Lao Tzu

The sage is like water.
Water is good, nourishes all things,
and does not compete with them.
It dwells in humble places that others disdain,
hence it is close to the Tao.
In his dwelling, the sage loves the earth.
In his mind, he loves what is profound.
In his associations, he is kind and gentle.
In his speech, he is sincere.
In his ruling, he is just.
In business, he is proficient.
In his action, he is timely.
Because he does not compete,
he does not find fault in others.

— Lao Tzu (604-517 BC)
Tao Te Ching, VIII

Alone

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
.................................. Cyrano de Bergerac

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
...............................Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

..............................Henry David Thoreau

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
....................................Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
..................................Blaise Pascal

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
.............................Jean-Paul Sartre

To lead people walk behind them.
....................Lao Tzu

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
.........................Plato

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
.........................Friedrich Nietzsche

Direction

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... 
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. 
......................Albert Einstein


Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. 
Live the life you have imagined. 
............................Henry David Thoreau


If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. 
.................................Lao Tzu


The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. 
...............................Plato


Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. 
....................Antoine de Saint-Exupery


The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction. 
..............................Nicolaus Copernicus

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