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“Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters. If your mind has become one with nirvana, you will remain happy at all times.”

Ifs Mind Sometimes Happiness Fall Masters Buddhism Rain Unhappy All Time Tragic Enlightened

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the end of the blacktop road that cut through twenty miles of thick, almost impenetrable scrub oak and pine and stopped at the front gate of Angola penitentiary.”

Ends Light Fall Cutting Sky Fronts Color Rain Twenties Miles Evening Gates Thick Torn Purple Oaks Plums Evening Sky Angola

Author:James Lee

“My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.”

Source: A Boy's Will

“Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.”

Littles Earth Fall Poor Sun Wind Rain Wander Violet Dew Sun Rise

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.”

Men Long Fall Animal Tree He Man Flower Solitude Speech Understood Rain Tongue Ease Perceive Rejoice Herbs Drought Shrubs

Book:The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc

Source: The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc

“I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so full of marvels. Here's an example -- rain, the shape of rain. I was minding my own business, working on my book, looking out the window, and it was raining and I was noticing that the raindrops were falling in that classic round-looking way, and I thought, 'I wonder if raindrops really are round?' So I started researching it a little, and I discovered that raindrops change shape 300 times a second.”

“It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.”

Night Fall Blood Rain Fallen Gothic

Book:The Tell-Tale Heart: And Other Stories - Purloined Letter, Descent into the Maelström, Von Kempelen and His Discovery, Mesmeric Revelation, Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Black Cat, Fall of the House of Usher, Masque of the Red Death and Many More

Source: The Tell-Tale Heart: And Other Stories - Purloined Letter, Descent into the Maelström, Von Kempelen and His Discovery, Mesmeric Revelation, Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Black Cat, Fall of the House of Usher, Masque of the Red Death and Many More

“As the palm-tree standeth so straight and so tall, The more the hail beats, and the more the rains fall.”

Fall Tree Beats Rain Tall Palms Hail Palm Trees

Author:Simon Dach

“When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.”

Suffering Fall Heard Crime Cry Summer Rain Invisible Unendurable

Book:Poems, 1913-1956

Source: Poems, 1913-1956

“Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam ... and after a while they will fall to dust and rain; or else we will tear them down with impatient hands; and hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.”

Hands Earth Fall Rocks Tears Rain Dust Towers Impatient Gleam

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.”

I Can Joy Fall Water Grace Share Movement Rain Flow Tables Blessed Paradise Cycles Bless

Author:Ann Voskamp

“The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.”

Fall Hurt Rain Wounds Scar

Book:Poems, 1913-1956

Source: Poems, 1913-1956

“I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.”

Believe Pain Faith Fall Loss Doubt Greater Trouble Sorrow Gains Rain Crosses Strive Height Bees Anguish Swarms Hives

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.”

Fall Battle Rain Extraordinary Total War Great Battle

Book:Plutarch's Lives

Source: Plutarch's Lives

“Now I love to feel that warm southern rain, Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing. And to see it fall on your simple country dress It's like heaven to me I must confess.”

Feels Country Fall Heaven Simple Rain Dresses Warm Southern Sweetest

Author:Ben Harper

“The more we study mind and matter scientifically the more we see that all things follow a natural sequence, a sequence as liable to work for our disadvantage as for our advantage. It flows like the water of a river, it falls like rain, it is as impartial as the sea. It is as innocent of malice as it is of compassion.”

Source: Llewelyn Powys: A Selection from His Writings

“The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.”

Giving Christian Fall Church Atheism Rain Miracle Positive Atheism Monsters Impression Christian Church Clovers

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures

“You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.”

“What happiness it is to listen to rain at night; joyful relief, ease; a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are mingled together in the sound of the fast-falling rain. God, looking down upon the rainy earth, sees how faint are these lights shining in little windows, - how easily put out.”

Littles Light Earth Together Night Fall Sound Rain Window Shining Rounds Ease Relief Joyful Tenderness Rainy Brooding Looking Down Rain At Night

Author:Katherine Mansfield

“The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush; The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush; All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.”

Fall Sea Rain Rounds Edges Woods Sunset Farmers Ashes Brushes Leafs Purple Creeps Cautious Ripple Swamps Hush Maple

Book:The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations

Source: The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations

“If there be one righteous person, the rain falls for his sake.”

Ifs Persons Fall Rain Sake Righteous

Author:Gautama Buddha

“We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.”

Fall Grief Rain Silent Calm Snow Bitter Loud

Book:On the Heights

Source: On the Heights

“Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.”

Suffering Fall Simple Growing Acceptance Rain Eternity Forgotten Corn

Book:Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

“Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.”

Long Night Fall Walks Wind Cold Return Rain Mark Grey November Oaks Bronze Cold Night

Author:Gladys Taber

“Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.”

Fall Rain Suspicion Unjust

Book:Sight Unseen/The Confession

Source: Sight Unseen/The Confession

“Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.”

Earth Beautiful Remember Fall Quality Bears Rain Bosoms Fertility

Author:George Henry Lewes

“The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it would each root's lost strength repair.”

Ifs Fall Lost Sun Fields Waste Rain Roots Branches Anxious Haste

Book:Jones Very: The Complete Poems

Source: Jones Very: The Complete Poems

“An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.”

Trying Book Fall Rain Average Eight Miles Autumn Temper Dusk

Book:The Gambler: A Novel

Source: The Gambler: A Novel

“a heart may be lifted up and cast down in the same moment, as sometimes sunshine comes while rain is falling and builds upward in the sky tall reaches of misty, unlikely beauty.”

Heart May Sometimes Moments Fall Sky Rain Casts Sunshine Tall Unlikely Misty Ambivalence

Book:Lamb in His Bosom

Source: Lamb in His Bosom

“Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.”

Fall Sea Land Rain Storm Driven Gale Caspian Sea

Author:Horace

“We have not only a Hindu prayer being offered in the Senate, we have a Muslim member of the House of Representatives now, Keith Ellison from Minnesota. Those are changes -- and they are not what was envisioned by the Founding Fathers. You know, the Lord can cause the rain to fall on the just and the unjust alike.”

Knows Fall Father House Causes Prayer Lord Members Rain Senate Representatives Unjust Founding Minnesota Keith House Of Representatives

Author:Bill Sali

“That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.”

Earth Fall Fields Rain Ruins Moderation

Author:St. Jerome

“For where'er the sun does shine, And where'er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall.”

Mind Doe Fall Hope Poverty Sun Rain Shining Hunger Babe

Book:Complete writings: with variant readings

Source: Complete writings: with variant readings

“I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children, And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.”

Children Hard Hands Young Fall Saws Broken Thousand Ten Gun Rain Tongue Young Children Talkers Portents

Author:Bob Dylan

“How can you tell drops not to fall when rain exists.... How can you tell leaves not to fall when wind exist.... And how can you tell me not to fall in love when you exist...”

Love Fall Wind Rain Falling In Love

Author:Vikram

“Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.”

Fall Teaching Rain Plant Grass Showers Dew

Author:Moses

“If you are a good student of life, wisdom becomes your rain, falling heavily on your mind!”

Ifs Life Mind Fall Students Rain Life Wisdom Good Students Rain Falling

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Just a little rain falling all around The grass lifts its head to the heavenly sound Just a little rain, just a little rain What have they done to the rain? Just a little boy standing in the rain The gentle rain that falls for years And the grass is gone and the boy disappears And the rain keeps falling like helpless tears And what have they done to the rain? Just a little breeze out of the sky The leaves nod their heads as the breeze blows by Just a little breeze with some smoke in its eye And what have they done to the rain?”

“There must be a cloud in my head, rain keeps falling from my eyes”

Eye Fall Rain Clouds

Author:Dee Clark

“Stories have a tendency to seep across the shining membrane walls separating the universes. They whisper and flutter like the feathers of birds, from island to mainland and back again. They fall into dreams like rain.”

Stories Dream Fall Universe Wall Bird Rain Shining Tendencies Islands Feathers Back Again Separating Membranes

Book:Iron Hearted Violet

Source: Iron Hearted Violet

“I also love fall, when it starts to rain, or even just before the rain - that is the most inspiring thing.”

Fall Rain Falling In Love Most Inspiring

Author:Brett Dennen

“The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.”

Real Might Fall Break Tree Rain Chains Compare Real Friends Rust

Book:History of the Colonization of the United States

Source: History of the Colonization of the United States

“Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls in a strong love for the abolishment of separateness. It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities within the two spirits. It is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance, and whose ending is Eternity. It is the pure rain that falls from an unblemished sky to fructify and bless the fields of divine Nature.”

“The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one who, running out of the rain, falls into the river.”

People World States Running Fall Rain Rivers Chiefs Matrimony Inconvenience

Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.”

Certain Fall Rain Command Without God

Author:John Calvin

“A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born!”

May Happens Beautiful Fall Water Born Pure Rain Dirty Mud Lilies Ponds Water Lily

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In times that are dark and God seems far [away], I look for him in small ways - the innocent laughter of a child on an airplane, the way the rain falls down through tree branches, the aroma of honeysuckle as I ride my bike down the Natchez Trace, and through the love of friends who have carried me through the darkest times of my life.”

Way Looks Children Seems Fall Dark Tree Laughter Rain Innocent Branches Airplane Far Away Bike Falling Down Time Of My Life Aroma Tree Branches Darkest Times

Author:Anne Marie Miller

“I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.””

Firsts Hard Song Fall Interesting Rain Bob Solo Dylan Cover Songs

Author:Bryan Ferry

“There is no morality in the mushroom cloud. The black rain of nuclear ashes will fall alike on the just and the unjust. And then it will be too late to wish that we had done the real work of this atomic age, which is to seek a world that is neither red nor dead.”

World Real Done Age Fall Wish Black Morality Late Red Rain Clouds Nuclear Too Late Ashes Unjust Mushrooms Real Work

Author:Edward Kennedy

“Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards? Where is the marvel of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon if we are to allow of a hanging world at the Antipodes?”

Ifs Men World Believe May Fall Growing Tree Feet Higher Rain Garden Foolish Backwards Babylon Rain Falling Antipodes

Author:Lactantius