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“Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.”

Joy Path Wind Quiet

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.”

Water Sun Wind Quiet Shore

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

“Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles”

Sea Wind Quiet Beach Islands Lightning Sail Shattered Ripped

Book:The Scorpio Illusion

Source: The Scorpio Illusion

“If a tiny spark of God's love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out.... Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter.... Do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself.”

Ifs Giving May Inspiration Faith Left Wind Quiet Christian Inspirational Tiny Useless Sparks Within You God's Love Chatter

Author:Carlo Borromeo

“My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore . . . hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of everything. Sitting under an almond tree, with the leaf spread over me like an umbrella.”

Dream Tree Wind Quiet Sitting Tragedy Spread Hearing Spots Leafs Umbrella Almonds Jamaicans Seashore

Book:My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn

Source: My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn

“Surely as a man may say of a rock--nothing more quiet, because it is never stirred; and yet nothing more unquiet, because it is ever assaulted--so we may say of the church--nothing more peaceable, because it is established upon a rock; and yet nothing more unpeaceable, because that rock is in the midst of seas, winds, enemies, and persecutions.”

Men May Church Enemy Sea Rocks Wind Quiet Midst Persecution

Book:An Explication of the Hundred and Tenth Psalm: Wherein the Several Heads of Christian Religion Therein Contained, Touching the Exaltation of Christ, the Sceptre of His Kingdom, the Character of His Subjects, His Priesthood, Victories, Sufferings, and Resurrection, are Explained and Applied

Source: An Explication of the Hundred and Tenth Psalm: Wherein the Several Heads of Christian Religion Therein Contained, Touching the Exaltation of Christ, the Sceptre of His Kingdom, the Character of His Subjects, His Priesthood, Victories, Sufferings, and Resurrection, are Explained and Applied

“If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Heart Spirit Song Wind Quiet Longing Hearing Lifts Kindred Kindred Spirit

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind; and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth to either part, be said to keep a steady course? Resolution is the only mother of security.”

Mind Said Mother Courses Security Wind Quiet Wave Contrary Resolution Steady Beaten Vessel Tranquillity Steadiness

Book:Works

Source: Works

“November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.”

Different Easy Sound Born Imagine Air Wind Quiet Conquer Caves November

Author:Gladys Taber

“I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close.”

Source: The Pickwick Papers

“The experience of playing music at a young age really opens up one's mind to different melody in life itself, literally - like, when you've even played a recorder, or whatever, it becomes a lot easier to hear the beauty in a bird's song, or the quiet tune in a gentle rustle of the wind.”

Mind Different Age Young Song Wind Easier Quiet Bird Gentle Tunes Melody Young Age Playing Music Recorders

Author:Dave Smalley

“We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.”

Light Wind Quiet Mountain Shadow Yellow Stirring Trunks Aspens

Author:Ansel Adams

“America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.”

People Ifs Bigs Eye America Literature Sound White Stupid Wind Quiet Fortunate Complacency Hurricanes Protestants Serene

Author:Norman Mailer

“He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.”

Literature Wind Quiet Conversation Wings Silent Shoulders Opposition Thresh

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.”

Earth Imagine Sky Wind Quiet Rounds Breathing Grass Bells Slumber Benign Moths Hares Fluttering Sleepers

Author:Emily Bronte

“The idea for Maximum Ride come from the earlier books of mine called When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which also feature a character named Max who escapes from a quiet despicable school. Most of the similarities end there. Max and the other kids in Maximum Ride are not the same Max and kids featured in those two books. nor do Frannie and Kit play any part in Maximum Ride. I hope you enjoy the ride anyways.”

Two Book Ideas Ends Play Character Kids School House Enjoy Mines Wind Quiet Blow Features Lakes Maximum Max Similarity Despicable Maximum Ride

Author:James Patterson

“They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.”

Fall Hours Tree Sky Wind Quiet Bird Towns Hot Breaths Clouds Squares Earthquakes Lunchtime Portents

Book:Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold

Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold

“Thou art the Lord who slept upon the pillow, Thou art the Lord who soothed the furious sea, What matters beating wind and tossing billow If only we are in the boat with Thee? Hold us quiet through the age-long minute While Thou art silent and the wind is shrill : Can the boat sink while Thou, dear Lord, are in it; Can the heart faint that waiteth on Thy will?”

Ifs Heart Long Art Matter Age Lord Sea Minutes Wind Quiet Silent Dear Boat Thee What Matters Pillow Furious Dear Lord

Author:Amy Carmichael

“I couldn't meet his gaze. I stared at the table just behind him--the mess of cards on it, the lantern giving off its quiet glow. "When you gave me your shirt to wear that night, I could feel you. I could feel your essence." The world went still. We were standing only inches from each other, not touching. Outside, I could hear the faint murmur of the wind blowing through the trees. "What did it feel like?" he asked in a low voice. "Like...coming home," I admitted.”

World Giving Feels Stills Home Night Voice Behinds Tree Wind Quiet Lows Standing Essence Tables Cards Mess Shirts Coming Home Touching Inches Lanterns Wind Blowing

Author:L.A. Weatherly

“It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass, chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city. At all hours it was necessary to keep a lamp lighted, and Mrs. Miller lost track of the days: Friday was no different from Saturday and on Sunday she went to the grocery: closed, of course.”

Source: Trilogy; an experiment in multimedia

“Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me”

Long Eye Wind Quiet Lays Blow Grass Long Grass

Book:The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

“I let my head fall forward into his shoulder, breathing in his scent. "Now what do we do?" He's quiet for a while and I finally lean back to look him in the eyes. He appears conflicted by something and then he sets me down on the ground, lacing his fingers through mine. "Should we see where the wind takes us?" he asks. I stare at my hand in his and then look up at him. "That sounds good to me.”

Should Looks Hands Eye Fall Asks Sound Mines Wind Quiet Fingers Shoulders Breathing Staring Look Up Scent Callie And Kayden

Book:The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden

Source: The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden

“Soft you day, be velvet soft, My true love approaches, Look you bright, you dusty sun, Array your golden coaches. Soft you wind, be soft as silk My true love is speaking. Hold you birds, your silver throats, His golden voice I'm seeking. Come you death, in haste, do come My shroud of black be weaving, Quiet my heart, be deathly quiet, My true love is leaving.”

Looks Heart Black Voice Love Is Sun Wind My Heart Quiet Approach Bird Leaving Seeking Coaches Golden Silver Throat Haste Silk Velvet True Love Is Weaving Shrouds My True Love

Book:The Complete Poetry

Source: The Complete Poetry