Bodhidharma Quotes, Order Quotes, Water Quotes

In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

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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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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Freedom 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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A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

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When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

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Dripping water hollows out a stone

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The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

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Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.

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Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.

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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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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Vegetables Quotes , Water Quotes

The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.

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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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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Water Quotes

What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Water Quotes , Swim Quotes

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Peace Quotes , Water Quotes

Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

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There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.

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I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.

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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Ions Quotes , Water Quotes

If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.

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