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"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless--like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash Be water my friend." »Bruce Lee
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"water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downwards. Now by striking water and causing it to leap up, you may make it go." »Ni'matullah Wali
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"Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together." »Buddha
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"The best [man] is like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.
It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.
This is why it is so near to Tao." »Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
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"The best man is like water. Water is good it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in lowly places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao." »Lao Tzu
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"The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal." »Lao Tzu
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"The sun opens the lotuses, the moon illumines the beds of water-lilies, the cloud pours forth its water unasked: even so the liberal of their own accord are occupied in benefiting others." »Bhartrihari
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"No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see." »Taoist Proverb
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"The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water." »Danish proverb
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"What is harder than rock, or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere." »Ovid
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"Feathers are light; but when they come together, they become heavy!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Everyone thinks his own burden heavy." »French Proverb
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"I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior." »Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason
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"What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water." »Schopenhauer
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"My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial." »Charles De Gaulle
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"If a man has a weak arm, give him a heavy hammer to exceed himself!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed." »Buddha
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"The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty." »Lao Tzu
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"Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary." »Frederick Sherwood Dunn
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"Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain." »Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
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"Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly." »Christian Williams
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"Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing too!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage." »John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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"What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted in the winds of immorality." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"My friend I consider you my brother. I know we are not blood, and blood is thicker than water, but your body already has all the blood it needs. You will always need water." »Eric Pio
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"Leave each one his touch of folly it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry." »John Lancaster Spalding
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"When you are caught in the heavy rains of anger, open the umbrella of mind, take refuge under the roof of reason!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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