Clear Water Quotes

• By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

  Aeschylus

  Drinking, Water, Environmental

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• You are a pool of clear water where the light plays

  Jeanette Winterson

  Light, Play, Water

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.85, Random House

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• Clear water is always suspect.

  Joe Teti

  Water, Survival, Clear

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• The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Wisdom, Dark

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• Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.

  Laozi

  Positivity, Water, Clear

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• In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Water, Meditation, Consciousness

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• People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.

  Janet Frame

  Fear, Reflection, People

  Janet Frame (1980). “Scented gardens for the blind: a novel”, George Braziller

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• The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

  Seungsahn

  Girl, Dancing, Water

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• All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

  Holly Near

  Bridges, Water, Risk

  Holly Near, Derk Richardson (1990). “Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography”, William Morrow & Company

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• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and the clear water. Friends argue that I might be wiser for it. They do not hear that far-off Yankee whisper: How dull we grow from hurrying here and there! Many have gone, and think me half a fool To miss a day away in the cool country. Maybe. But in a book I read and cherish, Going to Walden is not so easy a thing As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult Trick of living, and finding it where you are.

  Mary Oliver

  Country, Lying, Book

  Mary Oliver (1972). “The River Styx, Ohio, and other poems”

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• If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.

  John Gibbons

  Change, Life Changing, Darkness Within

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• Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, Loneliness, People

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• Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear water of thoughts, what I watch watches me, I am the creation of what I see

  Octavio Paz

  Eye, Water, Perception

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• We have to look deeply at things in order to see. When a swimmer enjoys the clear water of the river, he or she should also be able to be the river.

  Nhat Hanh

  Order, Rivers, Water

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.130, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.

  Matsuo Basho

  Wind, Lakes, Water

  Matsuo Basho (2003). “A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen”, p.4, Counterpoint Press

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• Water is one of the most basic of all needs - we cannot live for more than a few days without it. And yet, most people take water for granted. We waste water needlessly and don't realize that clean water is a very limited resource. More than 1 billion people around the world have no access to safe, clean drinking water, and over 2.5 billion do not have adequate sanitation service. Over 2 million people die each year because of unsafe water - and most of them are children!

  Robert Alan Aurthur

  Children, Drinking, Years

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• By the shores of Gitchee Gumee,
  By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
  Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
  Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis,
  Dark behind it rose the forest,
  Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
  Rose the firs with cones upon them;
  Bright before it beat the water,
  Beat the clear and sunny water,
  Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Daughter, Dark, Moon

  'The Song of Hiawatha' (1855) 'Hiawatha's Childhood'

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• When the mind is turbulent, uncontrolled and restless, it is like a pond of water that is filled with mud. Therefore when we look within ourselves, all we perceive is the mud of our material conceptions of life. But when the mind is still through discipline, and through yoga, it is like a pond that has no waves and no turbulence. Then we can perceive through that crystal clear water the eternal nature of our soul.

  Radhanath Swami

  Yoga, Discipline, Water

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• All living beings, things that move, are equally important, whether they are human beings, dogs, birds, fish, trees, ants, weeds, rivers, wind or rain. To stay healthy and strong, life must have clean air, clear water and pure food. If deprived of these things, life will cycle to the next level, or as the system says, 'die'.

  John Africa

  Inspirational, Life, Weed

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• In Lilly's eyes her beautiful clear water eyes there is what I have sought and never found, wanted and never had, hoped for and never discovered. Love.

  James Frey

  Beautiful, Eye, Water

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.281, Rutgers University Press

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• Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly clear water at something enormous and black in its nethermost depths. Maybe it was the bottom - so deep that not even light could touch it. And yet, down in those impossible depths, she thought she could see tiny lights sparkling. She stared uncertainly at the tiny glimmerings. They seemed almost like scattered grains of sand lit from within; in some places they clustered like colonies, faint and twinkling. Like stars.

  Fuyumi Ono

  Stars, Ocean, Dark

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• You can't turn back technology and you can't turn back authoritarianism. You can't have one hand in the dirt and one hand in the crystal clear water and say that you're clean. That's just the way it is.

  El-P

  Technology, Hands, Water

  Source: www.complex.com

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• The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Rain, Men, Water

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• How wonderful is Cold Mountain Climbers are all afraid The moon shines on clear water twinkle twinkle Wind rustles the tall grass Plum trees flower in the snow Bare twisted trees have clouds for foliage A touch of rain brings it all alive Unless you see clearly do not approach

  Hanshan

  Rain, Flower, Moon

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