You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

Love flows like flowers, and grows like water. I’m so thirsty for romance I could drink a dozen roses.

In the calm, deep waters of the mind, the wolf waits.

The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun. (L’eau ne brille que par le soleil. – Et c’est toi qui es mon soleil.)

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

You don’t know what thirst is until you drink for the first time.

It’s January and I’m kicking snow off the ground. I just threw out the flower you made me promise to water, handle with care, because I was too careless, you said. Careless with things and...

The sides of buildings should be like the tops of lakes. I’d fish through your window hoping to catch a smile.

Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.

I drink special water, because not all water is equal. Some water is smarter and taller and more handsome than other water.

Water may be extremely dirty, yet its nature remains clear.

But water doesn’t care for human sorrows. It flows without slowing or quickening its pace in the darkness of the earth, where only stones will hear.

When I’m writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

The ‘here’ of Watts is pastel houses with window gratings in curly patterns. ‘Here’ is yard sales with bins full of stuffed animals and used water guns. Here is Crips turf.

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

The lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing.

And what lights the sun? Its own fire. And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The sun and time. The sun and time and burning. Burning. The river bobbled him along...

Every cell in our body is primarily water. But the water doesn’t just sit in the cell, it moves through it in a very organized way. The process occurs rapidly in tissues that have these...

You are so beautiful, like water droplet.When I’m looking on water, inside the glass, I see nothing unusual, but when I look on water droplet, I see, how beautiful She is.

People are like water: Many rush pass you, as some will over-flood. Some will drown you, or force you to go their current ways. Some will be cold or hot-tempered, but try to say with...

Who will you be, my Little Ones? Will you dance for the fires of your youth and run at midnight to water’s edge, diving into summer’s heat? Will you ride a wild mare to any...

I want to be done with tears, and the day is too beautiful for them anyway. Nevertheless, I consider my tears for a moment, the idea of them, a link to the earth’s ancient origins....

She drifted down into the water, letting it engulf her body until even her face was underwater. The silence was delicious, just the sound of her own heartbeat in her ears.

When the grass is greener at other people’s feet, it is not because the grass chose to take up that complexion. But it is because, they have deliberately irrigated it on regular accounts.

There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of...

Fishing is water hunting, and I’m casting my net wide as we speak. I’m in the desert, fishing for fossils.

As our bodies are mostly made of water, I’d rather be hungry than thirsty. And as love is mostly made up of sugar water, I’d rather be a hummingbird caged in your heart.

One cannot help but identify with the life-giving quality of water, not just to quench our thirst, but for our emotional and spiritual wellbeing.

[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It’s more useful.

Our physical body knows it cannot function without physical water. So, too, our spiritual life should realize that it can’t function without the “living water” of Gods Word.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away – even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of...

Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

When people are dying, bureaucracy should be thrown out of the water.

The minute you start feeling like you’ve got it down, you know what you’re doing, you’re dead in the water.

Water – a thoroughly underrated drink.

Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

The best way to keep your daughter out of hot water is to put some dishes in it.

A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to...

We designate the spirit of the well as ‘she’ because in most of her personifications she takes a female form, though not invariably. She appears in many guises – ghost, witch, saint, mermaid, fairy, and...

Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.

I don’t want my love with her to wither like grapes on a vine, so I’ll water it with romance to turn it into wine.

Life in us is like the water in a river.

The emotional states are liberated inside water, we calm down emotionally, we become more sensitive, we are able to “touch” deeper ourselves and other beings. Empathy is echoing back to us giving subtle vibrations from...

I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom...

I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In the middle of the night you would hear something happening...

There was water and waves all around. They ran towered the shore, and made way for the boat as it ran through. At the back of the boat, water squirted out and some of it...

It is rooted deep in your bones; the water calls out to you until it causes you physical pain unless you come to it.

A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity.