1. “Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
2. “You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.”
3. “Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.”
4. “No water, no life. No blue, no green.”
5. “The cure for anything is salt water; sweat, tears or the sea.”
6. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
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7. “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water.”
8. “Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
9. “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”
10. “If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.”
11. “Water is the driving force of all nature.”
12. “Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother, and medium. There is no life without water.”
13. “The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”
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14. “The good you do today, will often be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.”
15. “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
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16. “I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”
17. “Do you have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the water is clear?”
18. “Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what’s hidden.”
19. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
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20. “When the well is dry, we’ll know the worth of water.”
21. “God is the color of water. Water doesn’t have a color.”
22. “You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”
23. “There’s something about the water – that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You’re on Earth but not quite.”
24. “The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.”
25. “There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.”
26. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
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27. “It’s a way of taking the next step toward the source of creativity.”
28. “We should practice gently and constantly like a great river that flows day and night year after year.”
29. “In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.”
30. “My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.”
31. “The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”
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32. “Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.”
33. “Man cannot discover new Oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
34. “Water seeks its own level and water rises collectively.”
35. “In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.”
36. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one”
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37. “Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.”
38. “Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.”
39. “If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.”
40. “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
41. “Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.”
42. “We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.”
43. “Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.”
44. “In the abundance of water – the fool is thirsty.”
45. “You will always find an answer in the sound of water.”
46. “Desires achieved increase thirst like salt water.”
47. “In order to reflect, think and plan, you must quiet yourself. You can’t see your reflection in churning waters. Water must be still to see your reflection.”
48. “You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.”
49. “You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.”
50. “A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”
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51. “This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is.”
52. “Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You are just talking.”
53. “Always be like water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface.”
54. “From tiny, tiny waves of joy, one gets to the ocean of happiness, which is called bliss.”
55. “The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.”
56. “Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.”
57. “The true practice of meditation is to sit as if you were drinking water when you are thirsty.”
58. “Doesn’t matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.”
59. “The martial artist must be like a piece of bamboo — straight, upright, but flexible in the wind.”
60. “Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.”
61. “The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”
62. “The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.”
63. “We ourselves feel what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”
64. “I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.”
65. “You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave on the ocean.”
66. “A Japanese man’s most valuable possession is his garden, and a Swiss man’s most valuable possession is his water.”
67. “Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.”
68. “A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.”
69. “Water is life, and clean water means health.”
70. “I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.”
71. “How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?”
72. “So let the mind flow like water. Face life with a calm and quiet mind and everything in life will be calm and quiet.”
73. “The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty all around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the self is reflected in it.”
74. “Water links us to our neighbor in a way more profound and complex than any other.”
75. “If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear.”
76. “If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.”
77. “It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”
78. “It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.”
79. “May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water.”
80. “The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.”
81. “There are only three things women need in life; food, water, and compliments.”
82. “My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.”
83. “Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.”
84. “Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.”
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