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• If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.

  Pope Francis

  Running, Happy Life, Water

  "Pope Francis’s ten secrets to happiness". www.washingtonpost.com. August 1, 2014.

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• Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Soul, Enemy

  "The Size of the Soul: Principles of Revival and Spiritual Growth". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1992.

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• Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ocean, Often Is, Evil

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.312

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• Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.

  Olive Schreiner

  Running, Power, Men

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.172, Courier Corporation

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• The core problem isn’t the fact that we’re lukewarm, halfhearted, or stagnant Christians. The crux of it all is why we are this way, and it is because we have an inaccurate view of God. We see Him as a benevolent Being who is satisfied when people manage to fit Him into their lives in some small way. We forget that God never had an identity crisis. He knows that He’s great and deserves to be the center of our lives.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Views, People

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.15, David C Cook

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• The main message of it is to not get stagnant and that God wants us to continue to grow and become a better person.

  Joel Osteen

  God, Want, Messages

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• I can't stand being stagnant. Every day is a new opportunity to achieve something, even on a small scale.

  Benjamin Stone

  Opportunity, Achieve, Scales

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

  Ed Pastor

  Wages, Reconstruction, Goods

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• Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

  Napoleon Hill

  Ideas, Mind, Daily Life

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.86, Penguin

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• But then you become closed. Then you start dying as far as your intelligence is concerned because intelligence needs the open sky, the wind, the air, the sun in order to grow, to expand, to flow. To remain alive it needs a constant flow; if it becomes stagnant it becomes slowly slowly a dead phenomenon.

  Rajneesh

  Order, Wind, Sky

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• Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality..... To rest in or follow after an inferior potentiality may seem safe, rational, comfortable, easy, but it ends badly, in some futility or in a mere circling down the abyss or in a stagnant morass. Our right and natural road is towards the summits.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Lying, Safety, May

  Sri Aurobindo (1999). “The Human Cycle, Psychology of Social Development”, p.183, Lotus Press

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• I always want to do the best that I can with the opportunities that God has given me. The only way that you can possibly do that is to give yourself a chance to go as high as you possibly can. If you don't have the confidence in yourself and you don't have the desire to compete and move ahead, than you start to get stagnant....If I fall a little bit short, then I'm still farther than if I hadn't reached at all.

  Don Shula

  Moving, Fall, Opportunity

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• If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.

  Benjamin Carson

  Priorities, Risk, Environment

  "Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk". Book by Ben Carson and Gregg Lewis, 2008.

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• I like to work. I don't like to have lulls. I feel like it makes me lazy and uncreative, and that's when your ideas become stagnant.

  Sasha Grey

  Ideas, Lazy, Feels

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• I think that we, as human beings, always need to conquer our fears and reach beyond our grasp and I think it's very important that we don't become complacent or stagnant.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Thinking, Important, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.

  William Hazlitt

  Breathing, Cities, Space

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.524

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• When the homebrewers stop entering the profession, and the backyard breweries are squeezed out, then it will become stagnant.

  Greg Noonan

  Beer, Backyards, Entering

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• If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Running, Teacher, Sweet

  H. P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Voice of the Silence”, p.52, BookRix

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• In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If we don't give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked... As artists, we must learn to be self nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them - to re-stock the trout pond, so to speak.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Artist, Self

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• I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.

  Johnny Cash

  Mean, Ideas, People

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• Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

  Dennis Miller

  Thinking, Games, Interesting

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• The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Stars, Twilight

  T. S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.175, Faber & Faber

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• The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.

  James Fallows

  Air, Cities, People

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• We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time, the resources, and the will to correct its mistakes, to innovate, to preserve the fertility of its planetary ecosystems. It could focus on mindfully increasing quality of life rather than on mindlessly expanding material consumption and the physical capital stock.

  Donella Meadows

  Mistake, Thinking, Ecosystems

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• It's important to make an effort under any circumstance - stagnant, sickness, being in an unstable lifestyle, even when society is insane. You should consider such periods as an omen before you move. When you are stuck on something, it is important to hold to your purpose but not press onward against the current. When you can't move at all, try to concentrate, continuing forward as if in a boat switching to a stronger motor. The keiko that is most important when you cannot move is kage no keiko [shadow training].

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Moving, Effort, Training

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