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• If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?

  Bodhidharma

  Nature, Mind, Doctrine

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.35, Macmillan

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• My slender waist and thighs are exhausted and weak from a night of cloud dancing.

  Huang E

  Night, Dancing, Erotic

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• The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The chimney shudders to the blast.

  Robert Bridges

  Moon, Wind, House

  Robert Seymour Bridges, “Low Barometer”

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• If we did not have the adorable Eucharist here below, Jesus our God-with-us, this earth would be much too sad, this life too hard, and time too long. We must be grateful to the divine goodness for having left us this hidden Jesus, this pillar of cloud and fire in this desert

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Grateful, Fire

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• I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds, 14 people showed up, it was overcast.

  Jay London

  People, Casting, Auditions

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• The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?

  Ethel Smyth

  Indulge In, Personality, Style

  Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

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• Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short.

  Iimani David

  Beautiful, Life Is Short, Years

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• Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the clouds. The University of Cincinnati is really a possibility of hope; it is a rainbow.

  Maya Angelou

  Rainbow, Want, Possibility

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• Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Grandmother, Rainbow

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• I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dark, Storm, Forests

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.13

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• If but one message, I may leave behind, One single word of courage for my kind, It would be this – Oh, brother, sister, friend, Whatever life may bring – what God may send, No matter whether clouds life soon or late-- Take heart and wait!

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Patience, Brother, Heart

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• We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.

  Alexander Smith

  Lonely, Sweet, Sea

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• Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Art, Ocean

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• But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.

  William Wordsworth

  Lying, Home, Heaven

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• It's not going to be that hard to be in Heaven, or the Heavenly City or the Millennium, but you're going to have something to do and something to keep you busy, and you'd be unhappy if you didn't. Wouldn't it be ridiculous after being so busy here if you wound up in Heaven with nothing to do but sit on a cloud playing a harp for a thousand years?-Much less all eternity! I think you'd really get bored.

  David Berg

  Thinking, Years, Cities

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• Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.

  Jean Cocteau

  Aquariums, Water, House

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• Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving light, dying.

  Sara Teasdale

  Moon, Light, Giving

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.

  Homer

  Wind, White, Foam

  Homer (1818). “The Iliad of Homer. Translated by A. Pope. A new edition. Adorned with plates”, p.342

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• How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven.

  Robert Southey

  Beautiful, Night, Air

  Robert Southey (1829). “Poetical works”, p.89

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• The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies.

  Bryan Procter

  Lying, Ocean, Sea

  Bryan Waller Procter, “The Sea”

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• Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air.

  George Crabbe

  Air, Sky, Sight

  George Crabbe, Adolphus William Ward (2014). “Poems”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.

  Mario Andretti

  Failure, Black, Losing

  "Super Speedway". Documentary, Action, Sport, 1997.

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• Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.

  John B. Tabb

  Pain, Heart, Silence

  John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

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• A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, Tree, Grace

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jan 24, 2017

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• When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Lying, Light, Dust

  'Lines: When the lamp'

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