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“A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.”

“Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth of the water. Each stroke helps them onward to a definite objective.”

Helping Water Knowing Activity Depth Currents Objectives Streams Definite Strokes Here And There Reeds Swimmer

Author:Margaret Sanger

“Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim.”

Writing Firsts Said Bigs Water Knowing Cold Reader Okay Confused Live By Swim Sloppy

Author:Anne Lamott

“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

“I accept that life is uncertain--that the goal is not to become more certain about anything but to relax more into the mystery of not knowing what will come next. And then, miracle of miracles, out there in the deep and uncertain water, I come into a peaceful knowing--a faithful wisdom that surpasses control and certainty.”

Life Life Is Certain Next Goal Water Accepting Knowing Mystery Miracle Peaceful Certainty Faithful Relax Not Knowing Uncertain

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“The AvowalAs swimmers dareto lie face to the skyand water bears them,as hawks rest upon airand air sustains them;so would I learn to attain freefall, and floatinto Creator Spirit's deep embrace,knowing no effort earnsthat all-surrounding grace.”

Faces Spirit Lying Water Effort Knowing Grace Air Bears Embrace Creator Hawks Swimmer

Author:Denise Levertov

“Winning awards is great. Everyone wants to put a feather in their cap but for me the ultimate validation comes when you're standing on top of a peak and the weather's moving in and you're trying to manage logistics with your client, whether its food, water, shelter, and really there's only one constant out there: I know the last person I'm going to get to take care of is myself, so my gear has got to work. I take a lot of pride in knowing Eddie Bauer makes the best gear out there.”

“The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.”

Water Sin Knowing Desert

Book:The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me for Women

Source: The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me for Women

“Knowing how to swim doesn't come from someone else showing you or someone else telling you or watching movies of other people swimming. It comes from having been in the water, knowing how to move yourself through the water and not sink. And it's true of virtually everything in our lives: knowing comes from direct experience.”

People Moving Water Knowing Our Lives Direct Swim Swimming

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Dream of a world where poverty is history, dream of a world where we don't spend those obscene billions on arms, knowing full well that a tiny fraction of those budgets of death would ensure that children everywhere had clean water to drink, could afford the cheap inoculations against preventable diseases, would have good schools, adequate healthcare and decent homes.”

World Wells Children Home Dream School Water Poverty Knowing Arms Drink Disease Clean Billions Tiny Budgets Decent Healthcare Adequate Fractions Obscene Clean Water Good School

Author:Desmond Tutu

“We live our lives by the water and if you don't know how to swim in Australia, it's like not knowing how to cross a road. It's an incredible survival thing that you really must learn when you're a child.”

Ifs Knows Children Water Know How Knowing Our Lives Survival Crosses Incredibles Australia Live By Swim Not Knowing

Author:Eric Bana

“We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul.”

People Soul Spirit Water Knowing Source Blessing Protect Rivers Environmental Showers Rivers And Water Water Is Life

Author:Thomas Moore

“Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.”

Inspirational Humans Funny Water Knowing Human Nature Built Aspect Incredibles Boat Sail Sailing Coming Back Thrilling Springboards

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Into this universe, and why not knowing Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as wind along the wate, I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.”

Knows Universe Water Knowing Wind Why Not Not Knowing

Book:Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition