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Douglas South Wind

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases. – Homer
Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against not with the wind. – Hamilton Mabie
Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale. – Johnson
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. – Seneca
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. – Seneca
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. – Latin Proverb
If there is no wind, row. – Latin Proverb
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. – Kahlil Gibran
In the e-age, e-wind is any e-push (forwarding, highlighting or repeating) given to your content by others. – Chase LeBlanc
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. – Winston Churchill
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen. – Ashley Smith
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. – Buddha
Our lives are like a candle in the wind. – Carl Sandburg
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts. – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails. – William Arthur Ward
Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed. – Chinese Proverb
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. – Bertha Calloway
To Robert Fulton: What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you excuse me, I have no time to listen to such nonsense. – Napoleon I
Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind. – Wilfred Wilson Gibson
I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the South and North Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth – Edward H. S. Terry
I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.""A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer." "Ask not the grass to give you green, and later walk all over it.”“Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss.” Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind.” "The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask."If you put a clock in a bottle, with time it will crack, as like money, as like love, as like a beautiful mind, with no soul." “If eyes are windows to the soul, then tears are heavens rain.”"It's not how many friends you can count, it's how many of those you can count on.” – Anthony Liccione
George May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face. Fred And may the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars. – Blow
Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. – Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
Blow O wind to where my loved one is. Touch him and come touch me soon. I'll feel his gentle touch through you and meet his beauty in the moon. These things are much for the one who loves. One can live by them alone that he and I breathe the same air and that the Earth we tread is one. – Ramayana

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