Streams Quotes - Page 17

• Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Spheres, Intellect, Interfere

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “Essays in Zen Buddhism”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

  Joseph Monninger

  Reading, Fishing, Hiking

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• The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Strong, Reflection

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.727, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Wall, Winter

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.14, Booklassic

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• At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps even welcome, like clearings in the woods, the better to allow the heart's rays to stream out without obstacle. The unlit shadows should remain obscure, which is the very condition of enchantment.

  Andre Breton

  Heart, Poetry, Understanding

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• There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

  Dan Harmon

  Lines, Consciousness, Brooks

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• As water in a fountain flows as one stream,
  but falls in many drops divided by time and space,
  so are the revelations of the one stream of truth.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Fall, Space, Water

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (2011). “A Sufi Message of Spiritual Liberty”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you can't smell the fragrance
  don't come into the garden of Love.
  if you are unwilling to undress
  don't enter into the stream of
  Truth. Stay where you are, don't
  come our way

  Rumi

  Garden, Smell, Way

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• The handling of our forests as a continuous, renewable resource means permanent employment and stability to our country life. The forests are also needed for mitigating extreme climatic fluctuations, holding the soil on the slopes, retaining the moisture in the ground, and controlling the equable flow of water in our streams.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Mean, Water

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.65, Best Books on

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• Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.

  Havelock Ellis

  Art, Lying, Men

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom; as either the traveler may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks at a full stream.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Wisdom, Army

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.147, Princeton University Press

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• A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be a good subjectfor Christianity. The New Testament may be a choice book to him on some, but not on all or most of his days. He will rather go a-fishing in his leisure hours. The Apostles, though they were fishers too, were of the solemn race of sea-fishers, and never trolled for pickerel on inland streams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Faith, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.96, Penguin

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• What is
  there in being able
  to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of
  self-defense;
  
  in proving that one has had the experience
  of carrying a stick?

  Marianne Moore

  Attitude, Self, Sticks

  Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.216, Univ of California Press

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• Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Spring, Ocean

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.121, The Floating Press

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• When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;
  Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way
  Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side,
  The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream.

  William Butler Yeats

  Jesus, Flower, Passion

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Swimming, Blow, Men

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.60, tredition

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• All world was one, one windy nothing,
  My world was christened in a stream of milk.

  Dylan Thomas

  World, Milk, Abyss

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.91, New Directions Publishing

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• Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.

  Heraclitus

  Rivers, Progress, Steps

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• A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time in order to see theself, or its shadow, now moving with the stream, now eddying in the currents from bank to bank of its channel, and now strenuously straining onwards in the pursuit of its chosen good.

  Josiah Royce

  Moving, Past, Self

  Josiah Royce, John Edwin Smith (1988). “Josiah Royce: Selected Writings”, p.274, Paulist Press

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• To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

  George Henry Lewes

  Men, Water, Acquired Taste

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• O happy, golden age!
  Not for that rivers ran
  With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees

  Torquato Tasso

  Milk And Honey, Rivers, Tree

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• Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Drinking, Self, Soul

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• There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, What Matters, Culture

  "Ask the Author Live: Dana Goodyear with Neil Gaiman". www.newyorker.com. January 15, 2010.

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• When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.

  Zadie Smith

  People, Different, Looks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Beautiful, Summer, Spring

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