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Rain can be refreshing and lovely

• I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.  Adeline Knapp
• The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,–of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,–such health, such cheer, they afford forever! Henry David Thoreau
• Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin
• We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain. Henry David Thoreau
• Rain is beautiful when it comes hurried and passionate, fleeing from the storm wind, hurled, like a volley of small musketry, against your streaming panes…. It is beautiful in the Midsummer, when it comes in light, soft showers, or, more in earnest, accompanied with thunder-music, straight and heavy; when, as the poet says— “Rolling as in sleep,  Low thunders bring the mellow rain.  John Richard Vernon
• It is beautiful when it rains far away in the distance, the bright sun shining on the mound on which you stand, and only a few guerilla drops heralding the approach of the shower towards you. John Richard Vernon
• Rainbows,  Nature,  Winter,  Life is sunshine and storm

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Rain can be romantic

• I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops. Nikki Giovanni
• Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder. Edwin Morgan, A Book of Lives
• I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other. Billy Bob Thornton
• And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it’s always daisy-time. H. Lawrence
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Rain can be an adventure

• Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure. Emily Wing Smith
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Rain brings life

• Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. John Updike
• All sunshine without a little rain makes a desert.
• The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. Abraham Cowley
• Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service. Bhagavad Gita
• Tears are the rain of life. Nothing grows without water.
• The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world. John Tyler Bonner
• I need you like the desert needs the rain.
• For months we have had scarcely any rain…. The grass and the trees have seemed to remain at a standstill, as though waiting for something. When I pour waterpot after waterpot of water about the roots of some favourite or needy plant, the water runs off the caked ground… seemingly, without quenching the fever-thirst of the earth…. The beauty of rain is a thing often missed, I think, even by those who do keep, as they pass through this world, a keen eye for the Creator’s thoughts, embodied in beauty about them…. John Richard Vernon
• The crisp drenching rustle from the dry foliage of the perceptibly grateful trees… the little plants, in speechless ecstasy, receiving cupful after cupful into the outspread leaves, that silently empty their gracious load, time after time, into the still expecting roots, and open their hands still for more. John Richard Vernon

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Rain brings abundance

• Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. St. Basil
• If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer’s crop, who are we to say it shouldn’t rain? Tom Barrett
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Rain can have a lovely smell

• I loved the rain as a child… I loved the smell of wet grass and raincoats and the shaggy coats of dogs. Frederick Buechner
• Earth and rain—dust and desire—what mingled odor of these is not sweet? Virginia Garland
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Rain can be most comforting …

• The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water. Douglas Coupland, Life After God
• Stew’s so comforting on a rainy day. Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

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… especially the sound of it

• The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. Henry Beston
• On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty. Mark Haddon
• I loved the rain as a child. I loved the sound of it on the leaves of trees and roofs and window panes and umbrellas and the feel of it on my face and bare legs.  Frederick Buechner
• The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans. Sherwood Smith
• The sound of the rain needs no translation. Alan Watts

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… and can make the indoors seem snugger and more homely

• I loved the rain as a child. I loved the sound of it on the leaves of trees and roofs and window panes and umbrellas and the feel of it on my face and bare legs.  I loved the hiss of rubber tires on rainy streets and the flip-flop of windshield wipers.  I loved the smell of wet grass and raincoats and the shaggy coats of dogs. A rainy day was a special day for me in a sense that no other kind of day was–a day when the ordinariness of things was suspended with ragged skies drifting to the color of pearl and dark streets turning to dark rivers of reflected light and even people transformed somehow as the rain drew them closer by giving them something to think about together, to take common shelter from, to complain of and joke about in ways that made them more like friends than it seemed to me they were on ordinary sunny days.  But more than anything, I think, I loved rain for the power it had to make indoors seem snugger and safer and a place to find refuge in from everything outdoors that was un-home, unsafe.  I loved rain for making home seem home more deeply. Frederick Buechner
• The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you’d just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency. Susan Allen Toth
• Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet. Jeff Melvoin
• Can’t you see that it’s just raining? There ain’t no need to go outside.  Jack Johnson
• How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. William Faulkner
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Rain can be healing

• Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever. Michael W. Smith
• Rain has healing powers. It can wash away your worries. And cleanse your soul.
• I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Douglas Coupland, Life After God
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Rain can refresh

• But the true lover of rain…. has a deep inner enjoyment of the rain, as rain, and his sense of its beauty drinks it in as thirstily as does the drinking earth. It refreshes and cools his heart and brain; he longs to go forth into the fields, to feel its steady stream, to scent its fragrance; to stand under some heavy-foliaged chestnut-tree, and hear the rushing music on the crowded leaves. John Richard Vernon

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Get out into the rain …

• Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.  Let the rain sing you a lullaby.  Langston Hughes
• Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. Roger Miller
• I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.  Adeline Knapp
• A rainy day at the beach is better than sunny day at the office.
• Sometimes life gives us a cold and rainy day, so wear cute boots and remember to play.
• A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods. Rachel Carson

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… for to hate rain is to hate life

• Those who hate rain hate life. Dejan Stojanovic
• Some people feel the rain — others just get wet. Roger Miller
• A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods. Rachel Carson
• When it rains, it pours. You decide what comes down. Justin Uyehara
• You can dance in the storm. Don’t wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment. Israelmore Ayivor

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Let the rain kiss your face

• I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face. Katherine Mansfield
• A raindrop landing on your cheek is a kiss from someone that lives in heaven and is watching over you.
• Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.  Let the rain sing you a lullaby.  Langston Hughes
• Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder. Edwin Morgan

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Smell the rain

• Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. Ashley Smith

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Sing in the rain

• I’m singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I’m happy again. Arthur Freed
• Singing in the rain. I’m singing in the rain. And it’s such a fucking glorious feeling. David Levithan

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Dance in the rain

• Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky. Arna Bontemps
• For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain, it’s how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain. Joy Teolbert
• Life is not about getting through the storms, but about dancing in the rain. Bunny Armstrong
• Life isn’t finding shelter in the storm. It’s about learning to dance in the rain. Sherrilyn Kenyon
• Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
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Splash barefoot in rain puddles

• Walking through puddles is my favorite metaphor for life. Terri Guillemets
• A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it. C. Ferguson
• Always jump in the puddles! Always skip alongside the flowers. The only fights worth fighting are the pillow and food varieties. Terri Guillemets
• You can’t go splashing through puddles of happy without getting some of it on you. Becca Wilhite
• Never run in the rain with your socks on. Billie Joe Armstrong
• Never dance in a puddle when there’s a hole in your shoe (it’s always best to take your shoes off first). John D. Rhodes
• Fun,  Enjoyment,  Spontaneity

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If you must cry, cry in the rain

• Crying in the rain. No one sees your tears and your pain gets washed away. Elizabeth Bourgeret
• I love walking in the rain, ’cause then no-one knows I’m crying.
• I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying. Charles Chaplin
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Of course, rain has its drawbacks

• One can find so many pains when the rain is falling. John Steinbeck

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Rain can dampen the mood

• It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. Muriel Spark
• In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul. Jerzy Kosinski
• The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though the worst was over. Susane Colasanti
• The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour. Charles Dickens
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Sometimes the rain can bucket down…

• The rain descends with the enthusiasm of someone breaking bad news. V. Morton
• The rain fell like dead bullets. Scott Nicholson
• Rain hangs about the place, like a friendly ghost. if it’s not coming down in delicate droplets, then it’s in buckets; and if neither, it tends to lurk suspiciously in the atmosphere. Barbara Acton-Bond
• The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it showed the tearful leaves shivering and cowering together at the window, and tapping at it urgently, as if beseeching to be sheltered from the dismal night. Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

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… soaking you to the skin

• Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. Roger Miller
• One must know the so-called ‘lesson of a downpour.’ A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything. Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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Rain can keep you trapped indoors when you want to be out

• The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat
• Can’t you see that it’s just raining? There ain’t no need to go outside.  Jack Johnson
• Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz

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Rain can spoil a camping trip …

• It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. Dave Barry
• Whatever form it takes, camping is earthy, soul enriching and character building, and there can be few such satisfying moments as having your tent pitched and the smoke rising from your campfire as the golden sun sets on the horizon– even if it’s just for a fleeting moment before the rain spoils everything. Pippa Middleton
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… and a picnic

• If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer’s crop, who are we to say it shouldn’t rain? Tom Barrett

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Rain is most common in winter …

• October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• In winter, when the dismal rain comes down in slanting lines, and wind, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines. Alexander Smith
• The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day’s last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night. Scott Fitzgerald
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… but comes also in spring …

• April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. S. Eliot
• Not being changed by prayer is sort of life standing in the middle of a spring rain without getting wet. It’s hard to stand in the center of God’s acceptance and love without getting it all over you. Steve Brown
• Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns and shadow of April showers. Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens
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… and autumn …

• After the first autumn rains, how inimitable the beauty of days—the fall colors, not yet faded, washed out, in the winter deluge, but dripping, glistening, every crystal drop refracting the hue it trickles over. Running, draining color, brighter before the soil takes back again the positive red and yellow and blue to weave into the misty textures of spring. Virginia Garland
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… and summer

• How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree. John Clare
• Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. Langston Hughes
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Rain is a fertile metaphor for life

• If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
• The drowning man is not troubled by rain. Proverb
• They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say ‘Shit, it’s raining! Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
• Rain drops are not the ones who bring the clouds. Sorin Cerin
• It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. George Eliot
• Metaphors to live by

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Just as life contains sunshine, there will be days of rain too …

• For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain, it’s how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain. Joey Tolbert
• If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning. Kahlil Gibran
• If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm. Frank Lane
• Just as in nature, lives will have days of sunshine and days of rain – and the trick is to learn to dance in the rain
• Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine. Mario Fernandez
• Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
• Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud. Samuel Johnson
• I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it’s just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.  Ray Bradbury
• Sunshine,  Adversity

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… for into each life, some rain must fall

• Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. Seneca
• Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state – not appearing to fill Longfellow’s measure: ‘Into each life, some rain must fall.’ Mary Todd
• These are the seasons of emotion and like the winds they rise and fall…Upon us all a little rain must fall. Led Zeppelin

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Rain falls alike on all

• The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him. Mark Twain
• Rain does not fall on one roof alone. Proverb

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Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain

• For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain, it’s how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain. Joy Teolbert
• Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass…it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
• Life is not about getting through the storms, but about dancing in the rain. Bunny Armstrong
• Life isn’t finding shelter in the storm. It’s about learning to dance in the rain. Sherrilyn Kenyon
• When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences; we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it. Joan Marques
• Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
• Dancing, Optimism,  Cheerfulness

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Remember that the sunshine always follows the rain eventually

• In our lives there is bound to come some pain, surely as there are storms and falling rain; just believe that the one who holds the storms will bring the sun.
• The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday’s sneer and yesterday’s frown can never come over again. Charles Kingsley
• It may be stormy now, but remember it won’t rain forever.
• The rain will stop, the night will end. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.  Mandy Hale
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Remember that without the rain, there would be no rainbows

• It takes both rain and sunshine to make a Rainbow.
• The only way to see a rainbow is to look through the rain.
• If you want the rainbow, you’ve got to put up with the rain. Dolly Parton
• The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. John Vance Cheney
• Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear.
• Everyone wants happiness, no one wants pain, but you can’t make a rainbow without a little rain.
• When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars.
• And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. Gilbert K. Chesterton
• It takes both rain and sunshine to make a Rainbow.
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Focus on the sunshine today rather than the rain tomorrow

• Don’t sit under an umbrella waiting for it to rain.
• I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today. Rae Foley
• If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine. Morris West
• Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren’t enjoying today’s sunshine. William Feather
• Worry pulls tomorrow’s cloud over today’s sunshine.
• Make hay while the sun shines. Miguel de Cervantes
• But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun. The Beatles
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Rain can be a metaphor for love

• Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive. Paulo Coelho
• The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket. Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweethear
• If love is shelter, I’m going to walk in the rain.
• Our love is like the misty rain that falls softly, but floods the river… African Proverb
• Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust’s effect is tempest after sun; Love’s gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust’s winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeit’s not, Lust like a glutton dies, Love is all truth, Lust full. William Shakespeare
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Rain can be a metaphor for tears

• Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. Charles Dickens
• …smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter. Rumi
• The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. John Vance Cheney
• Tears are like rain. They loosen up our soil so we can grow in different directions.
• Tears are the rain of life. Nothing grows without water.
• Rain falls because the clouds can no longer handle the weight. Tears fall because the heart can no longer handle the pain.
• Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. Hosea Ballou
• Tears are Summer showers to the soul. Alfred Austin
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Rain can be a metaphor for pain and sorrow

• “Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul. John Green
• In our lives there is bound to come some pain, surely as there are storms and falling rain; just believe that the one who holds the storms will bring the sun.
• A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins. Gustave Flaubert
• It didn’t rain for you, maybe, but it always rains for me. The sky shatters and rains shards of glass. Tablo, Pieces of You
• My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. Robert Frost
• If I were standing right beside her, I probably would have heard her heart breaking. It would have sounded like the cracking of a wooden bat connecting with a baseball. No, that was too clean of a break. It would have sounded like rain from a powerful thunderstorm pounding on a tin roof. Millions of drops relentlessly pounding away on the surface until it shattered into billions of tiny pieces. Pieces Emily couldn’t put back together by herself. Lindsay Paige
• Pain,  Sadness

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Rain can be a metaphor for pessimism and negativity

• I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin. Leonard Cohen
• I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will. Clint Eastwood
• Pessimism,  Negativity

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Rain can be a metaphor for adversity

• Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring. Chinese Proverbs
• In the hour of adversity be not without hope For crystal rain falls from black clouds. Persian Proverb
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Rain can be a metaphor for criticism and disapproval

• Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
• Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots. Frank A. Clark
• It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It’s like disapproving of rain. Francis Maude
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Rain can be a metaphor for acceptance

• Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards. Vladimir Nabokov
• The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• It is no use to grumble and complain; It’s just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain – Why, rain’s my choice. James Whitcomb Riley
• One must know the so-called ‘lesson of a downpour.’ A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything. Yamamoto Tsunetomo
• You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it. Denzel Washington
• Acceptance

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Rain can be a metaphor for virtues like mercy, humour, persistence and friendship

• The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. William Shakespeare
• Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. Langston Hughes
• The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you cannot get out of them a drop of water. So you cannot get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
• The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by often falling. Lucretius
• To meet an old friend in a distant country is like the delight of rain after a long drought. Chinese Proverbs
• Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. Henry Ward Beecher
• Mercy,  Humour,  Perseverance,  Friendship

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Rain can be a metaphor for vices like greed and boasting

• The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. Zeno
• Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of gifts he does not give. Bible
• Greed,  Pride

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Rain provides spiritual metaphors too

• 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 proof of rain is in the wetness of the ground; the proof of devotion is in the peace the aspirant has attained. Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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Don’t allow anyone to rain on your parade

• Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces. Og Mandino
• People can rain on your parade only if you let them.
• And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. Gilbert K. Chesterton
• No person has the right to rain on your dreams. Marian Wright Edelman

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• May you always have work for your hands to do. May your pockets hold always a coin or two.  May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.  May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.  May the hand of a friend always be near you.  And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.  Irish Blessings
• May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand. Irish Blessings
• Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. Langston Hughes
• …I don’t just wish you rain, Beloved – I wish you the beauty of storms… John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
• May you always have walls for the winds, a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire, laughter to cheer you, those you love near you and all your heart might desire. Irish Blessings

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• I wanted to make love in the rain, but owing to unfavorable (or, rather favorable) weather conditions, I took to the shower as a suitable substitute. Jarod Kintz
• Never run in the rain with your socks on. Billie Joe Armstrong
• Never dance in a puddle when there’s a hole in your shoe (it’s always best to take your shoes off first). John D. Rhodes
• There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting. George Carlin
• A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning. James Dickey
• Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. Dwight Morrow
• It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. Dave Barry
• It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain. Mark Twain
• The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain. Jane Bryant Quinn
• The closest thing you will ever come to a brain storm is a light drizzle.
• There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends. Arnot Sheppard
• A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. Mark Twain
• The mother-in-law came round last week. It was absolutely pouring down. So I opened the door and I saw her there and I said, ‘Mother, don’t just stand there in the rain. Go home. Les Dawson
• I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? Douglas Adams
• My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. H. Auden
• He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.” Douglas Jerrold
• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day – and another, in case it doesn’t rain. Mae West
• If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is “God is crying.” And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is “Probably because of something you did.” Jack Hand
• Washing your best clothes on Tuesday so they’ll be almost completely dry for the weekend. Rob Temple, (Very British Problems)
• Those that dislike cats will be carried to the cemetery in the rain. Dutch Proverb
• The best time to listen to a politician is when he’s on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he’s exhausted. Then he doesn’t lie. Theodore H. White
• The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. Colin Wilson
• After rain comes rained, look in the dictionary. Loesje
• A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins
• A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. Frederick II
• I can make it rain any time I want to. All I need to do is wash my car.
• I don’t consider myself a pessimist; I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain and I feel soaked to the skin. Leonard Cohen
• I’ve put something aside for a rainy day. It’s an umbrella.
• I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. Maya Angelou
• It only rains straight down. God doesn’t do windows. Rod Schmidt
• It was raining cats and dogs and I fell in a poodle. Charles ‘Chic’ Murray
• Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz
• Now there’s three things you can do in a baseball game; you can win or you can lose or it can rain. Casey Stengel
• Some people feel the rain – others just get wet. Roger Miller
• Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
• Why don’t sheep shrink when it rains? George Carlin
• You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer. Harold Eugene ‘Hal’ Roach

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