Rain Quotes - Page 79

Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it.

Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.

Putting miles in your training log is like putting money in the bank. You begin to draw interest on it immediately.

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

The mayfly lives only one day. And sometimes it rains.

Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m sleeping while awake, standing by the window, leaning against it as against everything. I search in myself for the sensations I feel before these falling threads of darkly luminous water that stand out from the grimy building facades and especially from the open windows. And I don’t know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don’t know what to think or where I am.

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.

My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home.

You're a monster, Mr. Grinch. Your heart's an empty hole. Your brain is full of spiders, You've got garlic in your soul.

Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.

I resisted the urge to pour mouthwash in my brain.

The skin is no more separated from the brain than the surface of a lake is separate from its depths; the two are different locations in a continuous medium...The brain is a single functional unit, from cortex to fingertips to toes. To touch the surface is to stir the depths.

Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as we notice, more and more often, how much of our perceptions emerge from our preconceptions.

A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.

Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.

The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.

The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.