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  • Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents.

    Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco
  • Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.

    Patience   Hands   Water  
    Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.43, Canongate Books
  • Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.

  • Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

    "Jerry Seinfeld: Heard the one about the reunion?". Interview with Stephen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2009.
  • Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

    "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.
  • Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, and the momentary elements of our flesh and bone pass out of our body every day with our excreta. We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves

    Air   Rivers   Water  
    Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.96, Da Capo Press
  • For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports.

    Rain   Science   Thinking  
    Sandra Postel (2014). “The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity”, p.184, Routledge
  • A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden's beauty and the birds singing. The stars will be watching us, and we will show them what it is to be a thin crescent moon. You and I unselfed, will be together, indifferent to idle speculation, you and I. The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar as we laugh together, you and I. In one form upon this earth, and in another form in a timeless sweet land.

    Love   Sweet   Stars  
    Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.19, Lulu.com
  • At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water of a river, life has its moments of drought and its moments of flood. Like the ever-changin cycle of the seasons, life has the soothing warmth of the summers and the piercing chill of its winters. But through it all, God walks with us. Never forget that God is able to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope, and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of inner peace.

    Summer   Religious   Dark  
  • Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

    Rain   Men   Rivers  
    'The Brook' (1855) l. 33
  • We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there.

    Rivers   Water   Pieces  
  • Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.

    Spiritual   Fall   Light  
  • The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

    Food   Yoga   Exercise  
  • An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an army avoids strength and strikes weakness.

    Art   War   Army  
    Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.33, Wordsworth Editions
  • IF YOUR OPPONENT strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly.

    Fire   Water   Opponents  
    Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.110, Shambhala Publications
  • Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

  • The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.

    Writing   Men   Air  
    Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.151, Univ of California Press
  • There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

    Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight

    Food   Smell   Water  
  • Only the flowing water is pure and sweet. Only the spinning top and the moving bicycle do not fall over. Rest is not found in irregular and purposeless motion, nor is it stagnation; all real and firm rest is to be sought in harmonious action.

    Sweet   Real   Moving  
  • Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances.

    Alphonse Karr, Rev. J. Wood (1855). “A Tour Round My Garden”, p.135
  • Running water never grows stale.

    Running   Water   Stale  
    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.180, Tuttle Publishing
  • Identity politics divides us. Fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations. The other, in nuances. One draws boundaries. The other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks. Fiction is flowing water.

    "The politics of fiction". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.
  • Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

    Art   Empty Mind   Water  
    "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.
  • A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant.

    Moving   Doors   Water  
  • We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message, and may be transmitted as a message.

    Rivers   Water   May  
    Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.96, Da Capo Press
  • Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.

    Fall   Drawing   Color  
  • I am asked why I live in the green mountains; I smile but reply not, for my heart is at rest. The flowing waters carry the image of the peach blossoms far, far away; there is an earth, there is a heaven, unknown to men.

    Heart   Men   Water  
  • How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

    Rivers   Water   Unity  
  • Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer.

    Prayer   Rain   Rocks  
    "Given". Book by Wendell Berry, 2005.
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