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Water Quotes

Don't jump in the water, if you can't swim.

Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God.

In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.

But the grass ain't always greener on the other side, It's green where you water it.

In the end, the most important thing is to be true to yourself and those you love and work hard. I mean, work like there's no tomorrow. Train. Strive. I mean, really train and cultivate your talent to the highest degree. Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive. Use the tools of your trade, if it's books or a floor to dance on or a body of water to swim in. Whatever it is, it's yours.

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

There is no water like rainwater; no strength like one's own; no light like that of the eyes; and no wealth more dear than food grain.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

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.

Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering, full of tribulation. This one should wisely understand, one should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.

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.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

Just as it is impossible to know when a swimming fish is drinking water, so it is impossible to find out when a government servant is stealing money.

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.

Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.

It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.