Flowing River Quotes

• Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.
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  “Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

  Paulo Coelho

  Flames, Rivers, People

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• When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Integrity, Moving

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.106, Lulu.com

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• Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Past, Rivers, Water

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• When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memorable, Hands, Water

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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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• To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

  Barry Lopez

  Nature, Hands, Rivers

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• When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze.

  Kurt Lewin

  Rivers, Culture, Young

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• Happiness is a myth we seek,
  If manifested surely irks;
  Like river speeding to the plain,
  On its arrival slows and murks.
  For man is happy only in
  His aspiration to the heights;
  When he attains his goal, he cools
  And longs for other distant flights.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like the female throughout the world, who by quiescence always overcomes the male. And quiescence is a form of humility.

  Laozi

  Humility, Rivers, Heaven

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• A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river.

  Christiane Northrup

  Forgiveness, Rivers, Grudge

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• Till last by Philip's farm I flow
  To join the brimming river,
  For men may come and men may go,
  But I go on for ever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Rain, Men, Rivers

  'The Brook' (1855) l. 33

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• Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.

  Edward Abbey

  Night, Rivers, Space

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• Hitoshi: I'll never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something I cannot stop. I haven't a choice. I go. One caravan has stopped, another starts up. There are people I've yet to meet, others I'll never see again. People who are gone before you know it, people who are just passing through. Even as we exchange hellos, they seem to grow transparent. I must keep living with the flowing river before my eyes. I earnestly pray that a trace of my girl-child self will always be with you. For waving good-bye, I thank you.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Girl, Children, Moving

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.150, Grove Press

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• But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Land, Rivers

  Herman Melville (1852). “Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities”, p.145

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• All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happy Life, Rivers, Strange

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• Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure, and, by a natural impulse, the dwellers on their banks will at length accompany their currents to the lowlands of the globe, or explore at their invitation the interior of continents.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Adventure, Rivers, Doors

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.92, Penguin

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• Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

  Jose Saramago

  Inspirational, Life, Reading

  "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 60), 2003.

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• Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Flames

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• As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Morning, Winter

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.203, Xist Publishing

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• The mercy of forgiveness is brought from the strength to accept any situation given and faced. Spiritual independence and humbleness toward life makes life like a flowing river of release. What happens will happen anyways, and everybody can make mistakes. The important thing is to learn how to make a better future from the mistake.

  Hiroko Sakai

  Spiritual, Mistake, Rivers

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• Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us back, and join that flowing river.

  William Westney

  Art, Moving, Rivers

  William Westney (2006). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”, p.222, Amadeus Press

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• I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Blood, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.5, Princeton University Press

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• Only the following items should be considered to be grave faults: not respecting another's rights; allowing oneself to be paralyzed by fear; feeling guilty; believing that one does not deserve the good or ill that happens in one's life; being a coward. We will love our enemies, but not make alliances with them. They were placed in our path in order to test our sword, and we should, out of respect for them, struggle against them. We will choose our enemies.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Struggle, Rights

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• Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, People

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• Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many! How can I choose? Between bursts of lightning-swift energy, I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world seems to be a flowing river of verse and all I have to do is learn how to swim.

  Margarita Engle

  Ideas, Rivers, Swim

  Margarita Engle (2013). “The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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