Alan Watts Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Water Quotes

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

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Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

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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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A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state Empties itself, as dot an inland brook Into the main of waters.

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There is no small pleasure in pure water.

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The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe.

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Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

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Obscure, like muddy waters.

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Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

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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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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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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Years Quotes , Water Quotes

As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

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Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

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Let righteousness cover the earth like the water cover the sea!

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

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I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.

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

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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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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Perfect Quotes , Water Quotes

"The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.

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

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