"Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it. If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us . . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place."

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Source : Elizabeth Lesser (2010). “Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow”, p.270, Random House

Elizabeth Lesser

#Tired Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Water Quotes

“Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays.”
“Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.”
“I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.”
“An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.”
“I do not believe so implicitly, as some cricketers and writers upon cricket do, in watching the bowler's hand.I prefer to watch the ball, and not anticipate events.”
“Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.”
“Above all nations is humanity,”
“Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.”

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