The past resembles the future more than one drop of water…

“Know the world from end to end is a mirror; in each atom a hundred suns are concealed. If you pierce the heart of…

— Mahmud Shabistari

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond…

— Rachel Carson

When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from…

— Gautama Buddha

Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.

— Gustave Flaubert

We are like a drop of water in a vast, divine ocean, distinct yet immersed in something much larger than ourselves. It’s only when…

— Alberto Villoldo

When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book…

— Karel Appel

Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge…

— Gautama Buddha

There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart…

— Woody Allen

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the…

— Terry Pratchett

Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

— Dalai Lama

Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing…

— Alfred Jarry

“Sometimes a single drop of water is so valuable for the very thirsty that he may hesitate to drink it immediately!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Realization doesn't destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect…

— Dogen

Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the…

— Anthony Trollope

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for…

— Anthony Horowitz