Bodies Of Water Quotes

• We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.

  Deborah Smith

  Water, Depth, Body

  Deborah Smith (2002). “Alice At Heart”, p.10, BelleBooks

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• We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss.

  Alexander Lowen

  Philosophy, Ocean, Air

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• Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Soul, Film Music, Originality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Beach, Nature

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.152, 谷月社

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• Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspiration, Stealing Things, Imagination

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• Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

  Jim Jarmusch

  Soul, Film Music, Graphic Design

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• Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspirational, Music, Dream

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Gretel Ehrlich (1992). “Islands, the universe, home”, Penguin Group USA

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• To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Spring, Fall, Rivers

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• Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands - alternately cool, warm, moist and dry - a taste of brine and the presence of the rocking, slopping bluegraygreen spit-flecked waters, has the effect of rinsing the emotions, bathing the outlook, bleaching the conscience.

  Roger Zelazny

  Sea, Smell, Dwelling

  Roger Zelazny (2001). “Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat”, Ibooks

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• The natural elements in the forests, mountains, deserts and large bodies of water, help shield you from the thought forms and auras of other human beings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Buddhism, Water

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• The first rule (of investing) for me is don't have rules. You find one amazing investment and that's all that matters. If you pick the right body of water, you might not need a boat.

  Mark Pincus

  Water, Needs, Investing

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• Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and drives them off: to quarries, dumps, small anonymous bodies of water.

  Lorrie Moore

  Men, Water, Car

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Anagrams”, p.56, Vintage

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• There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.

  Diana Nyad

  Two, Knowing, Water

  FaceBook post by Diana Nyad from Jan 14, 2014

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• The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east

  James A. Michener

  Ocean, Character, Sea

  James A. Michener (2014). “Caribbean: A Novel”, p.24, Dial Press

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• As long as there's a body of water nearby, I'm happy. Pools don't count. I like diving into the ocean and coming out refreshed.

  Sarah Carter

  Ocean, Long, Water

  "Sarah Sanguin Carter: Esquire's Summer Hostess". Interview with Steve Ciccarelli, www.esquire.com. June 6, 2011.

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• When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I think we have those paradoxes within us and certainly the whole idea of home is windswept with paradox.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Lying, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Sometimes people in search of a better fishing hole can't see the body of water in front of them.

  Tony Todd

  Fishing, People, Water

  "Interview with Horror Icon Tony Todd". Interview with Rob Frappier, screenrant.com. October 1, 2010.

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• I've been told that certain species of fish will grow according to the size of their environment. Put them in a tiny aquarium, and they remain small even at adulthood. Release them into a huge natural body of water, and they grow into their intended size. People are similar. If they live in a harsh and limiting environment, they stay small. But put them someplace that encourages growth, and they will expand to reach their potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Aquariums, People

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• Millions upon millions of years ago, when the continents were already formed and the principal features of the earth had been decided, there existed, then as now, one aspect of the world that dwarfed all other ... a mighty ocean, resting uneasily to the east of the largest continent, a restless ever-changing, gigantic body of water that would later be described as Pacific.

  James A. Michener

  Ocean, Years, Water

  James A. Michener (2013). “Hawaii: A Novel”, p.19, Dial Press

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• I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall into some local body of water... done it hundreds of times.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Fall, People

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• Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably a separation of souls because of the uniqueness of our faces and our experiences. And I learned also the moments when the current of my life joins the current of another life, and I can glimpse for a moment the one flowing body of water we all compose.

  Kate Horsley

  Loneliness, Water, Soul

  Kate Horsley (2002). “Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

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• My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I used to live. I like the heat - the only thing I would change is have the ocean, or a big body of water close by.

  Ryan Sypek

  Change, Beautiful, Ocean

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• Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.

  Aimee Bender

  Mom, Daughter, Brother

  FaceBook post by Aimee Bender from May 09, 2015

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• Otis barreled towards them empty-handed, before apparently realizing that a) he was empty-handed and b) charging towards a large body of water to fight a son of Poseidon was maybe not a good idea.

  Rick Riordan

  Fighting, Son, Ideas

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