Floating Quotes

• And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Halloween, Lying, Ravens

  "The Raven" l. 107 (1845)

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• The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Children, Light, Water

  Louis Lallemant, Jean Pierre de Caussade, Claude De La Colombiere, Jean-Pierre Lafouge (2006). “For God's Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality”, p.73, World Wisdom, Inc

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• To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Trust, Faith

  "The Essence of Alan Watts". Book by Alan Watts, 1977.

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• Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.

  Wayne Dyer

  Peace, Successful, Keys

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 19, 2015

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• How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!

  A. A. Milne

  Sweet, Clouds, Blue

  Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) ch. 1

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• The heavens are full of floating mysteries.

  Thomas Buchanan Read

  Heaven, Mystery

  Thomas Buchanan Read (1855). “Poems by Thomas Buchanan Read”, p.246

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• Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Leadership, Creativity, Kaleidoscope

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• it's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Belief

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• I used to walk like a giant on the land. Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream

  Neil Young

  Land, Giants, Leafs

  "Song: 'Walk Like A Giant'". 2012.

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• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

  Muhammad Ali

  Strength, Sports, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2014

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• Ingnore your thoughts. As you focus more intensely, you may feel as if you are floating.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Chakra Meditation, Focus

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• One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.

  Joseph Conrad

  Believe, Ocean, Incredibles

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 13, 2011

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• And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Everyday, Empty

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• There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Reality, Tonight

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• She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

  Janet Fitch

  Ocean, Guitar, Sea

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

  Ava Gardner

  Perfect, Water, Doing Nothing

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

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• Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  "Stray Birds". Book by Rabindranath Tagore, 1916.

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• The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

  Allen Ginsberg

  Fleeting, World, Sacred

  Aperture, Richard Avedon, Eric Fischl, Allen Ginsberg (1985). “The Human Street: Photographs”, Aperture

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• Nothing's gonna stop me from floating

  Tori Amos

  Song: Father Lucifer, Album: Boys for Pele, 1996

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• The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.

  Joseph Henry

  Science, Discovery, Roots

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• You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.

  Douglas Coupland

  Caring, Loss, Thinking

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “Player One”, p.99, Random House

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• People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

  James A. Baldwin

  Respect, People, Water

  "No Name in the Street". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1972.

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• We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.

  Brad Dourif

  Ocean, Edges

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

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• And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.

  Lauren Oliver

  Inspirational, Fall, Feelings

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.217, Hachette UK

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