Ponds Quotes - Page 2

• I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Lonely, Laughing, Loud

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1967). “Three Hainish Novels”

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• There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.

  Carolyn Hax

  Long, Bored, Littles

  "Carolyn Hax Live: Ignorant of fry equity". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 8, 2016.

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• We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Spiritual, Soul, Orbit

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• Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

  Aldous Huxley

  Ocean, Lakes, Music Is

  "TIME" Magazine, December 1957.

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• Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.

  Gene Hackman

  Ducks, Feet, Water

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• You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sound, Stones, Bigs

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 24, 2015

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• Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.

  Katherine Applegate

  Stars, Eye, Moon

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• We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Change, Family

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• It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Writing, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

  Saul Bellow

  Wise, Men, Stones

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• Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Children, Giving

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.215, Random House

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• Watersheds come in families; nested levels of intimacy... As you work upstream toward home, you're more closely related. The big river is like your nation, a little out of hand. The lake is your cousin. The creek is your sister. The pond is her child. And, for better or worse, in sickness and in health, you're married to your sink.

  Michael Parfit

  Cousin, Children, Home

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• Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.

  Matsuo Basho

  Moon, Night, Gone

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• The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely sobering water.But where, with winter come, am ITo find, alas, the floweres, and whereThe sunshineAnd the shadow of the world?Cold the walls standAnd the wordless, in the windThe weathercocks are rattling.

  Friedrich Holderlin

  Wall, Kissing, Winter

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• A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around it black leaves and drenched grass and fallen branches, and on it, slight as an image in an eye, sky, clouds, trees, our hovering faces and our cold hands.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Eye, Clouds, Air

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan

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• I am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love. Come settle with me, let us be neighbors to the stars. You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love. Even so, you have always been connected to me. Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-manifest. I am life itself. You have been a prisoner of a little pond, I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me, leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love.

  Rumi

  Stars, Ocean, Ignorance

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• Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Heart, Eye, Men

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• Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear,
  Each secret fishy hope or fear.
  Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond;
  But is there anything Beyond?
  This life cannot be All, they swear,
  For how unpleasant, if it were!
  One may not doubt that, somehow, Good
  Shall come of Water and of Mud;
  And, sure, the reverent eye must see
  A Purpose in Liquidity.

  Rupert Brooke

  Eye, Dark, Water

  'Heaven' (1915)

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• Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Motivational, Real, Spring

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• Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Relationship, Marriage, Lakes

  'Melincourt' (1817)

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• I will allow only my Lord to possess my sacred lotus pond, and every night you can make blossom in me flowers of fire.

  Huang E

  Flower, Night, Fire

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• When I was a kid, I felt like I could do anything and play anything. I just felt super-confident. And then, once I started to play music professionally, maybe it's from being from a small town, but you grow up and then you're suddenly a big fish in a small pond, and I realized that there were a billion other drummers out there that could play as good as you or better, and everybody wants that job.

  Patty Schemel

  Jobs, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value;they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Character, Lakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.124, 谷月社

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• When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ocean, Loss, Technology

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.44, CUP Archive

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• Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

  David Viscott

  Water, Risk, Toes

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