Storm quotes
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"We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time,those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them.By the time we've found them,we already been defeated by adversity."
"You have these 'hot towers', tropical storm clouds acting like chimneys to carry heat to the upper atmosphere."
"When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives."
"It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen."
"Maybe that’s what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go."
"Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm."
"I soon forgot storm in music."
"Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace."
"The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds."
"Sometimes when you're in the storm, it's harder and maybe when it's over, then you can look back on it."
"You only have control over the storms you are able to have peace in."
"I used to think that you could find peace and it would always be there. And there is a sense of that. But even in the worst moments, catch yourself and remember that within the storm of misfortune there is good fortune. Just get in practice with what they call in Taoism the Wu-wei; the non-action and becoming the observer of it. Just notice and stay at peace with it. I must have admit, that I still have those really disrupting moments."
"William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke."
"Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll, There's a wife brighten'd vire at the end of my road, An' her love, voe the jay o' my soul."
"Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on."
"Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast."
"That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain, And follows but for form, Will pack, when it begins to rain, And leave thee in a storm."
"Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?"
"The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards."
"Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us."
