What shadows we are, what shadows we pursue!

A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight, and walks with you in the shadows

“When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream

My son and his daughter...This picture inspired me to do this post about shadows♥

“An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.”