#rain

(...) the train goes fast and is going fast when it crosses a little trestle. You catch the sober, metallic, pure, late-light, unriffled glint of the water between the little banks, under the sky, and see the cow standing in the water upstream near the single leaning willow. And all at once you feel like crying. But the train is going fast, and almost immediately whatever you feel is taken away from you, too. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#men

Leadership reveals itself in the big moments, but is forged in the small. It is the exponential and compounding product of our many incremental behaviors and actions; all of which arise out of our choices in values, beliefs & emotions. Choices all. Not a one is thrust upon us. ↗

— Christopher Babson

#leadership #leadership-expert #leadership-keynote #leadership-speaker #leadership-training

In life, you either choose to sing a rainbow, or you don't. Keep singing. ↗

— Kathleen Long

#life #motivational #rainbows #singing #inspirational

Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story ↗

— Hilary Duff

#hurt #inspirational #love #rain #waiting

The rainy days in life are what make us treasure the sunny days. ↗

— Suzannah Daniels

#daniels #ghostly-encounter #inspirational #life #rainy-days

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ↗

— Joyce Kilmer

#inspirational #poem #poems #rain #tree

We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#soldiers #war #freedom

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow. ↗

— Douglas Pagels

#freedom #freedom-of-thought #liberated #living-life #rainbow

And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months. ↗

— Brandon Routh

#also #australia #body #couple #effort

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#any #brain #falls #habits #his