Letting go Quote by Malidoma Patrice Some

But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Liesel crossed the bridge over the Amper River. The water was glorious and emerald and rich. She could see the stones at the bottom…

— Markus Zusak

Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and…

— Mao Zedong

In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two-and-seventy…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time…

— Chuck Klosterman

We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight…

— Simon Van Booy

Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be…

— Anonymous

When it seems like the night will last forever, And there's nothing left to do but count the years, When the strings of my…

— Robert Hunter

The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There,…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from…

— Aeschylus

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

— Gustave Flaubert

All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure;…

— John Ruskin