Laozi Quotes, Water Quotes, Taoism Quotes

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

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And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

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There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.

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It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

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Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface.

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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

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There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Sea Quotes , Water Quotes

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Wine Quotes , Water Quotes

Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Water Quotes

Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

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Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Water Quotes , Reason Quotes

Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

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The waters of the Ganga are roaring among his matted locks.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Water Quotes , Roaring Quotes

There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Strong Quotes , Water Quotes

Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Garden Quotes , Water Quotes

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Dark Quotes , Water Quotes

...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Water Quotes

We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

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The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Sea Quotes , Water Quotes