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Love is the river of life in the world. -- Henry Ward Beecher
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change. -- Max Muller
Love is the world's river of life -- Henry Ward Beecher
Sometimes it is impossible to stop the river of life. -- Paulo Coelho
To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished. -- George Eliot
The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining, -- Brenda Ueland
The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center. -- William H. Whyte
Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life. -- Oren Lyons
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
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.
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. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. -- Martin Luther
I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns. -- Daniel Woodrell
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
Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest. -- Bruce Babbitt
The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned. -- Francine Rivers
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
Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're going to be all right in life. -- Joan Rivers
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
Most of the songs I write are just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake. -- Rivers Cuomo
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
I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.' -- William Least Heat-Moon
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
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures. -- John Burnside
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
The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after God, whose eye is single to God, and in whom by the power of God's Spirit the flesh and the world have been crucified, and his ministry is like the generous flood of a life-giving river. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
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
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter? -- Wole Soyinka
In a life properly lived, you're a river, -- Jim Harrison
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
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
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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
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. -- Khalil Gibran
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
In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries. -- Janet Echelman
In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries, -- Janet Echelman
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. -- Alexander Pope
Life is a river," a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice. -- Kamal Ravikant
If life is like a canoe in a raging river then wisdom is the paddle to successfully navigate. -- Orrin Woodward
Life is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep. -- William Batchelder Greene
Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea. -- Gregory Corso
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
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
If you are open to receiving the essential nature of life, its intelligence will flow through you like a great river. -- Bryant McGill
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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