Chasing Rainbows Quotes

• And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Happiness, Rain

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• God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.

  Maya Angelou

  Clouds, Moments, Possibility

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 04, 2010

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• To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 22, 2014

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• Now is our time. It's our time to chase rainbows and build castles in the sky. It's our time to create a life that we love. Because someday, it will no longer be our time.

  Shawn Anderson

  Love Is, Sky, Rainbow

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• I wonder why / no one ever told me / that the rainbow / and the treasure / were both within me.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Rainbow, Treasure, Wonder

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• I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.

  Joseph McCarthy

  Waiting, Littles, Vain

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• There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

  Karen Black

  Gold, Essence Of Life, Pot

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• People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end...Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Happiness, Happy, Children

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• Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them.

  Johnny Vander Meer

  Baseball, Kids, World

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• He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Legs, Turns

  1940 Eggs, Beans and Crumpets, 'Anselm Gets His Chance'.

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• The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to himself. Perhaps you are chasing rainbows. You're after the self-confidence of the average man, when you should be after the humbleness of a warrior. The difference between the two is remarkable. Self Confidence entails knowing something for sure; humbleness entails being impeccable in one's actions and feelings.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Self Confidence, Warrior, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I still can't scrape together even a couple days of hopelessness. Future scientists will call it the Pollyanna Syndrome, and if forced to guess, I'd say that mine has been a way-long case history of chasing rainbows.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Couple, Best Effort, Optimism

  "Damned". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

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• You've got to go where the work is. My mom got a job somewhere else so I went and lived with her and then I just bounced all over going to school, chasing rainbows and all that.

  Nikki Jean

  Mom, Jobs, School

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