Wind Quotes - Page 8

• The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Soul, Sound, Body

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.80, eKitap Projesi

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• Small minds just like light winds can never create giant waves.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Light, Mind, Giants

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• I am a willow of the wilderness,
  Loving the wind that bent me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wilderness, Bent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.165, Delphi Classics

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• The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am.

  Isadora Duncan

  Prayer, Pain, Moon

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• Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspiring, Nature, Flower

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.425, Delphi Classics

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• I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

  Amy Tan

  Strength, Mother, Art

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• When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life and dry in brittle in death So the soft and supple are the companion of life While the stiff and unyielding are the companions of death An army that cannot yield will be defeated A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind Thus by Nature's own decree the hard and strong are defeated while the soft and gentle are triumphant

  Laozi

  Life, Strong, Army

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• Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.

  Amin Maalouf

  Men, Fire, Flames

  Amin Maalouf (1998). “Samarkand”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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• Love is most nearly itself
  When here and now cease to matter.
  Old men ought to be explorers
  Here or there does not matter
  We must be still and still moving
  Into another intensity
  For a further union, a deeper communion
  Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
  The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
  Of the petrel and the porpoise.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Moving, Dark

  T.S. Eliot (2016). “Cuatro cuartetos: Precedido por La roca y Asesinato en la Catedral”, p.99, LUMEN

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• it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.

  Margaret Atwood

  Doors, Because I Can, Opening

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle”, Treasure Press

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• I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Change, Mother, Daughter

  'The Cloud' (1819)

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• The dust cannot fight against the wind; the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fighting, Dust, Battle

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• Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

  Lucretius

  Air, Should

  Lucretius, Martin Ferguson Smith (2001). “On the Nature of Things”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

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• Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Would Be, Puff

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.153

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• The sea is the source of water and the source of wind; for neither would blasts of wind arise in the clouds and blow out from within them, except for the great sea, nor would the streams of rivers nor the rain-water in the sky exist but for the sea ; but the great sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.

  Xenophanes

  Rain, Ocean, Blow

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• I see a city in the desert lies
  The vanity of an ancient king
  But the city lies in broken pieces
  While the wind howls and the vultures sing

  Sting

  Kings, Lying, Vanity

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• Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim.

  Barbara Ascher

  Running, Grief, Blow

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• Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

  Satish Kumar

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

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• The fire has its flame and praises God.
  The wind blows the flame and praises God.
  In the voice we hear the word which praises God.
  And the word, when heard, praises God.
  So all of creation is a song of praise to God.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Inspirational, Song, Blow

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• A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

  Stephen Leacock

  Retirement, Autumn, Blow

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• Windy or not, a day this beautiful has to be lived. The day is bright and clear, the sky blue, and the dry air feels light. A northerly wind stirs a primal urge to move. The geese feel it, and so do I. Perhaps it is a last internal vestige from a time, long ago, when we migrated with the seasons across open plains, following the animals we pursued for food. Perhaps that is why the sight of migrating geese arrests our attention, why we feel the pull. We want to go, to travel in fresh or moody weather, taking in each newly revealed vista.

  Carl Safina

  Beautiful, Moving, Animal

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• What makes the strength of the soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whole lot of signals, it's the strength he's able to concentrate within himself, by staying centered. That Maori player was like a tree, a great indestructible oak with deep roots and a powerful radiance- everyone could feel it. And yet you also got the impression that the great oak could fly, that it would be as quick as the wind, despite, or perhaps because of, its deep roots.

  Muriel Barbery

  Powerful, Player, Roots

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• Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Book, Tree

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.366, Harvard University Press

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• Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Weather, Endurance

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.1158

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• I like to be a little more difficult to nail down that that just inside myself, but when someone's motivations, even if they wind up falling in one side or the other of the debate, when they're personal and also when they're masked by something that only the audience knows is really their motivation, that to me is just what I call entertainment.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Motivation, Fall, Nails

  Source: collider.com

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