Best flow & streams Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.”

Source: The Art of War

“When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither is the ultimate solution, simply because floods are caused by the flow of water downhill. If the hills are wooded, that flow is checked. If there is a swamp at the foot of the hills, the swamp sponges up most of the excess water, restores some of it to the underground water supply and feeds the remainder slowly into the streams. Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.”

“The 'stream' we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us.”

Humans Sometimes Science Courses Water Flow Accounts Valuable Treasure Block Streams Defeated Get Over Advancement Reactionaries Human Intelligence Beavers Advancement Of Science

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps. Parch not your life with dry despair; The stream of hope flow everywhere-- So under every sky and star, Just drop your bucket where you are.”

Opportunity Stars Sky Despair Flow Ships Uplifting Streams Dry Leap Where You Are Buckets Afar

Author:Sam Walter Foss

“There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would be vain indeed to look for a similar one in the past of any other European country.”

Looks Country Whole Would Be Past Humanity Powerful Pure Flow Tolerance Generosity Vain Streams Broads European Countries

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.”

Thinking Lying Values Silence Break Solitude Flow Streams Wilderness Cedars

Author:John Muir

“Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to your Self. Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prision. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. It will not lead you astray. Let the beauty you seek be what you do.”

World Inspirational Made Soul Self Attention Vision This World Ocean Flow Rivers Paid Burden Made It Your Soul Streams Rise Above

Author:Rumi

“In principle the first thing on the stream would be my birth certificate, a little electronic version of that, my parents would put my school records, health records, whatever of their child onto the stream. And the stream continues to flow forward through time.”

Firsts Children Littles Would Be School Parent Principles Records Birth Flow Versions Streams Rough Times Certificates Birth Certificate

Author:David Gelernter

“We are all pilgrims on an elusive and endless road... Despite our attempts to build lives on stone foundations, our spirits continuously flow. Endless streams of consciousness ripple through our minds.”

Mind Spirit Consciousness Journey Flow Stones Foundation Endless Despite Streams Elusive Pilgrim Ripple Stream Of Consciousness Endless Roads

Author:Anthony Lawlor

“Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner.”

Knows Dream Used Watches Ambition Flow Rivers Forgotten Streams Boredom Recalls Conservatism Pastures Greener

Author:Van Morrison

“To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.”

Stupid Willing Mouths Rain Flow Rivers Stones Streams Thrones Spills Rubies Jackasses

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history--hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.”

Source: Romola: Top Novelist Focus

“The blood, the fountain whence the spirits flow The generous stream that waters every part, And motion, vigor, and warm life conveys To every particle that moves or lives.”

Moving Spirit Water Blood Flow Warm Generous Streams Fountain Particles Vigor

Book:The Art of Preserving Health: a Poem. Price Four Shillings Sewed

Source: The Art of Preserving Health: a Poem. Price Four Shillings Sewed

“Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.”

Thinking Feels Light Strong Flow Currents Surface Streams Shallow Obscure Below The Surface

Book:St. Paul and Protestantism: With Other Essays

Source: St. Paul and Protestantism: With Other Essays

“It's so silly isn't it? how we grown men take up trout angling not simply to pursue trout but to find some place, some special place, where we feel at ease. a place to belong. Forces, not forms, persist: energy is spent and endures; time does not tick, it flows. God loves a man that smells of trout water and mountain meadows. Which way's heaven, you suppose? Follow the trail and keep close to the stream.”

“I write incessantly, I'm very productive, I write for a dozen publications and blogs and websites. A lot of very hardcore political stuff. I write a weekly feature. I express myself. But when time comes to make music [with the] same absolutely unleashing of total honesty zero inhibitions, it just flows like a stream of conscientiousness because I will not be silenced no matter what my point might be.”

Writing Matter Might Political Stuff Honesty Flow No Matter What Features Streams Productive Zero Dozen Blogs Website Publication Hardcore Incessantly Inhibitions Unleashing Conscientiousness

Author:Ted Nugent

“In Proverbs we read: 'He that winneth souls is wise.' If any man, women, or child by a godly life and example can win one soul to God, his life will not have been a failure. He will have outshone all the mighty men of his day, because he will have set a stream in motion that will flow on and on forever and ever.”

Ifs Men Children Has Beens Soul Winning Forever Wise Example Flow Streams Godly Godly Life

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd; The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode.”

Heart Sweet Flow Fortune Peaceful Streams Charm Contentment Obscure Unnoticed Gleam Abode

Author:James Gates Percival

“Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing, and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places, till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose.”

Earth Sides Prayer Blessing Flow Rose Streams Dry Wilderness Showers Supplies Vapor Ascending

Author:A. B. Simpson

“The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.”

May Mean Long Moments Fall Hours Memories Flow Endure Instant Streams Passages Abyss Oblivion Confined Indestructible No Memory

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.”

Heart Grief Flow Depth Streams Inward Fountain

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the stream of consciousness that we call 'I' is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd.”

Humans Made Together Individual Natural Animal Consciousness Groups Elements Flow Individuality Streams Lions Tribes Monkeys Restless Shifting Herds Stream Of Consciousness

Author:Anna Louise Strong

“The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.”

May Littles Feelings Body Remember Water Memories Flow Filled Fingers Bones Flesh Cells Streams Touched Joints Sponges

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Life is a continual flow of events, streaming in from the universal stream of consciousness in such a way that it exactly matches our own stream of consciousness.”

Way Life Is Consciousness Events Flow Universal Streams Streaming Stream Of Consciousness

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“The handling of our forests as a continuous, renewable resource means permanent employment and stability to our country life. The forests are also needed for mitigating extreme climatic fluctuations, holding the soil on the slopes, retaining the moisture in the ground, and controlling the equable flow of water in our streams.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4

“Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.”

Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin

“I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.”

Knows World Silence Flow Surrender Streams Repose Tranquil

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.”

Littles Courses Flow Streams Moderation

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“Well, Pa, a woman can change better than a man. A man lives, sort of, well, in jerks. A baby's born or somebody dies and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream. Little eddies and waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. A woman looks at it that way.”

Men Way Wells Looks Littles Dies Women Born Loses Baby Flow Rivers Streams Farms Jerk Waterfalls

Author:Nunnally Johnson

“I am beginning to understand that the stream the scientists are studying is not just a little creek. It's a river of energy that moves across regions in great geographic cycles. Here, life and death are only different points on a continuum. The stream flows in a circle through time and space, turning death into life across coastal ecosystems, as it has for more than a million years. But such streams no longer flow in the places where most of us live.”

“When you put a great big obstacle (your feeling of unworthiness), in front of a running stream, it's not like it's going to stop the flow of the divine force. The divine force will just go around your unworthiness and flow someplace else.”

Feelings Bigs Running Force Fronts Divine Flow Obstacles Streams

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.”

Ifs Men Kind Long Has Beens Animal Sadness Sad Conscious Flow Streams Encounters Shock Nature Of Man Obstruction

Book:On the Suffering of the World

Source: On the Suffering of the World

“It is unnatural that a pure stream should flow from a foul fountain its vices are but a continuation of the vices of its origin. A man of moral honor and good political principles, cannot submit to the mean drudgery and disgraceful arts, by which such elections are carried. To be a successful candidate, he must be destitute of the qualities that constitute a just legislator: and being thus disciplined to corruption it is not to be expected that the representative should be better than the man.”

“Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement. That is to say, one can feel a sense of flow in the stream of consciousness not dissimilar to the sense of flow in the movement of matter in general. May not thought itself thus be a part of reality as a whole? But then, what could it mean for one part of reality to 'know' another, and to what extent would this be possible?”

Thinking Knows Feels May Mean Matter Whole Shows Reality Process Attention Consciousness Movement Flow Careful Streams Stream Of Consciousness

Author:David Bohm

“We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.”

Joy Flow Prosperity Plenty Streams Serving Unending Service Culture

Author:Charles Fillmore

“In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.”

Men Wells Soul States Water Grace Tree Flow Rivers Streams Rising Rooted Crystals

Book:The Interior Castle, or the Mansions

Source: The Interior Castle, or the Mansions

“The river is motion, turmoil, rage. As the river flows, it wonders what it would be like to be so still, to take a breath, to rest. But the rock will always wonder what lies around the bend in the stream.”

Stills Would Be Lying Wonder Rocks Flow Rivers Breaths Rage Streams Turmoil Around The Bend

Book:The Rock and the River

Source: The Rock and the River

“How much is enough? How much does anyone require? Can I be both kind and tough? Can I put faith before desire? Right now, for all time, I vow to try . . . I volunteer to be simple, I volunteer to love, Every living thing like a mountain stream that flows out o'er the land. I volunteer for the journey from here to heaven's gate. I will do my part I place my heart in Your gracious hands . . . How then shall we live? Let us live lightly as a feather. How much shall we give? Let us give everything, together One heart, one mind, all humankind... I volunteer.”

“From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult, every loss of consolation, and every sorry, from whatever direction they may come, patiently, with joy.”

May Self Joy Loss Humility Bears Flow Mere Sorry Streams Insult Reports Self Knowledge Offense Consolation

Author:St. Catherine of Siena

“We always monitor the flow of information, intelligence, threat streams to see whether we have any indication there's some imminent. We work hard to identify potential cells and disrupt them. This is one of the reasons we put so much emphasis on intelligence gathering.”

Hard Reason Information Hard Work Flow Threat Cells Streams Emphasis Gathering Indication Intelligence Gathering

Author:Michael Chertoff

“And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.”

Hands Courses Blood Flow Vain Streams

Author:Aeschylus

“Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.”

“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”

Men World Made Hands White Mystery Becoming Mountain Standing Flow All Things Destruction Patterns Edges Currents Streams Maps Brooks Polished Moss Mazes Amber Trout Road Maps Fins Wonder And Mystery

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.”

Wells Feelings Passion Force Depends Flow Madness Calm Currents Well Being Impulse Height Streams Barriers Flood Arrested Spills

Book:Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it passes through the cabin, through the wreck; washing the cliffs and shores of the island, it runs northward and southward to the ends of the earth. Soft and cold, dark and unending, it beats against my eyelids, against the skin of my face.”

Ends Body Running Earth Faces Dark Cold Beats Mouths Flow Skins Breaths Islands Streams Shore Cliffs Wrecks Washing Interruptions Unending Cabins Eyelids

Book:Foe: A Novel

Source: Foe: A Novel

“Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.”

Ifs Want Doe Art Made Creative Clear Stupid Divine Willing Mouths Rain Flow Rivers Stones Block Manage Streams Dry Paradox Thrones Spills Rubies Creative Life Censoring Jackasses Dry Up

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our view, We only watch their glad, early start. Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose; Their widening scope, Their distant employ, We never shall know. And the stream as it flows Sweeps them away, Each one is gone Ever beyond into infinite ways. We alone stay While years hurry on, The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays.”

Knows Way Years Heart Stills Ends Dream Past Life Is Joy Lost Views Watches Gone Flower Flow Infinite Rose Glad Opening Streams Scope Floats Fragrance Petals

Book:A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

Source: A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

“Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed in this hidden truth the way other men believed in God or love, believed that truth was in fact always hidden, that the apparent, the overt, was invariably a kind of lie.”

Ifs Men World Way Kind Sometimes Enough Facts Body Lying Water Bed Flow Moved Tiny Rhythm Streams Bounce Women's Bodies Woodland Hidden Truth

Author:Salman Rushdie

“So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.”

Source: The End of the Affair

“The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp shall be restrung, His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore re-sung. The woods shall wave on mountains. And grass beneath the sun; His wealth shall flow in fountains And the rivers golden run. The streams shall run in gladness, The lakes shall shine and burn, And sorrow fail and sadness At the Mountain-king’s return!”

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