Flow Quotes

• The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Life, Strength, Courage

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• To reach our full potential we must first clear the mind and be present in the flow of life current.

  Justin Nozuka

  Mind, Full Potential, Firsts

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  Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Friends

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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• Circles in water as they wider flow
  The less conspicuous in their progress grow,
  And when at last they trench upon the shore,
  Distinction ceases and they're view'd no more.

  George Crabbe

  Views, Circles, Water

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• So let the mind flow like water. Face life with a calm and quiet mind and everything in life will be calm and quiet.

  Thich Thien-An

  Life, Water, Mind

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• To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.

  John Daido Loori

  Mean, Emptiness, Consciousness

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• There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Produce, Force

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• The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Quality, Fantasy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.170, Penguin

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• Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.

  Zhuangzi

  Mind, May, Reward And Punishment

  Zhuangzi, Gia-fu Feng (1974). “Chuang tsu: Inner chapters”, Vintage

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  Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

  Laozi

  Life, Change, Spiritual

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• Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Effort, Wasting Time, Achieve

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• Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Fall, Time Flies, Ego

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• Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Life, Wish

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

  Heraclitus

  Change, Nature, Travel

  "Cratylus". Dialogue by Plato, 1826.

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• Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them.

  Martin Seligman

  Skills, Challenges, Matched

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• Water will not flow from a faucet that is not connected to its source.

  Mary Morrissey

  Water, Source, Connected

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• Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

  Zhuangzi

  Motivational, Encouraging, Spiritual

  Zhuangzi, Gia-fu Feng (1974). “Chuang tsu: Inner chapters”, Vintage

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• Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Rivers, Mind

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• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

  Laozi

  Change, Life Changing, Acceptance

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  Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Sunshine

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

  George Harrison

  Inspirational, Life, Reality

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• You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing it and expect to keep up with them. Setting aside all the safety valves and pleasant distractions is the first way to send yourself the message that you're playing for keeps

  Seth Godin

  Wings, People, Safety

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• When you say, 'I enjoy doing this or that', it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Joy, Doe, World

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.179, Penguin

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