Mike May
Athlete
"I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall."
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Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water."
Omar Khayyam
Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer
"I came like Water, and like Wind I go."
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect"
Chinua Achebe
Novelist, Poet
"People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck."
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"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water."
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"The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. To utilize them for present needs while insuring their preservation for future generations requires a delicately balanced and continuing program, based on the most extensive research. Their administration is not properly, and cannot be, a matter of politics."
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"When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come."
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"Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land."
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"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby."
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"The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset."
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"A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him."
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"Water is the driving force of all nature."
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"In time and with water, everything changes."
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"When you live guided by intuition rather than thought, your life dances like writing on water, fresh and untraceable."
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"We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care."
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"later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land."
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"The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the diving glory."
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"Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects."
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"We must be full reservoirs in order to let our water spill out without becoming empty, and we must possess the spirit with which we want them to be animated, for no one can give what he does not have."
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"Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities."
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"Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters."
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"Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean."
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"As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil."
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"If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear."
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