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Streams Quotes by Laozi
- What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like…
- The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them.…
- Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them... If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with…
- All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people,…
- Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . .…
- What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.
- All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.
More Streams Quotes
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in… — Lord Acton
- What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross. — Buffalo Bill
- And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in… — Aeschylus
- All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will… — David R. Brower
- The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall,… — Richard Branson
- In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only… — James Buchan