#wind

A fish cannot drown in water, A bird does not fall in air. In the fire of creation, God doesn't vanish: The fire brightens. Each creature God made must live in its own true nature; How could I resist my nature, That lives for oneness with God? ↗

— Mechthild of Magdeburg

#god #inner-nature #transcendence #wind #nature

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travels, with a little bit of me added to it. ↗

— Katherine Hannigan

#healing #nature #wind #nature

Verovao vetru, povetarcu, sad sam oduvan od razočarenja. ↗

— Marko Sokolovic

#love #relationship #truth #wind #love

Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#computers #itunes #mac #steve-jobs #windows

Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote. ↗

— China Miéville

#grammar

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. ↗

— Aesop

#bending #force #had #little #over

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#breath #changes #direction #fame #his way

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#best #boat #dark #doing #full

Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#banks #blowing #creatures #hold #live

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#control #equal #her #man #mind