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• Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

  Annie Dillard

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying.

  Bob Dylan

  Sadness, Watches, Cry

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go on its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you.

  Sheng-yen

  Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual

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• Be careful crossing above the waterfall, it's a fatal spot.

  Karl Meltzer

  Spots, Be Careful, Crossings

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• Canoe + waterfall = I don't go camping anymore.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Camping

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• It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

  Kim Stanley

  Sound, World, Flow

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• Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Children, Play, Silence

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• The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.

  Marilyn Johnson

  Stories, Down And

  "Marilyn Johnson: The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, And The Perverse Pleasures Of Obituaries" by Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. March 21, 2006.

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• By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.

  Arthur Golden

  Life, Rocks, Long

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.34, Random House

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• A girl without braids is like a mountain without waterfalls.

  Unknown

  Girl, Mountain

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• Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

  Pat Conroy

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Dec 19, 2013

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• She was beautiful in combat. I know that’s a crazy thing to say, especially after we’d just climbed a sewage waterfall, but her gray eyes sparkled when she was fighting for her life. Her face shone like a goddess’s, and believe me, I’ve seen goddesses. The way her Camp Half-Blood beads rested against her throat—Okay, sorry. Got a little distracted.

  Rick Riordan

  Beautiful, Sorry, Crazy

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Demigod Diaries (Heroes of Olympus)”, p.75, Penguin UK

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• As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without a doubt I had just been ruined.

  Abbi Glines

  Silence, Doubt, Pool

  Abbi Glines (2016). “Sea Breeze Volume 2: Just for Now; Sometimes It Lasts; Misbehaving”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

  Jack Gilbert

  Men, Water, Silence

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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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• Twisting through the thorn-thick underbrush, scratched and exhausted, one turns suddenly to find an unexpected waterfall, not half a mile from the nearest road, a spot so hard to reach that no one comes a hiding place, a shrine for dragonflies and nesting jays, a sign that there is still one piece of property that won't be owned.

  Dana Gioia

  Dragonflies, Pieces, Half

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.47, Macmillan

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• I touch God in my songas the hill touched the far-away seawith its waterfall.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Hills, Far Away, Touched

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Fireflies”

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• ...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.

  John Muir

  Fall, Good Luck, Sky

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.225, Library of America

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• The Waterfall Model is wrong and harmful; we must outgrow it.

  Fred Brooks

  Models

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• The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are the imagined only that content us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Imagination, Sublime, Mountain

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.136, Xist Publishing

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• I was a heavy heart to carry
  My beloved was weighed down
  My arms around his neck
  My fingers laced to crown.
  I was a heavy heart to carry
  My feet dragged across ground
  And he took me to the river
  Where he slowly let me drown
  My love has concrete feet
  My love's an iron ball
  Wrapped around your ankles
  Over the waterfall

  Florence Welch

  Heart, Iron, Rivers

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• I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

  River Phoenix

  Car, Want, Glorious

  "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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• Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

  Norman Maclean

  Running, Time, Rain

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• She is Melusina, the water goddess, and she is found in hidden springs and waterfalls in any forest in Christendom, even in those as far away as Greece. (...) A man may love her if he keeps her secret and lets her alone when she wants to bathe, and she may love him in return until he breaks his word, as men always do, and she sweeps him into the depths with her fishy tail, and turns his faithless blood to water. The tragedy of Melusina, whatever language tells it, whatever tune it sings, is that a man will always promise more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

  Philippa Gregory

  Spring, Men, Blood

  "The White Queen". Book by Philippa Gregory, abcnews.go.com. 2009.

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