Streams Quotes

• Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

  Muhammad Ali

  Religious, Greatness, Lakes

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• If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

  Carl Perkins

  Song, Rocks, Bed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

  A. A. Milne

  Inspirational, Life, Patience

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• Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

  John Mason Good

  Happiness, Happy, Running

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• The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

  Zhuangzi

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Character develops itself in the stream of life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Character, Good Character

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• Do not fail
  to learn from
  The pure voice of an
  Ever-flowing mountain stream
  Splashing over the rocks.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Rocks, Voice, Mountain

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.37, Shambhala Publications

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• The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,
  The brooks for the fishers of song;
  To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game
  The streams and the woods belong.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Dream, Song, Nature

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• I go now to the wilderness to be a part of it; to accept my place in the world and its place in me; to grow into reality as a tree grows into the rain, to conform to the Earth as a stream conforms to the stones of its bed. To live. To aspire. To be.

  William Ashworth

  Nature, Rain, Reality

  William Ashworth (1978). “The Wallowas: Coming of Age in the Wilderness”

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• All the streams carry the wisdom of the forest to the lake, and over there, silence replaces the noise!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lakes, Silence, Noise

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  Sit and be still
  until in the time
  of no rain you hear
  beneath the dry wind's
  commotion in the trees
  the sound of flowing
  water among the rocks,
  a stream unheard before,
  and you are where
  breathing is prayer.

  Wendell Berry

  Prayer, Rain, Rocks

  "Given". Book by Wendell Berry, 2005.

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• Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.

  William P. Young

  Healing, Heart, Water

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, May, 2007.

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• Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Leadership, Swim, Individuality

  Radio Times 9 July 1964

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• I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Rain, Moving, Memorable

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• Get in touch with yourself. The fountain of creativity begins with the stream of conscious thought flowing inside you. Open the floodgate and creative ideas come rushing out.

  Nita Leland

  Creativity, Ideas, Rushing

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• Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill:
  For there the mystical brotherhood
  Of sun and moon and hollow and wood
  And river and stream work out their will.

  William Butler Yeats

  Nature, Heart, Moon

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.

  Laozi

  Humility, Sea, Giving

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• The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Running, Nature, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.38, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spring, May, Source

  "The White Company".

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• Islands in the streams, that is what we are.

  Dolly Parton

  Islands, Misinterpretation

  Song: Islands in The Stream

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• Come to me in the silence of the night,
  Come to me in the speaking silence of a dream.
  Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright as sunlight on a stream.
  Come back in tears,
  O memory, hope, love of finished years.

  Christina Rossetti

  Dream, Memories, Eye

  'Echo'

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• Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always talking to Him, but waiting before Him till the dust settles and the stream runs clear.

  F.B. Meyer

  Running, Prayer, Fall

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• The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.

  Rumi

  Stars, Reflection, Moon

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• How do I become still?
  By flowing with the stream.

  Laozi

  Stills

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