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Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe.… — Warsan Shire
A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant. — Ming-Dao Deng
Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like the roar of… — Khalil Gibran
But then you become closed. Then you start dying as far as your intelligence is concerned because intelligence needs the open sky, the wind, the… — Rajneesh
Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank. — Paulo Coelho
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in… — Ayn Rand
Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow.… — A B Simpson
Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in… — Leonardo da Vinci
Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant… — Dennis Miller
In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy. — Peter J. Carroll
The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all.… — Art Blakey
Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind. — King Hussein I
The hardest thing about being an outcast isn't the love you don't receive. It's the love you long to give that nobody wants. After a… — Jodee Blanco
Words taken literally or held as ultimate truth can keep us stagnant and stuck, holding on to old ideologies. I now know that everything I… — Anita Moorjani
If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming Egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid. — Pope Francis
The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas. — Napoleon Hill
We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or… — Donella Meadows
A human life has seasons much as the earth has seasons, each time with its own particular beauty and power. And gift. By focusing on… — Rachel Naomi Remen
Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The… — Napoleon Hill
As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the Pilates Methods purify… — Joseph Pilates
A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool.... — Alan Cohen
It's important to make an effort under any circumstance - stagnant, sickness, being in an unstable lifestyle, even when society is insane. You should consider… — Masaaki Hatsumi
No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water. — Chanakya

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