1.
The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
Al-Ghazali
The joy of the droplet is to perish in the stream.
2.
We must be careful not to choose, but to let God's Holy Spirit manage our lives; not to smooth down and explain away, but to stir up the gift and allow God's Spirit to disturb us and disturb us and disturb us until we yield and yield and yield and the possibility in God's mind for us becomes an established fact in our lives, with the rivers in evidence meeting the need of a dying world.
Smith Wigglesworth
3.
A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself
Maya Angelou
A woman in concordance with her essence is like a stream cascading. She progresses without affectation and reaches her objective equipped to be herself and only herself.
4.
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
Norman Maclean
Ultimately, all entities coalesce into one, and a stream traverses it.
5.
The river that flows in you also flows in me.
Kabir
'The same stream of life that runs through us both binds us together.'
6.
Some beings will walk with you for the duration of this bodily existence, up to the very end. Some will come with bright promises, bright lights, but they fade quickly. Others come, they don’t look like they will go very far, but they are marathon runners; they’re there with you all the time. You cannot determine this... Somehow in the flow of your own unique river, you will see that everything is as it should be.
Mooji
7.
There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.
Desmond Tutu
'It is imperative that we locate and address the source of the problem, rather than solely focusing on alleviating its effects.'
8.
Here is a tree rooted in African soil, nourished with waters from the rivers of Afrika. Come and sit under its shade and become, with us, the leaves of the same branch and the branches of the same tree
Robert Sobukwe
9.
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.
Chief Seattle
When the last leaf has fallen, the last stream has been contaminated and the final fish taken, we will understand that wealth is not edible.
10.
Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?
Mary Oliver
11.
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
Loren Eiseley
If there is enchantment on this globe, it is encapsulated in liquid.
12.
The eagle that soars in the upper air does not worry itself how it is to cross rivers.
Gladys Aylward
The hawk that soars in the stratosphere does not concern itself with how it will traverse streams.
13.
Christ is like a river in another respect. A river is continually flowing, there are fresh supplies of water coming from the fountain-head continually, so that a man may live by it, and be supplied with water all his life. So Christ is an ever-flowing fountain; he is continually supplying his people, and the fountain is not spent. They who live upon Christ, may have fresh supplies from him to all eternity; they may have an increase of blessedness that is new, and new still, and which never will come to an end.
Jonathan Edwards
14.
Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings, but in the blesser Himself.
Arthur W. Pink
'Rather than a flood, the Lord often gives us a stream, which can be flowing this day and evaporated the next. Why? To instruct us not to rely on our mercies, but in the Giver Himself.'
15.
Palestine is Arab and must be liberated from the river to the sea and all the Zionists who emigrated to the land of Palestine must leave.
Saddam Hussein
'Palestine is Arab and must be delivered to its rightful owners from the river to the sea and all the Zionists who immigrated to the land of Palestine ought to depart.'
16.
All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.
Ramakrishna
'Different paths may lead to the same destiny; all religions are equally valid ways to reach God.'
17.
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev
Autocracy is a regime where you can express what you believe even if it's not accurate. Politicians are all the same. They pledge to construct a bridge where there is no water.
18.
Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
Rachel Carson
Preservation is an objective that has no conclusion. There will never be a time where we proclaim our labor to be done.
19.
The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.
Lynn Culbreath Noel
The initial river you traverse permeates the remainder of your life. It resurfaces in pools and whirlpools to recall your identity.
20.
While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke it open. It was perfectly dry in spite of the fact that it had been immersed in water for centuries. The same is true of many people in the Western world. For centuries they have been surrounded by Christianity; they live immersed in the waters of its benefits. And yet it has not penetrated their hearts; they do not love it. The fault is not in Christianity, but in men's hearts, which have been hardened by materialism and intellectualism.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
21.
Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
22.
We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the trees, the grasses, the rivers, the mountains, and the four-legged and winged peoples; and even more important, we should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples. When we do understand all this deeply in our hearts, then we will fear, and love, and know the Great Spirit, and then we will be and act and live as the Spirit intends.
Black Elk
23.
I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.
Rabindranath Tagore
24.
Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning.
Richard Bangs
Unruly streams are nature's rebels, challenging physics, prancing to their own melodies, disregarding humankind's power, perpetually eroding, and ultimately invariably conquering.
25.
Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.
Jim Harrison
Absent affection, I'll consume life in hefty portions unaccompanied--streams, woods, aquatic creatures, partridge, peaks. Canines.
26.
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Ross Perot
The militant is not the one who proclaims the river is polluted. The militant is the one who purifies the river.
27.
As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood.
Enoch Powell
I gaze into the future with misgiving and dread, envisioning a veritable torrent of red-tinged liquid.
28.
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
'The greater your self-awareness, the more lucid you become. Acquiring an understanding of oneself is an eternal process - there is no ultimate destination.'
29.
In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when i get home the only thing i have power over is the garbage.
Bob Ross
In painting, you wield boundless might. You can shape the landscape. You can twist streams of water. But when I come home I'm only in charge of the trash.
30.
Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow.
Sun Tzu
Those who are successful strategize efficiently and alter decisively. They are like a mighty river that remains consistent in its direction yet modifies its current.
31.
Cross the river by feeling for stones under one's feet.
Deng Xiaoping
33.
I think of the love of God as a great river, pouring through us even as the waters pour through our ravine at floodtime. Nothing can keep this love from pouring through us, except of course our own blocking of the river. Do you sometimes feel that you have got to the end of your love for someone who refuses and repulses you? Such a thought is folly, for one cannot come to the end of what one has not got. We have no store of love at all. We are not jugs, we are riverbeds.
Amy Carmichael
34.
There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground river, flowing far beneath the shifting events of one's experience, keeping alive a thousand little springs of action.
Howard Thurman
35.
Rivers of living water are to be poured out over the whole world, to ensure that people, like fishes caught in a net, can be restored to wholeness.
Hildegard of Bingen
36.
Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.
Cordell Hull
37.
A man of wisdom delights in water.
Confucius
38.
There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of continents. The persistent tides - the pulse of the sea - do not discriminate; they push against all the varied shores on Earth.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
39.
Nature … is, as it were, a continual circulation. Water is rais'd in Vapour into the Air by one Quality and precipitated down in drops by another, the Rivers run into the Sea, and the Sea again supplies them.
Robert Hooke
40.
The half moon on the bank of the river's devotion. That's the stab wound, born from the killer emotion
Vinnie Paz
41.
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.
Eartha Kitt
42.
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.
Bernard of Clairvaux
43.
The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
45.
Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.
Jonathan Carroll
46.
The energy that moves life is the force of the Feminine. She is unstoppable. She is the source of all life, the mover of blood, the breather of breath, the flow of the river's water. The Feminine is life. We can feel Her moving and living in any moment we are open to Her, or as Her.
David Deida
47.
Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
G. Stanley Hall
48.
The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy.
F.B. Meyer
49.
Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.
Arthur Golden
50.
To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
Clifton Fadiman