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“There's something about water that washes away the cares of the mind and heart.”

Heart Water Heartache Refreshing Cares Patricia Robin Woodruff Washing Away

Author:Patricia Robin Woodruff

“And because circumstances rarely match, and one afternoon can be a patchwork of both joy and horror, the taste of the soup washed through me”

Life Reality Circumstances Redemption Soup Sins Washing Away

Author:Aimee Bender

“I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.”

Men Way Giving Water Responsibility Sea Land Men And Women Instinct Behave Boards Floating Washing Oaks Firmness Sense Of Responsibility Flirtation Seaweed Washing Away

Book:Letters to a Friend

Source: Letters to a Friend

“I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.”

Way Love Years Pain Faces Water Loses Ability Stones Worn Washing Carving Washing Away

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”

Inspirational Truth Spiritual Growth Honesty Trust Truth Is Gold Washing Ultimate Truth Real Gold Washing Away

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.”

Done Light Stars New York Window Thirty Pens Pollution Apartment Tattoo Fog Fifth Avenues Washing Wrists Parlor Washing Away

Author:Gisele Bundchen

“My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them, and the Sea because it has always frustrated me, destroying what I have built, washing away what I have left, wiping clean the marks I have made.”

Men Made Hate Left Enemy Sea Stupid Shadow Built Weak I Hate Mark Clean Destroying Frustrated Washing Things I Hate Washing Away

Book:The wasp factory: a novel

Source: The wasp factory: a novel

“Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world.”

World Sin Blood Capable Sacraments Washing Chalice Washing Away

Book:Total Surrender

Source: Total Surrender

“Forgiveness involves pardon. Basically, that is like erasing their offenses toward us from a marking board. We immediately wash their offenses away like a wave washing away a message in the sand. Second, forgiveness involves caring for the offending person because most people who offend us have something in their own heart that needs healing. When we forgive others, they are released from our anger and we are healed by God.”

“Be surprised at nothing. Let peace and stillness flood through you and envelop you completely in its cloak. Put on the whole armor of love - and yet feel, feel very deeply. Let tears flow, washing away impurities until you feel clean within and clean without. Become like an empty vessel ready to be filled with life's nectar.”

Feels Whole Tears Ready Flow Empty Filled Clean Stillness Flood Vessel Washing Armor Very Deep Cloaks Impurity Nectar Empty Vessels Washing Away

Author:Eileen Caddy