Shadows - Sombras

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows. 
====Charles Maurice de Talleyrand


In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
====August Sander


The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
====Lao Tzu


Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
====Conrad Hall


Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
====Leo Tolstoy


Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
====Paul Cezanne


A human being is only breath and shadow.
====Sophocles


Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
====Aesop


In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
====Blaise Pascal


Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
====Friedrich Nietzsche


All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
====Buddha


Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.
====Evita Peron


To contemplate is to look at shadows.
====Victor Hugo

Friedrich Nietzsche

O que é bom é leve. Todo divino se move com pés delicados. Nietzsche

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Resistence - Resistência

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. 
====Sun Tzu


Today the majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization
==== Nelson Mandela


Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
====Andre Gide


No man should ever display his bravery unless he is prepared for battle, nor bear the marks of defiance, until he has experienced the abilities of his enemy.
==== Hitopadesa


I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
====Friedrich Nietzsche


Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
====Mark Twain


Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
====Mohandas Gandhi


Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again.
====Ulrike Meinhof


The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
====Ninon de L'Enclos


The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
====Honore de Balzac

Barra do Una - Fotografia Leonora Fink

Friedrich Nietzsche

Minha solidão não tem nada a ver com a presença ou ausência de pessoas. Detesto quem me rouba a solidão, sem em troca me oferecer verdadeiramente companhia. 


Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche

O indivíduo sempre teve que se esforçar para não se deixar ser dominado pela tribo. Se você fizer isso, frequentemente será solitário e, algumas vezes, terá medo. Mas nunca é alto o preço a pagar pelo privilégio de pertencer a si mesmo. 


Nietzsche

O bom escritor - Friedrich Nietzsche

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. 

Friedrich Nietzsche

Essência

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius

O pior pecado contra nossos semelhantes não é odiá-los, mas ser indiferente a eles, que é a essência da desumanidade. 
George Bernard Shaw 



Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the ESSENCE of knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The energy of the mind is the ESSENCE of life.
Aristotle