Breeze Quotes

• One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.

  

  David Ignatow
  • Despair
  • Loneliness
  • Branch

• Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Security
  • Common
  • Hug

• An ego should be like a warm breeze, never seen, just mildly sensed.

  

  David Luiz
  • Warm
  • Breeze
  • Sensed

• Sometimes, I see myself standing on a beach, my bare feet buried in the wet sand. And there’s no one on the beach, just me, but I don’t feel alone. What I feel is alive. And it seems like the whole world belongs to me. The cool breeze whistles through my hair, and something tells me I have heard that song all my life. I’m watching the waves hit the sand, the ebb and flow of the waves crashing against the distant cliffs. The ocean is ever moving—​and yet there is a stillness that I envy.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Hair
  • Beach
  • Envy

• Life isn't about the cherished moments it is also about the hard ones. Just knowing each day that you will arise with the bright shining sun in your eyes. And end with the cool breeze upon your face as you slowly reflect the day that passed by.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Moments
  • Eye
  • Shining

• Because' I repeated, as a breeze blew over us, "sometimes things just happen. That aren't expected. Or on the list." "Such as?" he asked "I don't know," I said, frustrated. "That's the point. It would be out of the blue, taking us by surprise. Something we might not be prepared for." "But we will be prepared," he said, confused. "We'll have the list.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Sometimes
  • Blue
  • Confused

• From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Truth
  • Hand
  • Breeze

• I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Light
  • Pain
  • Weakness

• Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.

  

  George Vancouver
  • Attention
  • Advantages
  • Breeze

• September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An Innuendo sear That makes the Heart put up its Fun And turn Philosopher.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Heart
  • Philosopher
  • Breeze

• I don't know if it was much of an interview. We just shot the breeze.

  

  Richard Petty
  • Much
  • Interview
  • Breeze

• Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Wisdom
  • Clarity
  • Bookshelves

• The cool breeze that ruffled her hair felt like something more than wind.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Wind
  • Breeze
  • Ruffled

• Like a lake unruffled by any breeze, the concentrated mind is a faithful reflector that mirrors whatever is placed before it exactly as it is.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Mirrors
  • Breeze
  • Reflector

• The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.

  

  Rumi
  • Secrets
  • Dawn
  • Breeze

• It was queer how it all hurt you--how the odor of the night, the silver sheen of the moon, the moist feeling of the dew, the whispering of the night breeze, how somewhere down in your throat it hurt you.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Night
  • Hurt
  • Breeze

• The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Bliss
  • Breeze
  • Spider

• As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Opinion
  • Succeed
  • Politician

• Creation isn't forcing or commanding something into existence. It's more of a rolling over, a good stretch, blissing out, lying on the grass watching the flowers blowing in the breeze or the clouds floating by.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Lying
  • Existence
  • Flower

• When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Silence
  • Breeze
  • Echoes

• We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Choose
  • Arbitrary
  • Blown

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