John Muir
Naturalist, Writer
"As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing."
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Wind
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Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever."
Omar Khayyam
Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer
"I came like Water, and like Wind I go."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty."
Ramakrishna
Spiritual Leader
"The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail."
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"And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind."
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"I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash . . . you add a longer tail . . . you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly."
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"I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made the winds tremble. I want that love that roared like thunder. I want that love that will raise the dead. I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy. I want that love that is the silence of eternity."
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"You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down."
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"And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear."
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"I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds."
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"When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery."
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"We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds."
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"The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face."
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"The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails."
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"Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto."
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"As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky."
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"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
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"Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees."
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"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
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"A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort."
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"Do not leave me, hide in my heart like a secret, wind around my head like a turban. "I come and go as I please," you say, "swift as a heartbeat." You can tease me as much as you like but never leave me."
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"Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees"
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"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."
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"Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that's horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions. Without research, without background, without understanding, it's nothing. It's just bibble-babble. It's like a fart in a wind tunnel, folks."
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