#storm

Do not allow yourself to be full of hate, princess. Hate is a heavy thing. It weighs us down, chaining us in a dark place. You focus on your love. If you want to be free of this heavy darkness you feel, focus on your love. Love is a chariot with a skeleton key to the chains which hate can wrap around you. To love is to be free. ↗

— H.D. Gordon

#love #shooting-stars #star-crossed #star-crossed-lovers #surah-stormsong

They roar with Dharma-thunder; They strike the Dharma-drum; They spread clouds of love, and pour ambrosial rain. Their giant footsteps nourish limitless beings; Sravaka, Pratyeka, Bodhisattva--all are enlightened; Five kinds of human nature all are emancipated. ↗

— Yoka Genkaku

#maruts #path #storm #love

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#bad #bad weather #defy #face #joy

I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It was a very free upbringing, and I'm grateful to my parents for that. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#complete #dark #free #grateful #i

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership. ↗

— Faye Wattleton

#only #safe #ship #storm

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#chilling #come #contentious #does #lap

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#anything #blackest #end #endure #last

He made a sound close to a growl before speaking. “Why do you resist my assistance?” She stopped walking and faced him. “Because I don't like you. ↗

— Lia Davis

#demon #magic #paranormal-romance #the-divinities-series #witch

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#boat #challenged #changed #creatively #environment

Storms make trees take deeper roots. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#make #roots #storms #take #trees