Like The Flowing River Quotes

#1. He saw time turn back upon itself, a river flowing upward to the spring. He held the contemporaneity of two moments in his left and right hands; as he moved them apart he smiled to see the moments separate like dividing soap bubbles.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. 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.

Laozi

#3. The leaves had edges of silver that trembled and rippled like a river of green and fire flowing high above us.

Ayn Rand

#4. We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time,those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them.By the time we've found them,we already been defeated by adversity.

Paulo Coelho

#5. He showed me the river of living water, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb. Revelation 22:1

Beth Moore

#6. When a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Life is flowing like a river while you are standing on the bank and busy with everyday life.

Debasish Mridha

#8. In reading we have to allow the sunken meanings to remain sunken, suggested, not stated; lapsing and flowing into each other like reeds on the bed of a river

Virginia Woolf

#9. constantly before his eyes now was a river flowing from him; and it was as if he himself and his house and the wealth he had accumulated over many decades were flowing away like the river, while he was too old and too weak to oppose the powerful current.

Patrick Suskind

#10. Change is like a river: nothing is the same, even for an instant. Everything is continually moving through the six stages of change: about to come into being, beginning, expanding, approaching maximum potential, peaking, and finally, passing its peak and flowing into its new condition.

Wu Wei

#11. We don't have to look for what the next thing will be. If experience is any judge, it'll come flowing toward us like a river.

Stephen Colbert

#12. Don't try to convince anyone of anything. When you don't know something, ask or go away and find out. But when you do act, be like the silent, flowing river and open yourself to a greater energy. Believe
that's what I said at our first meeting
simply believe that you can.

Paulo Coelho

#13. The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy.

F.B. Meyer

#14. Music is like a river or stream that has come down to us through time, bringing nurture to man's soul. From the past masters, this music flowed to my father and through him to me. I want to keep this stream flowing. I don't want it to die. It must spread all over the world.

Ali Akbar Khan

#15. Life is like a flowing river. Just like the speed of time, it will never come back.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment that flows through the veins of your being. Like a river of life flowing on since creation, approaching the sea with each new generation.

Don McLean

#17. Listening to all words
the silent words of nature, the words of friends and enemies, and the words of scripture
can become an exercise in human yearning and divine response, flowing in and out of one's life like a river current.

Kathleen Norris

#18. The girl was very pretty and her body was like a clear mountain river of skin and muscle flowing over rocks of bone and hidden nerves.

Richard Brautigan

#19. Writing is like canoeing. When everything is flowing it's great but when it's not, you're dragging your butt the whole way down the river.

Jamie Krakover

#20. Life is like a river - it keeps flowing, flowing and flowing till it merges into the Sea. nothing can stop the flow of Life , but you can Enjoy the Journey ...

R.v.m.

#21. For, like the wind, the sun, or the flowing river, like a soaring man-of-war or a beetle under a stone, like a spider at a web or a crab scuttling sideways across a shore, Nimrod was free.

Andrea Levy

#22. Ottes die for anything, but while I was in there," she nodded at the gently flowing river, "I felt for a brief moment what freedom might taste like."- Sari

Ray Anyasi

#23. For me the artworld is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future.

Ilya Kabakov

#24. Outside, beyond what is right and wrong, there exists a vast field. We will find each other there

Paulo Coelho

#25. If you have learnt enjoying life without purpose, like a flowing river, you have learnt the art of living.

Girdhar Joshi

#26. Some phrases just have a nice ring to them, y'know? Like, "The water sprite goes flowing down the river." Or, "Ahh, spring." "It's totally autumn." "Drop dead." "Stiff roundhouse kick." Or, "Thick soy broth." See?

Eiichiro Oda

#27. I watch her as she leaves. Everything about her is fluid as a river. Her messy hair, her xylophone voice, the strokes of her paintbrush. Even her camouflage army jacket hangs loose, flowing like ribbons.

Lisa Ann Sandell

#28. Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.

Laozi

#29. For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

Rachel Carson

#30. We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there.

Malala Yousafzai

#31. The Hocking River moves like a flowing arm away from the Ohio River runs through towns as though it's chasing its own freedom, the same way the Ohio runs north from Virginia until it's safely away from the South.

Jacqueline Woodson