Water Quotes

• If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

  Loren Eiseley

  Garden, Rivers, Lakes

  The Immense Journey "The Flow of the River" (1957)

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• He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Doe, Pot, Fountain

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1965). “Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)”, p.32, Univ of California Press

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• Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

  Ani DiFranco

  Art, Media, Flames

  Song: Willing to Fight, Album: Puddle Dive

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• The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

  Hermann Hesse

  Voice, Rivers, Creatures

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• Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moving, Moon, Down And

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Rain, Destiny

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.76, Ignatius Press

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• We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Wine, Miracle

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• Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have been devoted. We fare no better in our speculations than a fish which should strive to become clear as to what is water.

  Albert Einstein

  Philosophy, Math, Strive

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• Water is everywhere and in all living things; we cannot be seperated from water. No water, no life. Period. Water comes in many forms - liquid, vapor, ice, snow, fog, rain, hail. But no matter the form, it's still water.

  Robert Fulghum

  Rain, Fog, Ice

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• If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Ideas, House

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• All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Travel, Born

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• The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Fire, Lessons, Hottest

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• Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

  Margaret Atwood

  Patience, Children, Wall

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• In time and with water, everything changes.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Things Change, Drinking Water

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• Water is the soul of the Earth.

  W. H. Auden

  Soul, Earth, Drinking Water

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• Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

  Bruce Lee

  Blank Mind, Empty Mind, Meditation

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.138, Tuttle Publishing

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  Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Motivational, Strength

  W. H. Auden, Katherine Bucknell (2003). “Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928”, p.105, Princeton University Press

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• Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

  Laozi

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

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• We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

  Thomas Fuller

  Ocean, Sea, Oil And Water

  "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1732.

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• When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memorable, Hands, Rafting

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• The amount of water on the planet does not change, only its quality.

  Walter Munk

  Quality, Doe, Planets

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  Water is the driving force of all nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Reality, Driving

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• And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

  Lord Byron

  Lonely, Wind, Lyric Poetry

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.948, Delphi Classics

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• Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Life, Science, Dancing

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (2012). “The Living State: With Observations on Cancer”, p.9, Elsevier

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  Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Friends

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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