Streams Quotes - Page 31

• There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
  The earth, and every common sight,
  To me did seem
  Apparelled in celestial light,
  The glory and the freshness of a dream.

  William Wordsworth

  Dream, Light, Sight

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 1 (1807)

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• Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in some absorbing work.

  Rumi

  Love, Memories, Night

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• A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the substance is a stream of energy going in at one end and out at the other. We are particularly and temporarily identifiable wiggles in a stream that enters us in the form of light, heat, air, water, milk, bread, fruit, beer, beef Stroganoff, caviar, and pate de foie gras. It goes out as gas and excrement - and also as semen, babies, talk, politics, commerce, war, poetry, and music. And philosophy.

  Alan Watts

  Baby, Philosophy, War

  Alan W. Watts (2007). “Does It Matter?: Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality”, p.23, New World Library

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• Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Air, Gleam

  'Laodamia' (1815) l. 103

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• Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.

  Thomas Merton

  Spring, Catholic, Action

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.

  Samuel Rogers

  Sweet, Time, Memories

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1839). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White”, p.13

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• You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.

  Khalil Gibran

  Time, Watches, Spirit

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore.

  John Gierach

  Fishing, Trout, Forget You

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• Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source from which may be drawn a life more successful, more knowing than our own. Somehow they will do one thing, take one step further, they will see the summit. We believe in it, the radiance that streams from the future, from days we will not see. Children must live, must triumph. Children must die; that is an idea we cannot accept.

  James Salter

  Children, Believe, Successful

  James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.69, Vintage

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• We can hold back neither the coming of the flowers nor the downward rush of the stream; sooner or later, everything comes to its fruition.

  Li Ching-Yuen

  Time, Flower, Fruition

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• And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.

  William Wordsworth

  Memories, Soul, Passed Away

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.615

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• The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

  Shana Alexander

  Change, Rights, Law

  Shana Alexander (1975). “Shana Alexander's State-by-State guide to women's legal rights”

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• Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

  Isabel Paterson

  Wall, Together, Energy

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “The God of the Machine”, p.50, Transaction Publishers

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• A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light. But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.

  Al Ries

  Cancer, Light, Focus

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• Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Wind, Grace, Soul

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• There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Country, Garden, Cities

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.48

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• If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person as sure as the streams run into the ocean which becomes ever deeper and wider. If a man who has committed a misdemeanor come to the knowledge of it, reform himself, and practise goodness, the force of retribution will gradually exhaust itself as a disease gradually loses its baneful influence when the patient perspires.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Ocean, Heart

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• If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.

  Russell Simmons

  Beautiful, Encouragement, Rushing

  Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow (2011). “Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All”, p.12, Penguin

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• Every one of us can blame somebody for something that has happened in our lives. But don't waste your time. What we need most is a steady stream of love flowing among us. Love that quickly forgives, willingly overlooks, and refuses to take offense.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Life, Forgiving, Needs

  Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Hope Again: When Life Hurts and Dreams Fade”, p.81, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Men need to know the elemental challenges that sea and mountains present. They need to know what it is to be alive and to survive when great storms come. They need to unlock the secrets of streams, lakes, and canyons and to find how these treasures are veritable storehouses of inspiration. They must experience the sense of mastery of adversity. They must find a peak or a ridge that they can reach under their own power alone.

  William O. Douglas

  Inspiration, Adversity, Men

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1960). “My Wilderness THE PACIFIC WEST”

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• God is the source of life and light and joy to the universe. Like rays of light from the sun, like the streams of living water bursting from a living spring, blessings flow out from Him to all His creatures. And wherever the life of God is in the hearts of men, it will flow out to others in love and blessing.

  Ellen G. White

  Spring, Heart, Men

  Ellen G. White “Steps to Christ—Illustrated”, Digital Inspiration

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• I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time.

  Roland Joffe

  Fun, Thinking, Feelings

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• In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked box. Occasionally we allow people a peep, but generally only at the top level. The darker streams of our memories we negotiate alone.

  Julian Fellowes

  Memories, Past, People

  Julian Fellowes (2008). “Past imperfect”, Orion Pub Co

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• No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Bridges, Crosses, Constructs

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.179, Cambridge University Press

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• Beyond what we wish
  and what we fear may happen
  we have another life,
  as clear and free as a mountain stream.

  Rumi

  Wish, Mountain, May

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