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Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, and the momentary elements of our flesh and bone pass out of our body every day with our excreta. We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves
We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. _x000D_A pattern is a message, and may be transmitted as a message.
Look at the animals roaming the forest: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the birds flying across the sky: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the tiny insects crawling in the grass: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the fish in the river and sea….There is no creature on earth in whom God is absent… his breath had brought every creature to life… God’s spirit is present within plant as well. The presence of God’s spirit in all living things is what makes them beautiful; and if we look with God’s eyes, nothing on earth is ugly.
The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.
Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.
But there still prevails, even in nations well acquainted with commerce, a strong jealousy with regard to the balance of trade, and a fear, that all their gold and silver may be leaving them. This seems to me, almost in every case, a groundless apprehension; and I should as soon dread, that all our springs and rivers should be exhausted, as that money should abandon a kingdom where there are people and industry.
Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.
Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would not accept such odds if there were no lion.
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things. Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source. Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.
Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.
Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.
Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.
The eagle that soars in the upper air does not worry itself how it is to cross rivers.
He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this 'I' arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
You know a dream is like a river_x000D__x000D_Ever changing as it flows._x000D__x000D_And a dreamer's just a vessel_x000D__x000D_That must follow where it goes._x000D__x000D_Trying to learn from what's behind you_x000D__x000D_And never knowing what's in store_x000D__x000D_Makes each day a constant battle_x000D__x000D_Just to stay between the shores.
There's a storm inside of us. I've heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive.
There's a storm inside of us, a burning river, a drive. You push yourself further than anyone could think possible. You are never out of the fight.
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