Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Sea Quotes, Water Quotes

As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.

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Water does not force its way.

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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

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The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

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There is no small pleasure in pure water.

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Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.

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The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

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The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water.

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Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

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How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

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As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.

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There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

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To fish in troubled waters.

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a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.

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A little water clears us of this deed.

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The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.

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