Reservoirs Quotes

• Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.

  Pema Chodron

  Waiting, Spirit, Humans

  "Redefining Courage" by Barbara Bonner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2017.

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• Our heart is like a reservoir from which our lives flow.

  Chuck Smith

  Heart, Flow, Our Lives

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• If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.

  Brené Brown

  Joy, Missing, Challenges

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• It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.

  Charles Comiskey

  Things In Life, Leaks, Small Things

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• Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Water, Promise

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “According to Promise”, p.41, Gideon House Books

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• I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are like a reservoir of stories, and if I can act as a similar kind of "reservoir," albeit a modest one, that would make me very happy.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

  Germaine Greer

  Dark, Lakes, Light

  Daddy,We Hardly Knew You (1989)

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• Unbounded awareness is the reservoir of possibilities.

  Deepak Chopra

  Awareness, Possibility

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• As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Uplifting, Rivers, Water

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• There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Mother, Baby, Blood

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

  Germaine Greer

  Home, Library, World

  Daddy,We Hardly Knew You (1989)

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• The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

  Jules Verne

  Sea, Speak, Ends

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.45, Jules Verne

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• The infinite reservoir of future grace is flowing back through the present into the ever-growing pool of past grace. The inexhaustible reservoir is invisible except through the promises. But the ever-enlarging pool of past grace is visible; and God means for the certainty and beauty and depth to strengthen our faith in future grace.

  John Piper

  Mean, Past, Grace

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.100, Multnomah

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• When you contact the Higher Self, the source of power within, you tap into a reservoir of infinite power.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Self, Infinite

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• Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience - ensuring we'll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen.

  Brené Brown

  Emotional, Joy, Resilience

  "Brené Brown: The Fast Track To Genuine Joy" by Brené Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2013.

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• When your consciousness becomes a still mirror, a still lake, a silent reservoir of energy, God is reflected in it.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Lakes, Mirrors

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• A crisis creates the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed.

  Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

  Opportunity, Thinking, Challenges

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• We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.

  Winston Churchill

  Cutting, Filled Up, House

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• When capital owners are few, the private-property conduits of necessity create vast savings reservoirs for those few. If there were many owners, the same conduits would broadly irrigate the economy with purchasing power.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Saving, Politics

  Louis O. Kelso, Patricia Hetter Kelso (1967). “Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals”, New York : Vintage Books

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• If we have not developed a reservoir of spiritual wealth, no amount of money is likely to make us happy. Spiritual wealth provides faith. It gives us love. It brings and expands wisdom. Spiritual wealth leads to happiness because it guides us into useful or loving relationships.

  John Templeton

  Spiritual, Money, Giving

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• In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.

  George Will

  America, Office, Suitcases

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• Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.

  W. H. Auden

  Eye, Men, Looks

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• Our nation is indeed fortunate that we can still draw on an immense reservoir of courage, character, and fortitude, that we are still blessed with heroes like those of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Man will continue his conquest of space. To reach out for new goals and ever-greater achievements, that is the way we shall commemorate our seven Challenger heroes.

  Ronald Reagan

  Hero, Blessed, Character

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• A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir. This lifts the veils, dissolves the masks, and creates space within for the feelings of forgiveness, compassion, and loving kindness that are so often blocked.

  David A. Cooper

  Spiritual, Kindness, Simple

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• Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used.

  Tony Buzan

  Memories, Used, Human Potential

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