"Storm"❓

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.—Louisa May Alcott

Just as the tumultuous chaos of a thunderstorm brings a nurturing rain that allows life to flourish, so too in human affairs times of advancement are preceded by times of disorder. Success comes to those who can weather the storm.—I Ching

It is not within anyone’s power to save the whole world, but it is within your power to add whatever you can, with a loving and caring and peaceful heart. You can tend the portion of the world that you touch, you can add a bit of beauty and understanding to the world, you can become the one calm person standing in the boat in a great storm or during an attack by pirates. And by doing so with peace and equanimity, you can show others that it is possible for them to do so as well. When you do, you will join with the forces of peace in the complex unfolding of life. And in that moment you will feel yourself to be one with the vastness from which you and all beings were born, returning to the silence that surrounds you in every moment of your life.—Jack Kornfield

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.—Joyce Meyer

It is easy to keep self-possession in a place of tranquility, yet it is by no means easy to keep mind undisturbed amid the bivouac of actual life. It is true Dhyana that makes our mind sunny while the storms of strife rage around us. It is true Dhyana that secures the harmony of heart, while the surges of struggle toss us violently. It is true Dhyana that makes us bloom and smile, while the winter of life covers us with frost and snow.—Kaiten Nukariya

As he had done so many times before, Lincoln withstood the storm of defeat by replacing anguish over an unchangeable past with hope in an uncharted future.—Doris Kearns Goodwin

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.—Lincoln

Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the storms of spring without the fear that after them may come no summer. It does come. But it comes only to the patient, who are there as though eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly still and wide. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful: patience is everything!—Maria Popova

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.―Rabindranath Tagore

The world isn’t interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.―Raul Armesto

I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night,—blown and flared by passion’s storm,—and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains.—Robert Green Ingersoll