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«A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them.»
Author: Leonard L. Levinson
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism
| Keywords:
clouds, Dark Side, Dark Side of the, moped, mopes, moping, optimist, pessimist, philosopher, shrug, shrugged, shrugs, sides, The Clouds, The Dark, walking
«Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.»
Author: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
abandoned, afflictive, clouds, pass on, temporary, ultimately
«A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Mothers
| Keywords:
cling, cling to, clouds, counsels, desert, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, endeavor, fall into place, fall upon, heavy, Precepts, rejoice, Return to, sudden, The Clouds, thicken, Trials, truest
«As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in himself.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
answers, believes, clouds, fulfillment, ideal, look for, outside, solutions, The Clouds
«Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music...music one can live in like a house.»
«Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.»
«Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.»
«A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed...It feels an impulsion...this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.»
Author: Richard Bach
(Writer)
| Keywords:
A horizon, Beyond Reason, Beyond the Horizon, cloud, clouded, clouding, clouds, Clouds The, cloud over, direction, feels, high, horizons, impulsion, in a higher place, lift, moves, patterned, patterns, reasons, sky, sped, speed, speeded, speeded up, speeds, speed up, This is the Place, to a higher place
«A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
believer, bird, cage, clouds, eagle, freethinker, Freethinkers, parting, partings, The Clouds, tireless, wing
«Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
Begin, clouded, clouding, clouds, Clouds The, cloud over, descending, foundation, humility, lay, Pierce, pierces, piercing, plan, rise, The Clouds, The Foundation, tower, Towered