Best rivers & sun Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will.”

Heart Nature Sun Moon Rivers Work Out Woods Hills Streams Brotherhood Mystical Hollow Gaia

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“When we suddenly awake to the realization that there is no barrier, and never has been, one realizes that one is all things mountains, rivers, grasses, trees, sun, moon, stars, universe are all oneself. There is no longer a division or barrier between myself and others, no longer any feeling of alienation or fear there is nothing apart from oneself and therefore nothing to fear. Realizing this results in true compassion. Other people and things are not seen as apart from oneself but, on the contrary, as one's own body.”

People Has Beens Feelings Body Universe Stars Realizing Results Compassion Sun Tree Moon Mountain All Things Rivers Oneself Contrary Realization Grass Awake Barriers Division Alienation Sun Moon

Author:Bruce Lee

“Leaves glowing in the sun, zealous hum of bumblebees, From afar, from somewhere beyond the river, echoes of lingering voices And the unhurried sounds of a hammer gave joy not only to me. Before the five senses were opened, and earlier than any beginning They waited, ready, for all those who would call themselves mortals, So that they might praise, as I do, life, that is, happiness.”

Might Joy Sound Voice Sun Five Ready Rivers Praise Senses Mortals Echoes Hammers Glowing Afar Lingering Zealous Five Senses Bumblebees

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“And see the rivers how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life to endless sleep!”

Humans Sometimes Running Sleep Sun Journey Succeed Rivers Wave Various Woods Endless Human Life Shade Mead

Book:The Poems of J. D. The Life of J. D. by Dr. Johnson. The British Poets, Etc

Source: The Poems of J. D. The Life of J. D. by Dr. Johnson. The British Poets, Etc

“Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like.”

Giving Looks Helping Earth Night Sun Meditation Sea Rivers Angry Faults Tolerance Pity Generosity Modesty Tenderness Covering Furious Humbleness Generosity And Giving Giving Help

Author:Rumi

“Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth; sun, moon, and stars.”

Knows Mind Earth Stars Sun Moon Mountain Rivers Moon And Stars Sun Moon Sun Moon And Stars

Author:Dogen

“The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness. If you do, you will fall into a neutral kind of emptiness. Emptiness includes the sun, moon, stars, and planets, the great earth, mountains and rivers, all trees and grasses, bad people and good people, bad things and good things, heaven and hell; they are all in the midst of emptiness. The emptiness of human nature is also like this.”

Source: The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

“Noon-day sunshine cinema-ized the site, turning the bridge and the river into an over-exposed picture. Photographing it with my Instamatic 400 was like photographing a photograph. The sun became a monstrous light-bulb that projected a detached series of stills through my Instamatic into my eye.”

Stills Light Eye Sun Rivers Series Photograph Bridges Cinema Sunshine Exposed Site Monstrous Noon Detached Bulbs Light Bulb

Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

“All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.”

Men Courses Sun Sea Ocean Rivers Dazzling

Author:Simone Schwarz-Bart

“I know very well that the political classes have spread fear among the electorate: Without the euro, the sun will cease shining, the rivers will stop flowing, we will enter an ice age.”

Knows Wells Age Political Class Sun Rivers Shining Spread Cease Ice Euro Electorate Ice Age

Author:Marine Le Pen

“These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.”

People Has Beens Book Left Behinds Sun Teacher Tree Fields Bird Rivers Woods Setting Settings Herbs Crimson Inspiring Nature

Book:Anton Chekhov Short Stories v2: Classic Russia Literature

Source: Anton Chekhov Short Stories v2: Classic Russia Literature

“That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.”

People Thinking Years Country Night Sound Walks Sun Quiet Late Rain Rivers Empty Passing Passings Hills Autumn Twilight Closets Coal Midnight Fog Mist Noon Dusk Cellars Attics Pantry

Book:THE OCTOBER COUNTRY

Source: THE OCTOBER COUNTRY

“Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting. Sometimes you hear a distant refrain. What does it mean, you ask, who is singing? A childlike sun grows warm. A grandson and a great-grandson are born. You are led by the hand once again. The names of the rivers remain with you. How endless those rivers seem! Your fields lie fallow, The city towers are not as they were. You stand at the threshold mute.”

“...you find yourself studying the fine colors on the river, you feel wonder and awe at the setting of the sun, and you are filled with a hard, aching love for how the world could be and always should be, but now is not.”

World Feels Should Hard Wonder Sun Study Color Fine Rivers Filled Setting Settings Awe Finding Yourself

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die, fatly baffled in the sun.”

May Long Stills Dies Black Sun Clear Air Tree Months Red Rivers Hot Shrinks Crow Bananas Brooding Baffled Gorges Windowpane

Book:The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

“Now suzanne takes you hand And she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers From salvation army counters And the sun pours down like honey On our lady of the harbour And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers There are heroes in the seaweed There are children in the morning They are leaning out for love And they will lean that way forever While suzanne holds the mirror And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind And you know that she will trust you For shes touched your perfect body with her mind.”

“Back and forth she went each morning by the river, spring arriving once again; foolish, foolish spring, breaking open its tiny buds, and what she couldn’t stand was how—for many years, really—she had been made happy by such a thing. She had not thought she would ever become immune to the beauty of the physical world, but there you were. The river sparkled with the sun that rose, enough that she needed her sunglasses.”

World Years Made Enough Morning Sun Needed Spring Rivers Rose Foolish Tiny Back And Forth Immune Bud Arriving Sunglasses

Book:Olive Kitteridge: Fiction

Source: Olive Kitteridge: Fiction

“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!”

“Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.”

Soul Dream Night Stars Sun Rivers Rays Restless Melting Restlessness Siddhartha Twinkling Twinkling Stars

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky”.”

Mind Earth Realizing Sun Sky Moon Mountain Rivers Wide

Author:Lord Byron

“Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them.”

Earth Moving Stars Enjoy Sun Alive Sky Ocean All Things Rivers Thank God

Author:William Saroyan

“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountaintop,then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shal claim your limbs,then shall you truly dance.”

May Earth Dies Silence Sun Wind Drink Rivers Claims Breaths Cease Naked Breathing Climbs Tides Restless Limbs Death Poems Condolences Poems

Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of the moon. But we were all children of the white sun.”

Men Children White Sun Moon Rivers Bless Farms Ultima

Book:Bless Me, Ultima: A Novel

Source: Bless Me, Ultima: A Novel

“I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.”

Source: What a way to run the tribe: selected articles, 1948-67

“Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.”

Sun Rain Rivers Clouds Golden Rays Host Rain Clouds

Book:Prose and poetry

Source: Prose and poetry

“A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intelligence, the sun growing colder like our affections, the rivers becoming frozen like our lives--all bear secret relations to our destinies.”

“This is where the story starts, in this threadbare room. The walls are exploding. The windows have turned into telescopes. Moon and stars are magnified in this room. The sun hangs over the mantelpiece. I stretch out my hand and reach the corners of the world. The world is bundled up in this room. Beyond the door, where the river is, where the roads are, we shall be. We can take the world with us when we go and sling the sun under your arm. Hurry now, it's getting late. I don't know if this is a happy ending but here we are let loose in open fields.”

“Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves.”

World Looks Earth Grows Animal Sun Alive Tree Objects Bears Mountain Rivers Stones Plant Deer

Author:Leslie Marmon Silko

“Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.”

Heart Spiritual Spirit Morning Sun Rivers Ties Threatened Companionship Mist Valiant Spiritual Freedom Morning Sun Iridescent

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life, the things I remember, the things I turn over in my hands, are not houses, bank accounts, prizes or promotions. What I remember is love -- all love -- love of this dirt road, this sunrise, a day by the river, the stranger I met in a café. Myself, even, which is the hardest thing of all to love, because love and selfishness are not the same thing. It is easy to be selfish. It is hard to love who I am. No wonder I am surprised if you do.”

Source: Lighthousekeeping

“The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love.”

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“Hark, I hear a robin calling! List, the wind is from the south! And the orchard-bloom is falling Sweet as kisses on the mouth. In the dreamy vale of beeches Fair and faint is woven mist, And the river's orient reaches Are the palest amethyst. Every limpid brook is singing Of the lure of April days; Every piney glen is ringing With the maddest roundelays. Come and let us seek together Springtime lore of daffodils, Giving to the golden weather Greeting on the sun-warm hills.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of L. M. Montgomery (Illustrated)

“Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring died. The patch of grass in front of the house abandoned its ambitions to become a lawn and turned into the dirty yellow of poor straw. The earth shrank, revealing its knuckles and bones, rocks and roots that had been invisible before.”

Earth House Water Poor Sun Saws Rocks Fronts Ambition Spring Rain Rivers Roots Died Bones Invisible Dirty Grass Yellow Abandoned Revealing Patches Lawns Straws Knuckles Lavender

Book:Toujours Provence

Source: Toujours Provence

“Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.”

Believe Belief I Believe Religious Sun Fire Blood Crazy Rocks Rivers Horse Mad I Believe In Storm Doctrine Dogma Eagles Flutes Brooms Banjos

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Be in relaxation a few moments. It can be any kind of situations - swimming in the river, relax with the river, or sunning on the beach, relax with the sun - anything. Life is full of opportunities.”

Kind Moments Life Is Opportunity Situation Sun Rivers Beach Relax Swimming Relaxation

Author:Rajneesh

“You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one. For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?”

“Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps Followed each other till a dreary moor Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge, I overlooked the bed of Windermere, Like a vast river, stretching in the sun.”

Steps Sun Bed Summer Standing Rivers Edges July Stretching Noon Overlooked Dreary Standing Alone Ridges Moors Quickening

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

“If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful, and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations. The heat of the sun's rays represents an immense amount of energy vastly in excess of waterpower...The sun's energy controlled to create lakes and rivers for motive purposes and transformation of arid deserts into fertile land.”

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