Sky And Clouds Quotes:

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.12, University of Arizona Press

topic: Nature, Journey, Clouds, Lonesome, Leading Causes

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Motivational, Buddhist, Children, Buddhist Monk, Spiritual Vision

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

- Martin Luther

topic: Nature, Stars, Flower, Dark Clouds, Clouds And Stars

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

- Anais Nin

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Strength, Clouds, Sky, Appease, Clouds And Stars

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Wise, Gratitude, Nature, Spiritual Nature, Sun And Stars

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

- Henry Van Dyke

source: Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.5, Wildside Press LLC

topic: Love, Life, Happiness, Life Is Precious, Life Is Beautiful

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Anchors, Sky, Breathing, Meditation Mind, Meditation Mindfulness

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Graduation, Hope, Carpe Diem, Breaking Rules, Organic Architecture

A pessimist sees only 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.

- Leonard Louis Levinson

topic: Attitude, Dark, Clouds, Dark Side, Optimism And Pessimism

God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold.

- Sathya Sai Baba

topic: Fall, Heart, Clouds, Egoism, Clouds And Stars

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

source: 'The Cloud' (1819)

topic: Daughter, Ocean, Clouds, Sunbeams, Caverns

The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

- Mark Twain

topic: Angel, Clouds, Air, Pilots And Flying, Clouds And Stars

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.

- Richard Bach

topic: Moving, Yoga, Sky, Higher Self, Beyond The Horizon

The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Sleep, Clouds, Bird, Clouds And Stars, Clouds Sky

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Life, Thinking, Clouds, Clouds And Stars, Clouds Sky

Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

topic: Dark, Blue, Sea, Dark Blue, Dark Clouds

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Positive, Happiness, Appreciation, Sunny Day, Sunny Disposition

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

- Emily Dickinson

source: Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1309, Harvard University Press

topic: Summer, Nature, Lying, Summer Garden, Summer Inspirational

Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.

- Thomas Love Peacock

source: Thomas Love Peacock (1818). “Rhododaphne: Or, The Thessalian Spell: A Poem”, p.119

topic: Clouds, Heaven, Vaults, Clouds And Stars, Clouds Sky

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

- Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Storms Of Life, Sound Of Rain

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

topic: Sunset, Heart, Sky, Clouds And Stars, Clouds Sky

I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one.

- John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

source: John Gardiner Calkins BRAINARD (1842). “The Poems of John G. C. Brainard. A New and Authentic Collection, with an Original Memoir of His Life. [With a Portrait.]”, p.19

topic: Morning, Clouds, Two, Clouds Sky, Sky And Clouds

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

- John Lubbock

topic: Inspirational, Success, Summer, Inspirational Nature, Inspirational Retirement

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

- Francois Rabelais

topic: Attitude, Fall, Opportunity, Clouds And Stars, Sky And Clouds

Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

- John Milton

topic: Night, Clouds, Silver, Clouds Sky, Sky And Clouds

I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

topic: Rain, Rivers, Water, Clouds Sky, Sky And Clouds

See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.185

topic: Clouds, Wind, Littles, Clouds Sky, Sky And Clouds

The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.6

topic: Rain, Clouds, Friars, Rain Drop, Beads

The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, to me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

- William Wordsworth

source: 'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 11

topic: Lying, Flower, Heart, Clouds Sky, Too Deep

When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Sky, Clouds, Earth, Clouds Sky, Bosoms

When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.

- Antonio Porchia

source: "Voives". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

topic: Happiness, Clouds, Lost, Sky And Clouds

It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Sleep, Night, Sky, Stars In The Night Sky, Solemnity

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

- e. e. cummings

topic: Inspirational, Life, Thank You, Beautiful Nature, Nature Beauty

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

- Duke Ellington

topic: Music, Clouds, Sky, Gray Skies, Sky And Clouds

Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Fire, Clouds, West, Sky And Clouds

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Clouds, Blame, Blame Me, Clouds Sky, Eccentricity

Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly I well know whither, And rest I well know where.

- Robert Bridges

source: Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

topic: Clouds, Air, Skirts, Up In The Air, Clouds And Stars

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams....

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

topic: Dream, Flower, Sea, Clouds And Stars, Clouds Sky

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

- Aristophanes

topic: Clouds, Centaurs, Bulls, Sky And Clouds

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

source: "Ode to the West Wind" l. 70 (1819)

topic: Spring, Winter, Air, March Poems, Spring Inspirational

And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins.

- Kathleen Raine

topic: Clouds, Sky, Tree, Sky And Clouds

O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.

- Helen Hunt

source: H.H. (Helen Hunt) (1887). “Helen Jackson's Poems”

topic: Flower, Weather, Clouds, Sky And Clouds