W Quotes
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“Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person's property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.”
Source: The Metamorphoses of Ovid
“Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.”
“Water boils most fiercely just before it disappears. And so it is, evidently, with human affairs.”
Source: Splinterlands
“Water can be a blessing or a curse. Too often we make conservation about saving a whale, a coral reef or a marsh. But we don't make it about saving life. The one thing that every single human being has in common is our need for water.”
“Water can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick Flynn”
Source: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
“Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
“Water can neither be created nor be destroyed but can be transferred from one form to another form”
“Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.”
“Water carries all the stories. That is why we are made up of water. Our bodies store one continuous story about us, the story of our first ancestors to the present moment.
That is why we carry the battle of the dark and the light.”
Source: Lyra's Kitchen: A Culinary Chronicle of Simmering Secrets
“Water colours are wet colours in water.”
“Water conservation goes hand in hand with education. Teaching people that if you literally run the water while you brush your teeth - we go through 602 million gallons a day of waste in the United States because people are used to hearing the water run while they brush their teeth.”
“Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“Water continued to explain about the life of the tree. “Trees can be as big below the ground as they are above it. And there are mother trees in the forests—these are the oldest trees. They have the most connections with the other trees. Trees communicate with each other and look after the young trees by sending them nutrients through their roots.”
Source: Joey and His Friend Water
“Water covers two-thirds of the Earth. I cover the rest.”
“Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs.”
Source: The glorious world of golf
“Water creates so much beauty, life and mystery.”
Source: A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
“Water does not force its way.”
“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.”
Source: The Penelopiad
“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”
“Water doesn’t shape like clay when you move it with your hands. I've spent a lot of time swimming, and none of my motion art stayed in place. All my aqua sculpting rippled into the future, never to be seen again.”
Source: The Lewis and Clark of The Ozarks
“Water doesn't hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you're fine.”
“Water drops erode mountains not because of their size, but their persistence.”
“Water everywhere, falling in thundering cataracts, singular drops, and draping sheets. Kellhus paused next to one of the shining braziers, peered beneath the bronze visage that loomed orange and scowling over his father, watched him lean back into absolute shadow.
“You came to the world,” unseen lips said, “and you saw that Men were like children.”
Lines of radiance danced across the intervening waters.
“It is their nature to believe as their fathers believed,” the darkness continued. “To desire as they desired … Men are like wax poured into moulds: their souls are cast by their circumstances. Why are no Fanim children born to Inrithi parents? Why are no Inrithi children born to Fanim parents? Because these truths are made, cast by the particularities of circumstance. Rear an infant among Fanim and he will become Fanim. Rear him among Inrithi and he will become Inrithi …
“Split him in two, and he would murder himself.”
Without warning, the face re-emerged, water-garbled, white save the black sockets beneath his brow. The action seemed random, as though his father merely changed posture to relieve some vagrant ache, but it was not. Everything, Kellhus knew, had been premeditated. For all the changes wrought by thirty years in the Wilderness, his father remained Dûnyain …
Which meant that Kellhus stood on conditioned ground.
“But as obvious as this is,” the blurred face continued, “it escapes them. Because they cannot see what comes before them, they assume nothing comes before them. Nothing. They are numb to the hammers of circumstance, blind to their conditioning. What is branded into them, they think freely chosen.
So they thoughtlessly cleave to their intuitions, and curse those who dare question. They make ignorance their foundation. They confuse their narrow conditioning for absolute truth.”
He raised a cloth, pressed it into the pits of his eyes. When he withdrew it, two rose-coloured stains marked the pale fabric. The face slipped back into the impenetrable black.
“And yet part of them fears. For even unbelievers share the depth of their conviction. Everywhere, all about them, they see examples of their own self-deception … ‘Me!’ everyone cries. ‘I am chosen!’ How could they not fear when they so resemble children stamping their feet in the dust? So they encircle themselves with yea-sayers, and look to the horizon for confirmation, for some higher sign that they are as central to the world as they are to themselves.”
He waved his hand out, brought his palm to his bare breast. “And they pay with the coin of their devotion.”
Source: The Thousandfold Thought
“Water finds the easiest path down a mountain.”
“Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life.”
Source: The Energy of Prayer: How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“Water flows from high places to low places. That is the nature of gravity. Emotions also seem to act according to gravity. When in the presence of someone with whom you have a bond, and to whom you have entrusted your feelings, it is hard to lie and get away with it. The truth just wants to come flowing out. This is especially the case when you are trying to hide your sadness or vulnerability. It is much easier to conceal sadness from a stranger, or from someone you don’t trust. Hirai saw Kei as a confidante with whom she could share anything. The emotional gravity was strong. Kei was able to accept anything—forgive anything—that Hirai let flow out. A single kind word from Kei could cut the cords of tension that ran through her.”
Source: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
“Water flows uphill towards money.”
Source: Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
“Water for me is so essential, like swimming.”
“Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only everlasting source of continuous being.”
“Water from clay pipes is much more wholesome than that which is conducted through lead pipes, because lead is found to be harmful for the reason that white lead is derived from it, and this is said to be hurtful to the human system.”
“Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.”
“Water gave the earth life.
Don't forget that!”
“Water generates electrical and magnetic energy inside each and every cell of the body--it provides the power to live.”
“Water goes hand in hand with food, just like children and crying.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“Water gushing out of thousands of springs at different places cannot move the wheels of a big engine to carry out very heavy tasks. But the channeled flow of the same water in the bed of a stream will, however, be irresistible and can become a source of tremendous energy.”
“Water had been pliant, fire eager, but earth demanded a mutual understanding—a bond.”
Source: Arya and the Guardians of Azhira
“Water harbors mosquitoes when it sits too long — don’t let your thoughts do the same.”
“Water has a memory and carries within it our thoughts and prayers. As you yourself are water, no matter where you are, your prayers will be carried to the rest of the world.”
“Water has always been a large part of my life, so for me now, being a father with another child on the way, I'm just teaching some of the small things I've been able to learn - and passing that onto the younger generation. Small things like turning your faucet off when you brush your teeth, not taking a 30-minute shower when you really don't need to. So I want to teach the younger generation to spread the message and make a difference. I'm almost more excited to do this than I was to swim.”
“Water has always been something that I care deeply about, and I'm very aware of its limits on this planet. If we don't change our behavior around water, water will become as valuable as oil. That is a given. When people don't understand that, I'm surprised.”
“Water has memory. Depending on how you treat it, what kind of thoughts and emotions you generate, accordingly it behaves in your body.”
“Water has no effect on fake flowers.”
Source: Crosspaths Multitude to Success
“Water has no mouth, but swallows many.
Light has no hands, but touches many.
Wind has no feet, but carries many.
Darkness has no teeth, but devours many.”
“Water has nowhere to hide in the ocean. Light has nowhere to hide in the sun. Air has nowhere to hide in the world. Nature has nowhere to hide in the universe.”
“Water has to be the right temperature,
For it to appease our human thirst.
Too cold, it'll give you frost-bite,
Too hot, and it'll burn your throat.
Intellect has to be rightly moderated,
For it to push mind and society upward.
Too little, it facilitates superstition,
Too much, and it turns the mind cold.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society.... It became part of the moral and mental legacy parents passed on to their children.”
“Water holds more than we can ever think. The rejection of it is the rejection of life. Water deserves our worship cause in it dwells the One that owns life.”
“Water holes are sacrificial waters where you make a steady gift of your pride and high-priced balls.”
“Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.”
Source: Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink
“Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi