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The Water
«We rest here while we can, but we hear the ocean calling in our dreams, And we know by the morning, the wind will fill our sails to test the seams, The calm is on the water and part of us would linger by the shore, For ships are safe in harbor, but t»
«When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be -- I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.»
Author: Wendell Berry
| Keywords:
at the least, blind, come into, despair, drake, feeds, Feel free, forethought, free time, Free World, grace, grief, grows, Heron, In Me, I go, lie down, lying in wait, night time, Peace of, presence, rests, rest day, sound, tax, The Light of Day, The Night, The Water, waiting, wake, water down, wild, wood, wood drake
«To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.»
Author: Carlos Castaneda
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
Act of, equals, lion, magnificent, mood, rats, regard, revolution, The Water, warrior
«When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
boiling, boil over, heat, The Water, turn off, turn up the heat
«The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
sparkle, sparkled, sparkles, sparkling, The Water, vessel
«The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
animals, bird, fish, in the air, Music of, noise, noisiest, noisy, sea animal, singing, The Animals, The Bird, the fish, The Sea, The Silence, The Water
«Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.»
Author: Bob Marley
(Composer, Guitarist, Singer)
| Keywords:
deep water, go in, swim, The Water, tough
«Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
afraid, appear, bottom, bottomed, Bottom Up, clarity, considers, crowd, deep, deep water, go deep, obscurities, obscurity, strives, The Bottom, The Crowd, The Water, timid, water
