Alan Watts Quotes, Water Quotes, Mind Quotes

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

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...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

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Water Quotes

When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Math 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

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

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

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Water Quotes , Mind Quotes

As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Sea Quotes , Water Quotes

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Men Quotes , Water Quotes

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

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And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Water Quotes , Turns Quotes

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Fire Quotes , Water Quotes

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Water Quotes

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

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Water Quotes , Taoism Quotes

Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself.

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The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.

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Dripping water hollows out a stone

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Water Quotes

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Water Quotes , England 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