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  • Only the following items should be considered to be grave faults: not respecting another's rights; allowing oneself to be paralyzed by fear; feeling guilty; believing that one does not deserve the good or ill that happens in one's life; being a coward. We will love our enemies, but not make alliances with them. They were placed in our path in order to test our sword, and we should, out of respect for them, struggle against them. We will choose our enemies.

  • 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 female throughout the world, who by quiescence always overcomes the male. And quiescence is a form of humility.

  • As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend.

    Summer   Morning   Winter  
    Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.203, Xist Publishing
  • An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they have been turned into open sewers by communities and by industries. It makes us all very fearful that all rivers will go this way unless somebody acts now to try to balance our river development.

    Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.1001, Best Books on
  • The mercy of forgiveness is brought from the strength to accept any situation given and faced. Spiritual independence and humbleness toward life makes life like a flowing river of release. What happens will happen anyways, and everybody can make mistakes. The important thing is to learn how to make a better future from the mistake.

  • For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports.

    Rain   Science   Thinking  
    Sandra Postel (2014). “The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity”, p.184, Routledge
  • Hitoshi: I'll never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something I cannot stop. I haven't a choice. I go. One caravan has stopped, another starts up. There are people I've yet to meet, others I'll never see again. People who are gone before you know it, people who are just passing through. Even as we exchange hellos, they seem to grow transparent. I must keep living with the flowing river before my eyes. I earnestly pray that a trace of my girl-child self will always be with you. For waving good-bye, I thank you.

    Girl   Children   Moving  
    Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.150, Grove Press
  • It is sparkling light, aromatic plants, a lofty palace, a flowing river, ripe fruit, a beautiful wife and abundant clothing, in an eternal abode of radiant joy, in beautiful soundly-constructed high houses.

  • Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.

    Night   Rivers   Space  
  • Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

    "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 60), 2003.
  • Every man has a feminine side, and every woman a masculine side. It is important to use discipline with intuition, and to use intuition with objectivity.

    Life   Spiritual   Wisdom  
  • To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

    Nature   Hands   Rivers  
  • Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

    Rain   Men   Rivers  
    'The Brook' (1855) l. 33
  • Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

  • Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God's messages.

    Life   Two   People  
  • The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the opening of the north-flowing river’s delta, with Jerusalem’s answering high beams to the northeast. This 4,258 mile braid of human life, first navigated end-to-end in 2004, is visible in a single glance from space.

    Light   Rivers   Space  
  • All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster!

  • Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

    Past   Rivers   Water  
  • Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many! How can I choose? Between bursts of lightning-swift energy, I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world seems to be a flowing river of verse and all I have to do is learn how to swim.

    Ideas   Rivers   Swim  
    Margarita Engle (2013). “The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The Goddess is not separate from the world – She IS the world, and all things in it: moon, sun, earth, star, stone, seed, flowing river, wind, wave, leaf and branch, bud and blossom, fang and claw, woman and man.

    Stars   Men   Moon  
    Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, Harper Collins
  • . . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.

    Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.160, Best Books on
  • I think of the poetry of René Char and all he must have seen and suffered that has brought him to speak only of sedgy rivers, of daffodils and tulips whose roots they water, even to the free-flowing river that laves the rootlets of those sweet-scented flowers that people the milky way

    Sweet   Flower   Thinking  
    William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.256, New Directions Publishing
  • But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.

    Men   Land   Rivers  
    Herman Melville (1852). “Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities”, p.145
  • And what did the banks do to earn this perpetually flowing river of wealth? Did they lend out their own capital obtained through investment of stockholders? Did they lend out the hard-earned savings of their depositors? No, neither of these were their major source of income. They simply waved the magic wand called fiat money.

    Rivers   Magic   Income  
    "The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve". Book by G. Edward Griffin, 1994.
  • Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.

  • A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river.

  • How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

    Rivers   Water   Unity  
  • Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content. Paulo Coelho Quotes From Like the Flowing River “Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

    Flames   Rivers   People  
  • I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.

    Dream   Blood   Rivers  
    Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.5, Princeton University Press
  • Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us back, and join that flowing river.

    Art   Moving   Rivers  
    William Westney (2006). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”, p.222, Amadeus Press
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