"They sicken of the calm who know the storm."
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"One always imagines that the days that change one’s life must be marked with something extraordinary in nature—storms and lightning, darkness at noon, and so on. In truth they are indistinguishable from any other, which is one reason we feel mocked, as if the world is telling us we are inconsequential."
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"No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm."
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"I must return to the mountains-to Yosemite. I am told that the winter storms there will not be easily borne, but I am bewitched, enchanted, and tomorrow I must start for the great temple to listen to the winter songs and sermons preached and sung only there."
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"Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?"
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"I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song."
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"Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm."
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"We meet again, at the turn of the tide. A great storm is coming, but the tide has turned."
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"Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm."
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"It is the stillest words that bring the storm."
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"The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill."
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"A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary."
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"They tire of quiet, that have known the storm"
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"The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm."
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"The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events have their own Horsemen. For example, the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold are Sniffles, Chesty, Nostril, and Lack of Tissues; the Four Horsemen whose appearance foreshadows any public holiday are Storm, Gales, Sleet, and Contra-flow."
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"We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry."
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"The storm: I close my eyes and, standing in it, try to make it mine."
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"Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms."
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"If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.(page 10)"
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"You have authority over every storm you can sleep in"
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