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“When you're standing in deep water And you're bailing yourself out with a straw And when you're drowning in deep water And you wake up making love to a wall Well it's these little time that help to remind It's nothing without love, love, love”

Wells Littles Helping Song Water Wall Standing Wake Up Making Love Drowning Without Love Straws Little Time Deep Water

Author:Jewel

“Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star, in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran; love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes, two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.”

Love Two War Body Light Stars Water Love Is Air Honey Flash Lightning Drowning Voyages

Book:Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)

Source: Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)

“Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.”

Men Water Reasoning Drowning Torches Drunkards

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.”

People Thinking Said Reality Water Differences Knowing Seeing Sea Masters Enlightenment Sight Miles Drowning Stormy Stormy Seas

Author:Anthony de Mello

“If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.”

Ifs Moments Bigs Might Lasts Water Minutes Degrees Twenties Wave Eight Forty Drowning Forty Eight

Book:Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

“If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth and turn on the water. It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. You're talking about the American way - of survival of the fittest.”

Ifs Way Turns Water Talking Dog Industry Survival Mouths Sticks Ridiculous Ems Rats Competitors Kill Me Drowning Turn-on Survival Of The Fittest

Author:Ray Kroc

“The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business of love is to drown in the sea. Intellectuals plan their repose; lovers are ashamed to rest. The lover is always alone. even surrounded by people; like water and oil, he remains apart. The man who goes to the trouble of giving advice to a lover get nothing. He's mocked by passion. Love is like musk. It attracts attention. Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.”

Source: Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey

“Nation states are not a solution for democratic governance. This is same for Kurdish people. To see it as a solution is same as trying to drink water while drowning. The real necessity is oxygen not water. The solution is to get out of water and take a deep breath, decrease nation state and increase social democracy. Therefore our requests of a state are no further than a social and deeply rooted democracy.”

People Trying Real Water Democracy Drink Solutions Democratic Drowning Deep Breath Drink Water Take A Deep Breath

Author:Selahattin Demirtas

“We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them.”

Suffering Water Struggle Arms Encouragement Fellows Shore Multitudes Powerless Drowning Stretching Sinking

Author:Felix Adler

“They say we're 98% water. We're that close to drowning. I like to live on the edge.”

Humor Funny Water Edges Drowning

Author:Steven Wright