Water Quotes - Page 44

One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?

Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."

Be as eager to break your own will as the thirsty stag is to drink of the refreshing waters.

In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.

Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.

Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time.

Life is like pouring water into a Coca- Cola bottle; if you're the least bit scared you can't do it

In our consciousness, there are many negative seeds and also many positive seeds. The practice is to avoid watering the negative seeds, and to identify and water the positive seeds every day.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.

We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.

Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.

I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.

Environmentali sm isn't a spectator sport. You actually have to stand up and demand that we be vigilant in protecting our air and water.

Its from the deep waters that we come. And we are heartfelt and treacherous like those waters. We come with an unflinching devotion to the mystical and to God - representing life and embracing death.

I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!

It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows.

A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

To live by a large river is to be kept in the heart of things.

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.