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  We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Christian, Wisdom

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.213, Image

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• In us, there is a river of feelings, in which every drop of water is a different feeling, and each feeling relies on all the others for its existence. To observe it, we just sit on the bank of the river and identify each feeling as it surfaces, flows by, and disappears.

  Nhat Hanh

  Rivers, Water, Feelings

  Joseph Emet, Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “Mindfulness Meditation: For a Quieter Mind, Self-Awareness and Healthy Living”, p.48, Souvenir Press

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• Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

  Dalai Lama

  Honesty, Water, Pebbles

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• Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans.

  Mahmud Shabistari

  Inspirational, Ocean, Heart

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• You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop-H2O. The reader will get it.

  George Singleton

  Rain, Writing, Water

  George Singleton (2008). “Pep Talks, Warnings, And Screeds: Indispensable Wisdom And Cautionary Advice For Writers”, p.46, Writer's Digest Books

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• We are like a drop of water in a vast, divine ocean, distinct yet immersed in something much larger than ourselves. It’s only when we experience our connection to infinity that we’re able to dream powerfully.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Dream, Ocean, Water

  Alberto Villoldo (2010). “Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.

  Octavio Paz

  Thank You, Gratitude, Water

  Octavio Paz (1990). “Búsqueda Del Presente”, Harcourt

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• Women's weapons, water-drops.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Water, Weapons

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 2, sc. 4, l. [279]

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• No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Men, Water, Lasts

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• Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.

  Gautama Buddha

  Thinking, Water, Mountain

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• Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

  Agatha Christie

  Believe, Water, Pool

  Agatha Christie (1976). “Sleeping Murder & the Murder at the Vicarage”

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• Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

  Percy Ross

  Success, Ocean, Lakes

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• Every drop of water in an ocean contains the flavor of the whole ocean. So too, every moment in time contains the flavor of eternity, if you could live in that moment, but most people do not live in the moment which is the only time they really have.

  Deepak Chopra

  Ocean, People, Water

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  God, Wise, Wisdom

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• How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Rivers, Water, Unity

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• Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.

  Gautama Buddha

  Thinking, Water, Suffering

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• Praise the sea; on shore remain.

  John Florio

  Rain, Ocean, Sea

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• A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

  Sivananda

  Ocean, Water, Mountain

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• We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rain, Men, Water

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1183, Delphi Classics

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• Realization doesn't destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.

  Dogen

  Reflection, Moon, Sky

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• That’s one way of looking at it. I prefer to look at it another way—which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.

  Veronica Roth

  Rocks, Water, Forever

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• Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational, Funny, Water

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 119 (1798).

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• As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Evil, Water

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• Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Ocean, Independent, Men

  "Book Of Happiness". Book by Jagdish Gupta, 2013.

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• You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.

  Margaret Weis

  Blow, Fire, Water

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