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.
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You have been slaves, de... DANIEL KEYS MORAN You can learn from those who have come down from the mountain, but you won’t have the same experie... RICHIE NORTON It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rock... ALEXANDRE DUMAS Without eliminating the fog in your mind, you won’t be able to see clearly! And how can you elimin... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Storm will never take you in consideration whether you take the storm in consideration or not! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will c... SHANNON A. THOMPSON God can allow you to pass through storms and get to your success. But what the devil loves to do is ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If I keep pushing myself, I’ll finally be somebody. I’ll finally matter. I’ll finally arrive.�... KEVIN DEYOUNG Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. 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DONNA LYNN HOPE I promise that this will be the last time you’ll see me. I won’t come back. I won’t put you th... STEPHENIE MEYER The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Prepare for the worst and you won’t be disappointed. JOHN CONNOLLY I know love is fragile. And loving someone like you is near impossible. Like holding something shatt... RENEE AHDIEH You expect to shut that feeling away? No, I ask that you feel it more. There's no other way to stand... ADAM BURCH To reiterate, no matter how much pepper you eat, it won’t undo the ludicrous amount of salt you at... ALLIE BROSH To lovers out there.... If he tells you “ Stop working, stop studying, stop dreaming, s... DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS I laid myself fucking bare last night! I put it all out there, and you shut me down. Rightfully so. ... JENNY HAN Mindfulness won’t ensure you’ll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won’t enable you... SHARON SALZBERG Sometimes you think you have all of tomorrow ahead of you,’ Mama often said. ‘When the sun is sh... LISA SEE By the time I’ve finished with you, you won’t know whether you’ve been kissed or cut,... WARSAN SHIRE You terrify me. But not enough to make me think you won’t be worth it. LEISA RAYVEN Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, ... JOSS WHEDON Fear is frightening emotion & one must be bold enough to tackle it.If you always avoid situations th... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The worst thing right now is the weather. Every time we try to have something, there is a storm. How... HERMAN ANDREWS Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there's nothing you can do. GOLDA MEIR And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief th... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY When you focus on the now, you won’t become fearful of the future JASON D SCOTT Remember every storm is different. The better prepared you are, the less of an inconvenience it's go... ANDY NEWMAN I know what you might be thinking here on your own, but those thoughts won’t last for ever,’ I s... SARAH MOORE FITZGERALD I’m going to fuck you so hard, you won’t remember your own name. KRISTEN PROBY It is really a miracle how you have managed to be so miserable, so thirsty, when it is raining all o... OSHO This trail is never-changing, it won’t lead you astray. It won’t always be easy to follow and at... BRITTANY L. ENGELS Attempt is more important than achievement. So when you are serious to do anything in life, make a s... RAKESH RAMAN Remember , no storm will ever last a life time. Just hold on, be brave and have faith. Before you kn... DIANERSTE ROSS The storm will pass and you will be ok, the real challenge is to keep going in the same direction af... VIKTORIJA GRUMBLYTė When you compare him with his predecessor, who took the Vatican by storm and the world by storm, thi... CHESTER GILLIS The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed; you must have a larg... JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind... DIANE SETTERFIELD If you did not evacuate, stay inside until everything is safe. Make sure the winds die down because ... DAVID PAULISON The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her. FRANK SINATRA Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how y... ANNA TAYLOR You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think,... HANYA YANAGIHARA Did you know that if you put a frog in boiling water, he’ll jump out? But, if you put one in cold ... EMMA CHASE Don’t blame others. it won’t make you a better person. LOLLY DASKAL Once you get into the facility, you would never even know there was a storm here. BILL KILDUFF You’re only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that’s the only person you can control. Other pe... SUSAN MALLERY You won’t ever have everyone love you, just as you won’t have everyone hate you. find the right ... ELISE KOVA I don’t know you? Hell, I know you! You’re a damn coward, is what you are! You’re afraid of li... NICHOLAS SPARKS Don’t make yourself poor to one who won’t make you rich. VIKRANT PARSAI Whatever it is that you want to do, do it today because you can handle the pain of trying hard now b... DHAVAL GAJERA When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is an... AMBER FREY You may say you won’t interfere with another person’s soul, but you do—merely by existing. The... DOROTHY L. SAYERS With perseverance and endurance you can survive any storm. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA In addition we had a whole bunch of lightning and thunder. That's pretty rare, and any time you get ... STEVE DAVIS If you can’t breathe, you likely won’t care what your stock portfolio is doing... You will only ... TRAVIS J HEDRICK The problem is that these institutions made it through the storm but the worst may be yet to come. ED ABLE If the storm underestimates your power, nothing happens to him; but if you underestimate the power o... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The next time you are worrying about something, try to remember that you aren’t always in control.... DEMI LOVATO It’s not a bad lesson to learn in the bleaker months: how you view a storm is a question of perspe... DAN STEVENS The key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don’t ... MATT HAIG Anyone can have a friend, but the one that would walk in a storm to find you is all you will ever ne... SHANNON L. ALDER Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by. ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it com... RICHELLE MEAD Most storm damage is usually concentrated in one area, but with this wind storm, we had debris all o... DAN BRUCKER Why start something that you won’t see to the end? You need to finish what you start! NABIL N. JAMAL there’s something liberating about the craftsman mindset: It asks you to leave behind self-centere... CAL NEWPORT
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HARUKI MURAKAMI Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a... HARUKI MURAKAMI If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I... HARUKI MURAKAMI The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m... HARUKI MURAKAMI I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things... HARUKI MURAKAMI Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana ? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin... HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. HARUKI MURAKAMI You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get. HARUKI MURAKAMI When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unh... HARUKI MURAKAMI George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don... HARUKI MURAKAMI You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes yo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at ... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets. HARUKI MURAKAMI These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say somethi... HARUKI MURAKAMI From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you. HARUKI MURAKAMI He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was... HARUKI MURAKAMI The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anyth... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted. HARUKI MURAKAMI The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words. HARUKI MURAKAMI Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the... HARUKI MURAKAMI A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose ... HARUKI MURAKAMI They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were n... HARUKI MURAKAMI Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off. HARUKI MURAKAMI But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. HARUKI MURAKAMI If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Night... HARUKI MURAKAMI I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you nee... HARUKI MURAKAMI Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. HARUKI MURAKAMI Nah, I shook my head, things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all. W... HARUKI MURAKAMI We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died... HARUKI MURAKAMI It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical HARUKI MURAKAMI I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book;... HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. HARUKI MURAKAMI The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be lear... HARUKI MURAKAMI People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. HARUKI MURAKAMI Wherever there's hope there's a trial. HARUKI MURAKAMI The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's... HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm just ordinary guy, ordinary family, ordinary education, ordinary face, ordinary exam results, or... HARUKI MURAKAMI He wasn't normally conscious of it, but there was one part of his body that was extremely sensitive,... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are ... HARUKI MURAKAMI You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer,... HARUKI MURAKAMI