Quotes for: water

Quotes about water

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Leonardo da Vinci /

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Alan Watts /

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Our deeds, our feelings, our thoughts, and our sensations just happen of themselves, as the rain falls and the water flows along the valley.
Alan Watts - In My Own Way /

Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci /

Water is the driving force of all nature.

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The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings /

Time itself flows on in constant motion, just like a river. For neither the river nor the swift hour can stop its course; but, as wave is pushed on by wave, and as each wave is both impelled by that behind and itself impels the wave in front, so time both flees and follows and is ever new. For that which once existed is no more, and that which was not has come to be; and so the whole round of motion is gone through again.
Publius Ovidius Naso - Metamorphoses /

Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.
Publius Ovidius Naso /

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Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word 'water' is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.
Alan Watts /

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

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They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

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The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau

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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark Twain