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• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

  John Lubbock

  Inspirational, Success, Summer

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• Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Failure, Adversity

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Looks, Smooth, Made

  "A Theory of Roughness". The Edge Interview, www.edge.org. December 20, 2004.

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• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  Dale Evans

  Song, Sunny Weather, Together

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• Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Hope, Witty

  Don Marquis (2012). “Archy and Mehitabel”, p.54, Anchor

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  Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Smile, Romantic

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.809, Delphi Classics

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• Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.

  Francis Parkman

  Light, Air, Blue

  Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.29, VM eBooks

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• Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Crucible, Molecules

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• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational Life, Philosophical, Humility

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• Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you.
  Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon.

  Rumi

  Moon, Light, Black

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• I bow in reverence to the white cloud.

  Li Bai

  Nature, White, Bows

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• I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Flower, Light

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.432, Delphi Classics

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• Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

  Pythagoras

  Stars, Self Esteem, Self Worth

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• There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.

  Bob Ross

  Tree

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• Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance to believe once more than the world was beautiful and sensible, that the mad absurdities and cruelties of men were against the laws of Nature and the Universal Mind; that sooner or later violence would suffer utter defeat on this Earth. No words collected in books were more effectively convincing to me than foliage, clouds, rippling waters, rain.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Nature

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• In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Jesus, Father, Shadow

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Wise, Men, Storm

  Elbert Hubbard (2017). “The Roycroft Dictionary, Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days.”, p.52, Litres

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• We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Stupid, War, Gun

  Condoleezza Rice (2011). “No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington”, p.198, Broadway Books

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• Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Rain, Lightning

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.229, Shambhala Publications

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• I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  FaceBook post by Elizabeth Taylor from Sep 13, 2016

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• God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Fall, Heart, Rays

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jan 17, 2012

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• Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Light, Wind

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• The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something

  Rita Dove

  Minutes, Ecstasy, Feels

  Rita Dove, Earl G. Ingersoll (2003). “Conversations with Rita Dove”, p.138, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  New Horizons, Watches, North And South

  "The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell".

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• Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Suicide, Nature, Suicidal

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 37, 1799.

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