River Quotes
1549 River quotes by 1049 unique authors
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Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and Eternal Knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of…
— Sri Aurobindo
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The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful.
— Swami Satchidananda
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By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole.
— Vaclav Havel
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Have a goal in life. When water is everywhere, it is a flood, but if it is in between banks, it is a river. It…
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels of…
— Henry Walter Bates
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Being here really is just the invitation to rest as Being. There is nothing you have to do. It is not an invitation to become.…
— Mooji
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Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever.
— Minette Walters
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The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water…
— Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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Civilisation never dies, it may change, but it is eternal. Where the paddy field is born on the dry river bed of Titash, there begins…
— Ritwik Ghatak
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As one grows older, the sense of separateness is slowly reduced. Old people do not live on an ego level. Their concerns are not about…
— Alexander Lowen
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I rarely do anything on the show by myself. I dont want it to be about me. Squatting in the sewer in San Francisco, its…
— Mike Rowe
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It's a toss-up whether the scenery or the adornment of Marilyn Monroe is the feature of greater attraction in River of No Return. The mountainous…
— Unknown Author
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Btw Pink Floyd album out in October is called 'The Endless River.' Based on 1994 sessions is Rick Wright's swansong and very beautiful.
— Unknown Author
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God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and writing songs that…
— Andrew Peterson
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I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in…
— Alice Oswald
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I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true…
— Unknown Author
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The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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The fifth century BC historian Herodotus called Egypt ‘the gift of the Nile’. The Egyptians themselves went a lot further. They claimed that their sacred…
— Unknown Author
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To have regret is to be disappointed with yourself and your choices. Those who are wise, see their life like stepping stones across a great…
— Colleen Houck
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My love and I are inventing a country, which we can already see taking shape, as if wheels were passing through yellow mud. But there…
— Larry Levis
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