"Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them." ― Jean Paul Topic(s): Nature More From Jean Paul "Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm." "Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it." "Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life." More In Nature "Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative."― H. G. Wells "I think having nature be a part of people’s lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger."― Ethan Hawke "It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness."― Taylor Caldwell