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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. -- Khalil Gibran
In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries. -- Janet Echelman
I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns. -- Daniel Woodrell
As comedians, we are all laughing because life is so horrible. Life is so difficult, and I cope with it by making jokes about absolutely everything. -- Joan Rivers
In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom. -- Kathleen Battle
Cat Stevens' music, voice, and energy made me feel so secure. He sounded different from some of the paternal figures in my life, so gentle and kind. -- Rivers Cuomo
Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers. -- Joan Rivers
Meditation hasn't separated me from my life and my friends and my work. It's just made my fear go away, so I can just be that much more engaged. -- Rivers Cuomo
I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I guess I'm just a born performer or artist or sharer. I find the intimate details of my life compelling and interesting. I guess that I'm assuming that everyone else does, too. -- Rivers Cuomo
You can't do everything, at the same time, always, and forever. But if you look at your life and your career as a long, winding river, you can get to your destination. -- Stacey Snider
All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river. -- Simone Schwarz-Bart
You can work all your life and make all the waters in all the rivers on Earth drinkable, but if, when you die, you are not ready to meet God, it doesn't matter. -- Anne Graham Lotz
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds. -- Joan Rivers
Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube. -- Joan Rivers
I became a Christian late, in my late 30s, so I had a lot of things that I was bringing into my Christian life that I regret. And I had a lot of questions about faith, so that's where I start when I write. -- Francine Rivers
I could pull my living in and live OK, but I don't want to live OK. I'm very happy to live in my penthouse, very happy I can pick up a check, very happy to have a great life and be able to spread my wealth a little bit. -- Joan Rivers
When you're starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life. -- Rivers Cuomo
It's great - that's the best part about being famous is that people want to get to know me. People come up to me and introduce themselves, and I make friends, and then I meet their friends. It seems like I have a very happy and comfortable social life, which is something I never had when I was younger. -- Rivers Cuomo
I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards. -- Ishmael Beah
Love is the world's river of life -- Henry Ward Beecher
In a life properly lived, you're a river, -- Jim Harrison
Love is the river of life in the world. -- Henry Ward Beecher
A good river is nature's life work in song. -- Mark Helprin
Life in us is like the water in a river. -- Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes it is impossible to stop the river of life. -- Paulo Coelho
Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow. -- Sri Aurobindo
Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar -- Jim Butcher
It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended. -- Fernando Pessoa
To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished. -- George Eliot
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Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard. -- Gautama Buddha
Life is like a river: nothing is ever the same, even for an instant. -- Chris Prentiss
A mind sourced in Spirit is a river of immeasurable power and life-giving goodness. -- James R. Swartz
That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream. -- Jon Foreman
The warrior of light plunges unhesitatingly into the river of passions always flowing through his life. -- Paulo Coelho
Life with Osho to me is like a river: always moving, always changing course, always unpredictable. -- Milarepa
If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea. -- Carol Plum-Ucci
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. -- Alexander Pope
In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries, -- Janet Echelman
Life is a river," a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice. -- Kamal Ravikant
Life is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep. -- William Batchelder Greene
If life is like a canoe in a raging river then wisdom is the paddle to successfully navigate. -- Orrin Woodward
The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining, -- Brenda Ueland
Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea. -- Gregory Corso
The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center. -- William H. Whyte
We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations. -- David R. Brower
Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially. -- Patrick Kavanagh
If you are open to receiving the essential nature of life, its intelligence will flow through you like a great river. -- Bryant McGill
There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in -- Laura Marling
The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse. -- Aldo Leopold
How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive. -- Aldo Leopold
Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life. -- Oren Lyons
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change. -- Max Muller
There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life. -- Donald Miller
All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
There are so many times in one's life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my river has not run dry. -- Eric Burdon
The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are. -- Lynn Culbreath Noel
Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream. -- Francis Chan
Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.--After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned -- Dave Eggers
With heavy rainfall, the river will overflow its banks. This is spirit of gratitude; the more grateful you are, the more your life overflow with abundance. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing -- Mary Oliver
Neither the stone that made you stumble is your enemy, nor the stone that helped you cross the river is your friend! Universe just lives its own life! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life. -- Mary Oliver
I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank -- Nancy Horan
In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean. -- Alan Watts
To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river. -- Eckhart Tolle
Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders. -- Joel Miller
Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy--existence itself--is essentially change. -- Ursula K. Le Guin

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