Water Lotus Quotes

#1. You must be a Lotus, unfolding its petals when the Sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

#2. She, the first-born daughter of water, faced
darkness and smiled. Took mystery as her
lover and raised light as her child. Man that
shit was wild. You should have seen how
they ran. She woke up in an alley with a gun
in her hand. Tupac in lotus form, Ennis' blood
on his hands.

Saul Williams

#3. But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.

Gautama Buddha

#4. One must be a lotus to emerge from mucky waters clean.

Will Advise

#5. When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

Gautama Buddha

#6. A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work.

Swami Vivekananda

#7. Even as the lion, not trembling at noises; even as the wind, not caught in a net; even as the lotus-leaf, untouched by the water - so do thou wander alone like the rhinoceros!

Swami Vivekananda

#8. The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#9. As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world.

Gautama Buddha

#10. May we exist like a lotus, / At home in the muddy water. / Thus we bow to life as it is.

Zen

#11. Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

Gautama Buddha

#12. May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water.

Gautama Buddha

#13. Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.

Osho

#14. The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and arguments. As the lotus rises on its stalk unsoiled by the mud and the water, so the wise one speaks of peace and is unstained by the opinions of the world.

Gautama Buddha

#15. Be like a lotus. Let the beauty of your heart speak. Be grateful to the mud, water, air and the light.

Amit Ray

#16. At that instant I became a blooming lotus flower. The water in which I flourished was a single teardrop from Nyx.

P.C. Cast

#17. 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.

Gautama Buddha

#18. The lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing.

Nita Ambani

#19. The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water,So men's height is just as great as their inner strength.

Thiruvalluvar