"Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year."
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"O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?"
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"And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire? I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you." The wind stirred the leaves of the chestnut trees nearby, and the scents of late summer rose up rich around us; pine and grass and strawberries, sun-warmed stone and cool water, and the sharp, musky smell of his body next to mine. "Nothing is lost, Sassenach; only changed." "That's the first law of thermodynamics," I said, wiping my nose. "No," he said. "That's faith."
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"The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great deal. Why not go to the sea directly?"
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"We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams."
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"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."
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"Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly."
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"Time is a keyhole.... We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do--the wind that blows through the keyhole--is the breath of all the living universe."
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"My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. “Hold tight,” I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to."
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"The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the kite soars a little higher; sometimes the wind is too rough and we have to lower it a little, and sometimes it gets caught among the tree branches; but to reach the upper strata of pure bliss-ah, perhaps never."
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"And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within..."
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"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?"
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"We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it."
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"With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow."
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"Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise."
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"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."
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"Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that’s a blessing."
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"In spite of Virtue and the Muse, Nemesis will have her dues, And all our struggles and our toils Tighter wind the giant coils."
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"A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down."
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"May you have a strong foundation when the winds of change shift...and may you be forever young."
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