Streams Quotes - Page 33

• You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

  Freya Stark

  Wise, Art, Travel

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• When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the genetic life-stream, and we draw strength and nourishment from this.

  Philip Carr-Gomm

  Life, Ancestor, Draws

  Philip Carr-Gomm (2011). “Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century”, p.110, Random House

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• It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the potential expressions of our individuality become manifest. Usually we know nothing of the ultimate orientation or of the outlet toward which we travel, and the stream sweeps us to a formula of life from which there is no returning. Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be.

  Rene Dubos

  Self, Expression, Decision

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• Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger

  Eckhart Tolle

  Light, Mind, Stronger

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.21, New World Library

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• The sea has now changed from its natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.

  George Vancouver

  Ocean, Fall, Sea

  George Vancouver (1798). “A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean: And Round Theworld; in which the Coast of North-west America Has Been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed”, p.210

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• Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.

  James Connolly

  Inspiration, People, Literature

  James Connolly (1971). “Labour in Irish History”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter...we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.

  James Jeans

  Reality, Jeans, Mind

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (2017). “The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]”, p.125, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• O Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire,
  What loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turn
  Dismayed, and think thy snow a sculptured urn
  Of death! Far sooner in midsummer tire
  The streams than under ice. June could not hire
  Her roses to forego the strength they learn
  In sleeping on thy breast.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Heart, Sleep, Loss

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1891). “A Calendar of Sonnets”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful.

  Charles Kuralt

  Beautiful, Hands, Fishing

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• I heard the spring light whisper
  Above the dancing stream,
  The world is made forever
  in likeness of a dream.

  Bliss Carman

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.

  Wally Lamb

  Memories, Rivers, Understanding

  Wally Lamb (1998). “I Know This Much Is True”, p.397, Cambridge University Press

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• The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take as many trout as I want from a stream? Why cannot I bring home from the woods a rare wildflower? Because if I do, everybody in this democracy should be able to do the same. My act will be multiplied endlessly. To provide protection for wildlife and wild beauty, everyone has to deny himself proportionately. Special privilege and conservation are ever at odds.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Home, Fighting, Odds

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.

  Vernon Howard

  Running, Procrastination, Men

  "There Is A Way Out!". Book by Vernon Howard, 1975.

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• But some animals, like some men, leave a trail of glory behind them. They give their spirit to the place where they have lived, and remain forever a part of the rocks and streams and the wind and sky.

  Marguerite Henry

  Animal, Men, Rocks

  Marguerite Henry (2015). “Brighty of the Grand Canyon”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• Good customers are an asset which, when wellmanaged and served, will return a handsome lifetime income stream for the company.

  Philip Kotler

  Income, Handsome, Return

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• Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!

  John Wolcot

  Giving, Trout, Sin

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• The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a still stream.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Eye, Mirrors, Play

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.164

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• The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

  Georg Brandes

  Truth, Errors, Humanity

  "Ferdinand Lassalle". Book by Georg Brandes, 1881.

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• The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Broken, Earth

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1859). “PLAIN AND PLEASANT TALK ABOUT Fruits, Flowers and Farming”, p.324

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• What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.

  Laozi

  Sea, Rivers, Taoism

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• As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run as it bounds from the earth and the dolphin continues to swim even as it leaps again and again from the sea, so writing and wayfaring are continuous activities, a running stitch, a persistence of the same seam or stream.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Running, Fall, Writing

  Robert Macfarlane (2012). “The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot”, p.95, Penguin

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• Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.

  Charles C. Mann

  Doctors, Smartphones, Data

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• An individual's yearning to reach outside his life is a seed of greatness waiting for a stream of inspiration. Carving that stream to people's hearts is a simpler task if the endeavor you are leading them into is attached to a bigger story.

  Mac Anderson

  Inspiration, Heart, Greatness

  Mac Anderson, Tom Feltenstein (2015). “Change Is Good...You Go First: 21 Ways to Inspire Change”, p.83, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Some kids don't want to be organized all the time. They want to let their imaginations run; they want to see where a stream of water takes them.

  Richard Louv

  Running, Kids, Water

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.32, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Thinking, Together, World

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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