Alan Watts Quotes, Hands Quotes, Water Quotes

The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.

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How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Travel Quotes , Water Quotes

Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Water 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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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Water Quotes

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

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Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Positivity Quotes , Water Quotes

A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

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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.

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Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Water Quotes , Bird Quotes

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

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Tags : Bob Marley Quotes , Sea Quotes , Water Quotes

There is no small pleasure in pure water.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Water Quotes , Small Pleasures Quotes

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Water Quotes , Answers Quotes

If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist 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

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

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

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Tags : Al Alvarez Quotes , Men Quotes , Water Quotes

Glory is like a circle in the water

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

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The depths of the sea are only water after all.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Sea Quotes , Water Quotes

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Fire Quotes , Water Quotes