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Water Quotes by Confucius
- With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of…
- Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never…
- A man of wisdom delights in water.
- Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.
- He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.
- Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface.
- The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the…
- How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height…
- Time flows away like the water in the river.
- The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could…
- Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are…
- As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.
More Water Quotes
- People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when… — Chinua Achebe
- Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters. — Diane Ackerman
- The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. — Teresa of Avila
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- 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
- You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is… — Sai Baba
- I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot… — Erykah Badu
- Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself. — Andre Balazs
- People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters… — James A. Baldwin
- I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as… — Tallulah Bankhead
- Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very… — George Matthew Adams