Encounters Quote by William Gilmore Simms

“All the luck in the world has to come every year, in every part of every year, or there is not a harvest and…

— Gary Paulsen

When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.

— Anonymous

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our…

— Agnes Repplier

“You should thank the God for making the weather so nice today. People's fates can change just like the weather, you know?”

— Masumi Seki

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

— Emilio Estevez

it must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or cleverness or…

— John Calvin

“In some literature, I’ve read, weather is used as a metaphor. The darker and stormier the weather outside the more diabolical the deeds done.…

— Benjamin R. Smith

We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Rainy, gloomy, drab, sunless day.  There are times when hope seems entirely clouded over, when looking for the blessings in your circumstances feels like…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from the gods,…

— Marcus Aurelius

“People are made to realize the uncertainty and unsatisfactoriness of the affairs of this life. By losses, diseases, bereavements, or bitter disappointments, God seeks…

— G.H. Gerberding