their woeful inability to supply its insatiate demands."

"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."
Explore more quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."

"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."

"Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying."

"The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!"

"None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn."

"The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way too."
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