Wind Quotes

• Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Marriage, Invisibility

  Twitter post from May 05, 2012

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• If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Flood, Ifs

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Islands in the Stream: A Novel”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

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• And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Relationship, Marriage, Dance

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• When anyone hurts us, my wife and I sit in our Japanese sand garden and drink iced tea. There are five stone in the garden - for sky, wind, fire, water, and earth. We sit and think of five of the nicest things we can about the person who hurt us. If he hurts us a second time, we do the same thing. The third time, we light a candle, and he is, for us, dead.

  Red Skelton

  Hurt, Garden, Thinking

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• The winter passes and the warm winds of May made me long to wander again. The whistling of a locomotive on a still night had a lure, unexplainable, yet strong, like the light which leads a moth to destruction.

  Jim Tully

  Strong, Winter, Night

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• When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.

  Evel Knievel

  Hair, Wind Blowing, Feelings

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• Happiness comes the way the wind blows.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Blow, Way

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• And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.58, Lulu.com

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• Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Fire

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• May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.

  George Jung

  Stars, Blow, Destiny

  "Fictional character: George Jung". "Blow", 2001.

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• The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies.

  William C. Bryant

  Clouds, Sky, Rushing

  William Cullen Bryant, “March”

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• The wind likes making jokes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Likes, Jokes

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• Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line, 'How many years can a people exist, before they're allowed to be free?' in a prison yard for political prisoners in El Salvador; if you have sung it to a group of union organizers, who have all been in jail, in South Korea; if you've sung to Jews in the Soviet Union who have been refused exit visas; if you've sung it with Bishop Tutu protesting apartheid, the song breathes, it lives, it has a contemporary currency.

  Mary Travers

  Song, Jail, Korea

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• Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.

  George Takei

  Home, Smell, Knows

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• Follow your heart wherever it takes you. Nobody knows where the wind blows. No one can say.

  Mario Frangoulis

  Heart, Blow, Nobody Knows

  Song: Follow Your Heart, Album: Follow Your Heart

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• When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

  Joan Didion

  Stars, Clouds, Air

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.157, Zola Books

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• Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the trees.

  John Keats

  Blow, Tree, Legends

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.422, Delphi Classics

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  The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Heaven, Soul, Trouble

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.268

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• Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?

  Saint Augustine

  Errors, Light, Tree

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• May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The only way to see the path in the wind is to become the wind itself.

  Leza Lowitz

  Way, Path

  Leza Lowitz, Shogo Oketani (2013). “Jet Black and the Ninja Wind”, p.69, Tuttle Publishing

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• You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Trying, Walks

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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