A stone, no matter how small, resists the wind.
– Matshona Dhliwayo
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- If you love a girl, you never give up on her, no matter how long she resists you. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- It is in vain to stone the sky, no matter how big the rock is. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The old resists the new one.’Change hurts’ is the reason. – Toba Beta
- Great battles that prevail in actions had been won or lost earlier in thoughts. When the mind resists change, it’s in vain the legs chase it! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them. – Alan Cohen
- The door refuses and resists any key which does not belong to that door! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. – John Green
- After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom. – Arthur Golden
- A bird, unable to fly, is still a bird; but a human unable to love is an inexpensive stone: like a piece of uric acid stone – Munia Khan
- A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air. – Mehmet Murat ildan
- I believe i am hard as a stone, but even a stone breaks if you smash it real hard….. – Andy Flynn
- Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. – Jorge Luis Borges
- You can get the man out of stone-age, but not stone-age out of man. – Abhijit Naskar
- Suddenly, I can’t move. I can’t speak. I am set in stone, but it’s a glorious chiseled sort of stone. – Travis Thrasher
- A stranger sleeps next to me, like a stone beside another stone. – Mihail Sebastian
- She loves him sobut he didn’t stay.The wind can’t blowthis storm away. – Phoebe Stone
- Wind is wind. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Wind is the sacred music of the leaves; wherever and whenever the wind blows, over there leaves start their holy dancing frantically! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it’s gone. – Jalaluddin Rumi
- Other times when I hear the wind blowI feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born. – Alberto Caeiro
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- No one tries to stone a tree whose fruit is not ripe. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- People only stone a tree that is full of ripe fruit. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Today is tomorrow’s stepping stone, but for the wise it is a ladder. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If you throw a stone into the ocean, it will reach the bottom; if you throw a word into someone’s heart, it will reach their soul. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A tree dances for the wind not because it enjoys it, but because it doesn’t want to break. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- You don’t command wind in the direction it blows, but you command a ship in the direction it sails. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A bird does not fly because of the wind around it, but because of the strength within it. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Wind either breaks a tree or teaches it to dance. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A tree’s nature does not change because the wind blew off a few of its leaves. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A tree does not stop growing because the wind blew off a few of its leaves. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Wind has no home in the world,and therefore wanders everywhere.Light has no home in the universe,and therefore returns to God. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Wind has no feet,but travels great distances,and has no hands,but carries great objects. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- When the wind blows, the weak are carried away by it, the strong resist it, and the wise manipulate it. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A great storm is like a sunny day to a person of great faith. A gentle wind is like a great storm to a person of great fear. – Matshona Dhliwayo