Gautama Buddha Quotes, Buddhist Quotes, Lakes Quotes

Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and fly an invisible course. Their food is knowledge. They live on emptiness. They have seen how to break free. Who can follow them?

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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

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What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

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When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake, I disturbed its surface with countless circles. But when I reached the depths, I became very still.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Circles Quotes

Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Character Quotes , Lakes Quotes

Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.

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I played with Joey Mullen back in Salt Lake City before he got called up to St. Louis. He was the first player ever to score 20 goals in the American League and 20 in the NHL. I've kept in contact with him and he's a great guy.

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I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.)

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I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.

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Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'

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O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

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I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound perch in my lake.

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I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Wind Quotes

Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

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It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.

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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Water Quotes

No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Lakes Quotes , Circles Quotes

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Lakes Quotes

Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Lakes Quotes , World Quotes