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“The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.”

Years Fall Sun Color Comfortable Skins My Favorite Warmth Breeze Coolness

Author:Ricky Skaggs

“Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came from. I was used to dry clarity and sharpness in the air. I was used to horizons that either lifted into jagged ranges or rimmed the geometrical circle of the flat world. I was used to seeing a long way. I was used to earth colors--tan, rusty red, toned white--and the endless green of Iowa offended me. I was used to a sun that came up over mountains and went down behind other mountains. I missed the color and smell of sagebrush, and the sight of bare ground.”

“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.”

Mind May Fall Sun Psychology Conscious Pool Subconscious Fountain Psychiatrist Psychoanalysis Subconscious Mind Conscious Mind Power Subconscious Mind

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Every human encounter is the external embodiment of an attraction between two magnetic fields. The encounter comes suddenly, unexpectedly. It is a moment of truth. It is a moment of revelation, as when the right ray of sun penetrates through the right window pane, and falls with the right slant on one picture in the museum.”

Humans Two Moments Fall Sun Fields Window Attraction Encounters Revelations Museums Rays Penetrate Embodiment Magnetic Moment Of Truth Window Panes Magnetic Fields

Author:Amalia Kahana-Carmon

“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 approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.”

Light Night Fall Sun Sky Approach Lows Autumn Shade Twilight Dew Deck Blushing Fall Autumn Departing

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton

“You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.”

Ifs Way Giving Doe Enough Moments Helping Might Form Fall Girl Grows Growth Sun Air Flower Fairs Dust Decay Hammers Fetters Narcissus

Book:Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin

Source: Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin

“There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.”

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“This world has suns, but they are overcast;This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;Life still expects, and empty falls at last;Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb.”

World Stills Lasts Fall Sun This World Sweet Empty Warm Rings Tombs Tiptoes Overcast

Book:The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems

Source: The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems

“Nor ever yet the melting rainbow's vernal-tinctur'd hues to me have shone so pleasing, as when first the hand of science pointed out the path in which the sun-beams gleaming from the west fall on the watery cloud.”

Firsts Hands Fall Sun Path West Clouds Rainbow Melting Beam Hue

Author:Mark Akenside

“What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter between them? Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain? and Whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world? To what end are comets? and Whence is it that planets move all one and the same way in orbs concentrick, while comets move all manner of ways in orbs very excentrick? and What hinders the fixed stars from falling upon one another?”

World Way Ends Matter Moving Order Fall Stars Sun Planets Empty Arise Vain Fixed Hinder Dense Comets Orbs

Author:Isaac Newton

“Common sense tells us that the world is flat, that the sun goes around the earth, that heavy bodies always fall faster than light bodies, that boats made of iron will sink.”

World Made Body Light Earth Fall Common Sun Heavy Common Sense Boat Faster Iron Flats Iron Will World Is Flat

Book:The Proper Study of Mankind

Source: The Proper Study of Mankind

“Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.”

Fall Water Poverty Sun Fortune Ice Rays

Author:Ihara Saikaku

“Human society is part of the general order, and the more our knowledge increases the less we are inclined to believe that the birth or death of princes, the rise or fall of millionaires, are matters that cause the sun to stand still or even produce the appearance of comets in the sky.”

Believe Humans Stills Matter Order Fall Causes Sun Sky Produce Birth Increase Appearance Millionaire Human Society Comets

Author:Arthur Alfred Lynch

“Every morning, just like in Alabama, I got up with the sun, ate my breakfast even before my mother and sisters and brothers, and went to school, winter, spring, and fall alike to run and jump and bend my body this way and that for Mr. Charles Riley.”

Way Body Running School Mother Fall Sports Morning Sun Brother Spring Winter Athlete Breakfast Every Morning Brothers And Sisters Alabama

Book:Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

Source: Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

“Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.”

Form Fall Sun Atheism Eternal Positive Atheism Lifts Atoms

Book:Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam

Source: Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam

“When a sudden ray of sun or a moonbeam falls on a dreary street, it makes no difference what it illumines-a broken bottle on the ground, a fading flower in a field, or the flaxen blonde hair of a child's head. The object is transformed and the viewer is transfixed. Celebrate that moment of beauty and take it with you in your memory. It is God's gift to you.”

“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

“Night doesn't fall in Rome; it rises from the city's heart, from the gloomy little alleys and courtyards where the sun never gets much more than a brief look-in, and then, like the mist from the Tiber, it creeps over the rooftops and spreads up into the hills.”

Looks Heart Littles Night Fall Cities Sun Spread Hills Rome Mist Creeps Gloomy Alleys Rooftops

Author:Caroline Llewellyn

“To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.”

World Lasts Faces Dies Fall Understanding Pleasure Sun Forever Knowing Amount Adults Beloved Fashionable Passing Away Mockery Petals Savoring

Author:Amy Bloom

“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

“Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their minds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down and worship their own ideas; but rather address their homage to that eternal invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.”

Source: Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding

“Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things.”

“The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground.”

Life Sometimes Fall Force Water Sun Balls Depth Casts Shooting Thrown Rays Fountain Up And Down Catching Ups & Downs Vicissitudes Gilded Shooting Up

Author:Lady Randolph Churchill

“I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, after the day's great sun.”

Needs Eye Fall Sun Falling In Love Heavenly Valentine Valentine's Day Being In Love Being Loved Valentine Phrases Sweet Valentine Short Valentines Day Short Valentine Sweet Valentines Day

Book:The Quiet Singer: And Other Poems

Source: The Quiet Singer: And Other Poems

“The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.”

Men God Earth Fall Water Sun Five Air He Man Ought Ill Creator Servant Servant Of God

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“When I think of mystery, I don't think about myself. I think of the universe, like why does the moon rise when the sun falls? Caterpillars turn into butterflies? I really haven't remained a recluse.”

Thinking Doe Turns Fall Universe Sun Mystery Havens Moon Butterfly Caterpillars Recluse Moon Rise

Author:Bob Dylan

“If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.”

Ifs World Light Turns Fall Felt Pleasure Sun Streets Greatness Shadow Falling In Love Lightning Impressed Thunder Majesty Fireworks Short Lived Thunder And Lightning Street Lights

Author:John Piper

“The sun was set; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place; The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings, And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings.”

Night Fall Sun Wings Rounds Bats Dew Owl Airy

Author:John Gay

“The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness. If you do, you will fall into a neutral kind of emptiness. Emptiness includes the sun, moon, stars, and planets, the great earth, mountains and rivers, all trees and grasses, bad people and good people, bad things and good things, heaven and hell; they are all in the midst of emptiness. The emptiness of human nature is also like this.”

Source: The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

“You are the fountain of the sun. I'm the shadow of a willow. You fall upon my forehead. I melt. You slip into my heart. It spills open. You surround me with such sweetness. I make it my home.”

Heart Home Fall Sun My Heart Shadow Surround Slips Sweetness Fountain Foreheads Spills

Author:Rumi

“I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less that God wishes - that every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its orbit, as well as the sun in the heavens - that the chaff from the hand of the winnower is steered as the stars in their course. The creeping of an aphid over the rosebush is as much fixed as the march of the devastating pestilence - the fall of...leaves from a poplar is as fully ordained as the tumbling of an avalanche.”

Source: Sermons of the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon: Second series

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

Source: Salmagundi

“It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.”

Enough Faces Fall Perfect Sun Air Kissing Your Face Wakes You

Author:Anita Diament

“Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane, fasten seat-belt, air born, flight, rocking, sun, stars, space, hips of strolling stewardesses, read, sleep, clouds, falling engine speed, descent, circling, touch down, earth, unfasten seat-belt, stairs, airport, immunization book, visa, customs, questions, taxi, streets, houses, people, hotel, key, room, stuffiness, thirst, otherness, foreignness, loneliness, fatigue, life.”

“So now we're after a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a guy-and-gal thing. To the founders, this would have been like an amendment requiring the sun to rise in the east; it would fall under the category of obvious truths that the Constitution need not address.”

Needs Has Beens Guy Fall Sun Constitution Obvious East Addresses Categories Amendments Founders Gals Constitutional Amendments

Author:James Lileks

“Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and bring to life Your land. Look down upon this winter wheat and be glad that You have made blue for the sky and the color green that fills Your fields with praise.”

Looks Made Hands Fall Sun Sky Land Fields Color Rain Praise Blue Green Winter Glad Bless Tenderness Wheat

Author:Rich Mullins

“Shadows are falling and I've been here all day/It's too hot to sleep, time is running away/Feel like my soul has turned into steel/I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal.”

Feels Stills Soul Running Fall Sleep Sun Shadow Hot Heal My Soul Scar Running Away Steel Time To Sleep

Author:Bob Dylan

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”

“Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”

Inspirational Religion Turns Fall Spirituality Heaven Sun Doors Positive Raises Shining Islam Sufi

Author:Rumi

“In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green water, And the expensive ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.”

May Important Turns Fall Water White Boys Sun Heard Sky Cry Green Legs Disappear Disaster Ships Instance Expensive Forsaken Icarus

Book:Canción de cuna y otros poemas

Source: Canción de cuna y otros poemas

“Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or because the boy standing under the tree wants to eat it? None of these is the cause.... Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own freewill is in the historical sense not free at all but is bound up with the whole course of history and preordained from all eternity.”

Want Doe Whole Seems Action Fall Courses Force Grows Causes Boys Sun Tree Standing Eternity Historical Bounds Heavy Apples Gravity Ripe Stalking

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.”

Fall Sun Poet Judging Judgement Helpless

Author:Walt Whitman

“You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try”

Trying Reason Might Fall Sun Tree Sky Leafs Happy Endings

Book:How They Met and Other Stories

Source: How They Met and Other Stories

“When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.”