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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
Ralph Marston
Time
You
Wind
Looking
Nothing
Tree
Waves
Spent
Park
Limbs
Doing
Quiet
Blowing
Sitting
Candle
Just
Children
Pond
Sea
Flickering
Moment
Last
Watching
Playing
Last Time
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
Henry Beston
Great
Nature
Rain
Wind
Three
Ocean
Outer
Beach
Sound
Sounds
Wood
Elemental
If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.
Rebecca Pidgeon
You
Feathers
Gossip
Roof
Fly
Wind
Single
Every
Slice
Find
Feather
Take
Open
Know
How
How Far
Pillow
Go
Up
Want
Far
Then
Away
Travels
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.
Eartha Kitt
You
Path
Right Track
Wind
Own
Bend
Bending
Constantly
Staying
Deter
Following
Never
River
Know
Track
Go
Up
Going
Where
Anyone
Turning
Means
Your
Right
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Anger
Mind
Wind
Lamp
Out
Blows
Which
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life
Rain
Light
Matter
Sky
Wind
Fire
Earth
Sun
Gives
Thunder
Beyond
Burns
Eternity
I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.
Octavio Paz
Time
Great
Silence
Memory
Personality
Wind
Own
Think
Corner
Our
Distinctive
Ghosts
Blends
Footsteps
Noises
Around
Same
Same Time
Which
Producer
Unique
Street
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
Arthur Ashe
Best
Dark
Wind
Steady
Passage
Am
Sailing
Sails
Doing
Middle
Boat
Full
Keep
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Lie
Sometimes
Wind
Sail
Anchor
Must
Drift
Reach
Against
Port
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
John Steinbeck
Change
Men
Wind
Grass
Hidden
Dawn
Like
Perfume
Curtains
Little
In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
George Crumb
Music
Nature
Water
Insects
Wind
Sense
Birds
Broader
Must
Find
Small
Inevitably
Sounds
Rhythms
Large
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
Euripides
Wind
Somewhere
Must
Misery
Always
Blows
Human
Stop
Storm
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Roger de Rabutin
Love
Great
Wind
Fire
Small
Absence
To Love
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
William James
Sports
People
Wind
First
Enough
Out
Run
Find
Never
Most
Got
Far
Second
Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.
A. A. Milne
Book
Wind
Alice
Pleasure
More
Read
Masterpieces
Island
How
How Much
Wonderland
Children
Which
Much
Grown-Up
Treasure
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Frederick Douglass
Will
Men
Wind
Reap
Rational
Expect
Sow
Whirlwind
If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.
Vusi Mahlasela
Wisdom
Forgiveness
You
Wind
Bitter
More
Leaf
Like
Dry
Squash
Get
Blown
Blown Away
Just
Much
Away
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
E. M. Forster
Good
Daily
Nature
Sunrise
Wind
Stars
Trees
Our
Enter
Your
Lives
Daily Lives
The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.
Herbert Read
Wind
Bitter
Knows
Blowing
Artist
Sensitive
We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just... do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It's all going to work out.
John Lewis
Work
You
Courage
Walk
Wind
Down
Live
Our
Backbone
Way
Say
Out
Must
See
About
Something
Part
Fair
House
Effort
Get
Same
Going
Just
Hold
Not Fair
Little
Work Out
Right
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
Leo Buscaglia
Nature
Little Things
Wind
Down
Wildly
Run
Enthusiastic
About
Still
Leaves
Get
Against
Little
Skip
Play
Street
Things
I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.' But sure, criticism can sometimes still get to me. Some things are so malicious, they knock the wind out of you.
Melissa McCarthy
Me
You
Change
Sometimes
Thought
Criticism
Wind
Somebody
Else
Out
Some
Some Things
Never
Pick
Knock
Like
Sure
Felt
Always
Still
Malicious
Get
Different
Want
Things
Needed
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great
Relationship
Fans
Wind
Increases
Diminishes
Great Ones
Absence
Fires
Passions
Candles
Mediocre
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Sad
Art
Needs
World
Wind
Kind
Gods
Paths
Just
Being
While
Many
Creeds
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
Hugo Black
Constitution
Political
Wind
Wave
Our
Written
New
Judges
Blown
Sands
Successive
Washed
Each
Away
Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!
Richard Bach
Love
Music
Musicians
World
Wind
Dancers
Flying
Melodies
Magic
About
Part
Feel
Steps
Principle
Still
Been
Years
Scores
Same
Just
Being
Anyone
Loves
Flight
Deeply
Flow
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