Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
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Kaleidoscope #232
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.
–Nora Roberts
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Kaleidoscope #231
You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
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Kaleidoscope #230
So, we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
― Hunter S. Thompson
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Kaleidoscope #229
Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves.
They flickered out saying:
“It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.”
–Carl Sandburg
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Kaleidoscope #228
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
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Kaleidoscope #227
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
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Kaleidoscope #226
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
–Haruki Murakami
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Kaleidoscope #225
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
–Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
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Kaleidoscope #224
…I don’t just wish you rain, Beloved – I wish you the beauty of storms…
–John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
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D.M. Sessous: writer, artist & dreamer 