“My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.” Life IsBitsWaterSimpleDown AndComplicatedReactions Author:Laura Marling
“Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.” WayFirstsWellsI CanHelpingSongWaterCan DoSimpleAreasStartingRapHelpfulRap Song Author:Jay-Z
“Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?” WorldGivingHeartDoeRunningAbleSpiritualHumanityAsksWaterSimplePoorCompassionMoralCuttingEconomicExampleBrokenAmountDemandEatingMassIndiaBlameDistanceCancerOilMusclesFarmersConsumerismBleedingPumpsOverconsumptionGasolineGallons Author:Richard J. Foster
“If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it. Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness.” IfsLightNightSoundBlackWaterSimpleSilenceDarknessBearsProfessionMysteriousSunshineDestinationDislikePrescriptionsHurryingChasmsDarkness To LightYawningCreviceSound Of Water Book:The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic Source: The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic
“I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved.” WaterSimpleCostBottlesI Have LearnedRoyalSoda Book:The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded Source: The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded
“I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.” KnowsMadeSchoolWaterSimpleMorningGrewGrew UpRiversTownsSoccerHappy LifeElectricitySmall TownBathingFetchPlaying SoccerTap Water Author:Ishmael Beah
“It often astonishes me that I did not see the importance of meditation upon Scripture earlier in my Christian life. As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so it is with the inner man. What is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God -not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe. No, we must consider what we read, ponder over it, and apply it to our hearts.” MenMindHeartRunningChristianReadingWaterPrayerSimpleMeditationFitImportanceScriptureChristian LifeLengthOver ItWord Of GodPipePondering Author:George Muller
“Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.” ThinkingLifeHardHandsYoungWaterSimpleSunSafeFingersCupsNoticing Author:Jean Anouilh
“The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary.” IfsNeedsReasonSufferingWaterSimpleTechniqueUnnecessaryEmphasisShamanismDeep WaterUnnecessary Suffering Author:Terence McKenna
“It's an appreciation for life generally, every bit of life, the smallest creature that lives in the intestines of termites that make termite life possible - to the leaves that turn out oxygen and grab carbon dioxide and with water make simple sugars that feed much of the world. I mean, these are everyday miracles.” WorldMeanTurnsBitsWaterSimpleCreaturesMiracleEverydayAppreciationSugarSmallestCarbonOxygenCarbon DioxideIntestines Author:Sylvia Earle
“I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.” IfsPersonsDifferentWaterSimpleCareersAirMissingRetiringSimple LifeWalesOld Person Author:Ellie Goulding
“If you don't eat right as an athlete, you'll get tired and won't be as sharp. It's simple to drink sodas and sports drinks, but water is the most essential drink to put in your body.” IfsBodySportsWaterSimpleDrinkEssentialsTiredAthleteYour BodySoda Author:Troy Polamalu
“I'm lucky with my skin - it doesn't require a lot of attention, so I keep things simple. And I drink a lot of water.” WaterSimpleAttentionDrinkLuckySkins Author:Arizona Muse
“One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on a pond at the commencement of a drizzle, a simple bladder nozzle built on the suction principal gum bubble, mole, or birth ward, bumpy metal button, or the painful red eruption of a swelling), but does one care to see his breakfast fruit as a sweetened milky bowl of snipped nips? no.” MayDoeBodyCareWaterSimpleBirthBuiltRedFruitPainfulBreastsBreakfastMetalsBubblesBowlsPrincipalButtonsPondsGumCommencementMolesSwellingNipplesEruptionBladderRaspberriesDrizzle Author:William H. Gass
“The simple fact is that there is a limited amount of water on the planet, and we cannot afford to be negligent in its use. We cannot keep treating it as if it will never run out.” IfsFactsUseRunningWaterSimplePlanetsAmountEnvironmental Author:Mohamed ElBaradei
“When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or sexually transmitted diseases, national frontiers are simple irrelevant. Toxins don't stop for customs inspections and microbes don't carry passports. North America became a water and free-trade zone long before NAFTA loosened up the market in goods.” LongAmericaWaterSimpleDiseaseRainTradeEnvironmentalOilZoneGoodsCustomsRadiationPollutionIrrelevantFrontiersAcidSexuallySpillsNorth AmericaPassportsFree TradeLeaksTaintedInspectionToxinsMicrobesOil SpillNaftaFisheriesAcid RainSexually Transmitted DiseasesGroundwaterTrade Zone Author:Benjamin Barber
“When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?” WorldRunningWaterSimplePoorDemandIndiaBlameFarmersConsumerismPumpsOverconsumptionGasolineGallons Author:Richard J. Foster
“Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All you need is a cork, a bar magnet, and a pail of water. Simply attach your magnet to your cork, then drop it into the water, and voilà (literally, "you have a compass")-you have a compass. How does it work? Simple. Notice that, no matter which way you turn the bucket, the cork always floats on top of the water (unless the magnet is too heavy). Using this scientific principle, early hardy mariners were able to tell at a glance whether they were sinking!” IfsWayWantNeedsTryingDoeMatterMightAbleScienceTurnsWaterSimplePrinciplesHeavyExperimentsBarsGlancesCompassFloatsAbsolutely NothingSinkingBucketsMagnetHardyMarinersCork Author:Dave Barry
“The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'” SaidTwoAgeWaterDarkSimpleBehindsDyingPureMedicalPhysiciansDark AgesPure WaterSimple Food Author:Voltaire
“A person can attack that bottle of vodka and drink it like it's a bottle of cold water. Two of my wife's girlfriends died from drinking. They weren't big pill-takers; they were drinkers. So it can't be so simple as to slide away, like Marilyn Monroe.” PersonsTwoBigsWaterSimpleWifeColdDrinkDiedDrinkingMy WifeGirlfriendBottlesPillsSlidesDrinkersVodkaCold Water Author:William Eggleston
“A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.” IfsLanguageGivenWaterSimpleSecretClearMysteriousCarrieThirstBucketsGallons Author:Jane Hirshfield
“A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment - the Zen sense oof the alone.” MindEnoughWaterSimpleSeaBoatContentmentFishingMidstVastnessBeholderFishing Boats Author:D.T. Suzuki
“Reggae music is simple music - but it's from the heart. Just as people need water to drink, people also need music. If it is true music, the people will be drawn to it.” PeopleIfsNeedsHeartWaterSimpleDrinkMusic IsReggaeReggae Music Author:Ziggy Marley
“One of the reasons I think the population question is important, if we want to be as green as possible, any of our energy that is truly renewable is limited. Solar and wind are intermittent and they're so diffuse, it's difficult to harness them in a significant way. But one thing we could be doing is making it a law (like it is in Israel and Cyprus) to take every building eight stories or under and heat all of the water in those buildings with solar energy. It's absolutely simple and cheap technology.” IfsThinkingWayWantImportantReasonStoriesLawEnergyDifficultWaterSimpleTechnologyOne ThingBuildingWindGreenPopulationIsraelEightSignificantHeatHarnessSolar EnergyCyprusIntermittent Author:Alan Weisman
“Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.” BelieveSaidProcessWaterNaturalSimpleHolyQuietMassCriticalIntellectDullBlessHoly Water Author:Blaise Pascal
“The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” PeopleThinkingTryingLife IsEnjoyWaterSimpleConflictLowsFairsAll ThingsSupremeCompareGenerousTaoFamily LifeGoverningDwellingDisdain Author:Laozi
“Is it love that connects us, is that what it is? I never knew that the feeling I have is regular old love because it's so-intricate. Perhaps there is another name for it, one we don't yet know. I used to think that love was simple and noticeable, like rain falling, so that just as you'd look at your skin and say Water, you would also wake in the morning and say Love. But it has been underneath, this new and old thing I feel, subterranean, silent and steady, like blood, rushing along and along without often making itself known.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsLooksHas BeensFeelingsUsedFallNamesWaterSimpleLove IsKnownMorningBloodRainSkinsSilentSteadyRushingIntricateOld ThingsOld LoveRain Falling Author:Jane Hamilton