Water

The nature of things is water;
the all is alive and is full of gods.
-Thales

Water is the driving force in all of nature.
-Leonardo da Vinci

Water is the mirror of nature.
-Anonymous

Water is a potent symbol
for emotion and mystery in life.
-John Thie and Matthew Thie

Water is the soul of the earth.
-Unknown

Do you identify with the drop of water
or the water of the drop?
-John A. Grimes

The water or the wave?
-John Fowles

In both water and ripples,
there is only water.
There is nothing else.
-Janadeva

The river is everywhere at once, 
at the source, at the mouth, 
at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, 
in the sea, in the mountains,
everywhere at once.
-Hermann Hesse

Rain, hail, snow and ice:
All are different,
But when they fall
They become the same water
As the valley stream.
-Ikkyu Sojun

When water turns to ice,
does it remember one time it was water?
-Carl Sandburg

Opening their hearts
ice and water become
friends again.
-Teishitsu

How comforting the clarity of water...
-Wendy Rose

The cure for anything is salt water -
sweat, tears or the sea.
-Isak Dineson

You will always find an answer
in the sound of water.
-Chuang Tzu

Water originally contains no sound
Touching a stone makes it murmur.
-Taoist

The water doesn't concern itself
with what rocks it passes over.
-Kenneth G. Mills

Running water is beautiful water.
So be a channel.
If anything comes, pass it on.
-Satchidananda

Running water will run faster
if you remove an obstruction here and there.
You need not do much more.
-Yogaswami

... the river is everywhere at once, 
at the source and at the mouth, 
at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, 
everywhere at once, 
and that there is only the present time for it, 
not the shadow of the past, not the shadow of the future.
-Hermann Hesse

The water is your friend.
You don't have to fight with the water,
just share the same spirit as the water,
and it will help you move.
-Aleksandr Popov

Water always goes where it wants to go,
and nothing in the end will stand against it.
Water is patient.
-Margaret Atwood

No need to chase back and forth like the waves.
The same water which ebbs is the same water that flows.
No point to turning back to get water
When it's flowing around you in all directions.
-Hsu Yun

You must be shapeless, formless, like water.
When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.
When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle.
When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Water can drip and it can crash.
Become like water my friend.
-Bruce Lee

As everyone knows water and meditation
are forever wedded.
-Herman Melville

The wave does not need to die to become water.
She is already water.
-Thich Nhat Hanh 

The water and my mind have both settled down
Into perfect stillness.
Sun and moon shine bright in it.
-Hsu Yen

Water which is found in a shallow pool
is not the same as the water found in the depth of the earth.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Where the stream runneth smoothest,
the water is deepest.
-John Lyly

Smooth runs the water
where the brook is deep.
-William Shakespeare

Like water,
we are truest to our nature in repose.
-Cyril Connolly

Thus water is the eye of the earth,
its apparatus for looking at time.
-Paul Claudel

When you drink water,
Remember its source.
-Deng Ming-Dao

Don't drink by the water's edge.
Throw yourself into in.
Become the water.
Only then will your thirst end.
-Jeanette Berson