The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.

Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.

— Paulo Coelho

If Christ were only a cistern we might soon exhaust his fullness but who can drain a fountain?

— Charles Spurgeon

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

— Bible

“Can a broken cistern hold water?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

When the heart is full of joy, it always allows its joy to escape. It is like the fountain in the marketplace; whenever it…

— Charles Spurgeon

There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks…

— Matthew Fontaine Maury

People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

— Anais Nin

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not…

— George Bernard Shaw

When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.

— Herman Melville

An overflow of good converts to bad.

— William Shakespeare

“Dear Superwoman, Seasons are there for a reason. You may not flourish now, but when it is your season, your cup will overflow.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“An hour passed and another and then, like a glass of water overfilled - the meniscus inverting, going convex, gravity pulling at the edges,…

— Anthony Doerr

Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows…

— John Ruskin

“Nourish yourself mindfully, Give from the overflow.”

— Lee Papa