“Now, if we understand what unlucky persons are, we shall see that they are to be shunned, or that we are to consort with them only out of kindness or from sympathy, but without joining our interests with theirs; for they are persons who are not harmonious with the condition of things around them, and are as much at issue with life as a bird who should try to live in the water, or a fish to float in the air.” IfsShouldTryingPersonsInterestWaterKindnessIssuesAirConditionsBirdLuckFishesFloatsJoiningHarmoniousUnlucky Author:James Vila Blake
“More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.” RunningWaterKindnessFineForgivenessFlowRiversIceLocked Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly - in a good way.” ThinkingWayWaterSimpleKindnessVirtueAspirationGood WayGatewaysDeep Water Author:George Saunders
“Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.” FearUnderstandingWaterQualityCompassionKindnessAngerPositivitySeedsResolutionLoving KindnessWin Win Author:Nhat Hanh
“All things are connected, like the blood that runs in your family "The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father." 1854 The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. You must give to the rivers the kindness you would give to any brother.” GivingChildrenRunningFatherVoiceWaterKindnessBloodBrotherAll ThingsRiversOur ChildrenConnectedOur FamilyThirstQuench Author:Chief Seattle
“Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.” KindMadeHelpingSidesWaterKindnessHelping OthersBoatMotiveBe KindVolunteer Author:Eric Hoffer
“In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle - this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.” KnowsWorldWayGivingHardAsksStrongWaterKindnessThis WorldEqualWeakOvercomingGentleUnyielding Author:Laozi
“You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be sweeter.” WaterKindnessLoving KindnessContainers Author:Michael Josephson
“We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond” InspirationalNeedsWisdomActionSpiritualPeaceWaterChangeCommunityCompassionFamilyKindnessShareBuddhismFriendsWise WordsWords Of WisdomCreatingEmpathyTransformationSpreadWarmInner PeaceBuddhistDevelopingOur FamilySympathyFamily And FriendsMonkMaking ChangesDroppingWise Man Once SaidFinding PeacePondsRippleTibetanPebblesSpiritual TransformationPeace WithinRipple Effect Author:Dalai Lama