Clear Quote by Zhuangzi

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the…

— Zhuangzi

Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.

— Michael Faraday

As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude…

— Zhuangzi

Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear, as it ascends to…

— Washington Irving

When water isn't rippled, it is naturally still. When a mirror isn't clouded, it is clear of itself. So the mind is not to…

— Zicheng Hong

The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of…

— John Ruskin

Water is the mirror of nature.

— Francis of Assisi

“My spirit mirrors the radiance of a clear, blue sky. With closed eyes I lift my face and smile, warmed from the core and…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“There is a famous saying: "If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful landscape seems scarcely complete…

— William Montagu-Pollock

How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand…

— Elizabeth Oakes Smith