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True love is like a long quiet river. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean. — Chen Shui-bian

Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is. — Ram Dass

Time is like a river
you cannot touch the same water twice because the flow that has passed
will never pass again ... — Tanu B Singh

But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!" (5:24). — Anonymous

I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253) — Dorothy Allison

You are beautiful. You are unique. Your heart holds celestial love which flows like a mighty river through you to nourish the universe. — Debasish Mridha

I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since. — Sam Cooke

Well, like there's no river without a bend, there's no life without its unhappiness. — Duong Thu Huong

May my life flow like a river, ever surprised by its own unfolding. — John O'Donohue

That's the way it is with the mind. Nothing is ever equal. Like a river, as it flows, the course changes with the terrain. — Haruki Murakami

Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea. — Laozi

He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Life in us is like the water in a river. — Henry David Thoreau

The essential function of feelings is to provide feedback and pass through us organically like water flows in a river. — Deborah Sandella

This river is so old. When the Nephilim walked the land and men were like grasshoppers at their feet, it was flashing as thin and quick as a minnow. — Kristopher Reisz

She had not remembered then what she remembers now, a memory like something buried in river silt that finally works free and rises to the surface ... — Ron Rash

What? It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you could make your way across the flow. — Patricia A. McKillip

The morning sun in New Orleans felt like it was trying to make a point, convincing the old world to believe something new. — Hunter Murphy

Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

When your heart overfloweth broad and full like the river, a blessing and a danger to the lowlanders: there is the origin of your virtue. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side. — Alain-Rene Lesage

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do. — Kenneth Oppel

The girl was very pretty and her body was like a clear mountain river of skin and muscle flowing over rocks of bone and hidden nerves. — Richard Brautigan

Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea. — Gregory Corso

Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river. — Laozi

If you have to fall, fall like a dry leaf, follow the wind, drop on the river; you will meet the ocean and your life will never ne the same. — Marcus L. Lukusa

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

Down to the river itself, the water so smooth that the stars and lights blended on its dark surface like a living ribbon of eternity. The — Sarah J. Maas

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea. — G. Stanley Hall

I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good. — Jerry Lee Lewis

It's not what we take with us
It's what we leave behind
Like a river singing
It wont let us sleep at night. — Mick Bose

As she wanders along the river like this, one hand on her hip and the other clutching a mark to defray her expenses, she is in well-known country. — Hermann Broch

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. — Alexander Pope

I like it when things crescendo to a huge moment like 'Hold Back the River.' — James Bay

When I first came to New York, I was so bored. My friends were like, 'Do a blog. It's the hip thing to do for male models.' — River Viiperi

The thing about 'Hold Back The River' that I like is that it's a good starting place, and it was the perfect first single. — James Bay

A river is an appropriate frontier. Water is neutral and in its impartial winding makes the national boundary look like an act of God. - OPE — Paul Theroux

A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just can't stay still. — Pearl Zhu

All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss. — Chuck Palahniuk

In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids. — Olaf Stapledon

We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations. — David Brower

As she ran her gown rustled softly like the wind in the flowering borders of a river. — J.R.R. Tolkien

If you have learnt enjoying life without purpose, like a flowing river, you have learnt the art of living. — Girdhar Joshi

A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river. — Christiane Northrup

Fill your heart with truth so that the wisdom of Christ will flow fluently from you like a living river moving into the seeking hearts of the thirsty. — Calvin W. Allison

Up the river, toward the city, buttery sunlight bounced off the Temple of the Dawn, scattering color into the air like a jewel. — Sharon Guskin

A life without love is like a river without water. Dryness cracks the heart. — Debasish Mridha

When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze. — Kurt Lewin

Life is like a river: nothing is ever the same, even for an instant. — Chris Prentiss

Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs. — Plutarch

When a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The bloodline of heroes - like the source of a mighty river - is never known. — Kavita Kane

It felt like a war between two endless things, between a bottomless chasm and a running river. — Naomi Novik

Water isn't shaped like a river or ocean; it mists invisibly against metal and glass — Maya Angelou

The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy. — F.B. Meyer

The power of the river is to flow wildly! The power of the lake is to think calmly! Wise man both flows like a river and thinks like a lake! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Curling leaves and twining branches outside my bay window look like a Van Gogh in the starlight - there is a river out there somewhere — Jeffrey Rasley

I would love to live like a river flows,
carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. — John O'Donohue

Sir 39:27 His blessing hath overflowed like a river. — Various

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. — River Phoenix

If life is like a canoe in a raging river then wisdom is the paddle to successfully navigate. — Orrin Woodward

Time was like a river, and I was a fish in that river, moving so quickly that the world outside my household was blur. — Alice Hoffman

When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Photography is like a river with a thousand streams that never converge. — Massimo Vitali

life is like a river; it just keeps flowin — Amy Curtis

Writing can be a splendid headache. Fun when words spill forth like a raging river and a catastrophic, hair-pulling experience when they won't. — Adam Santo

We made a good start toward preserving recreational areas like the Chattahoochee River. — Roy Barnes

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow. — Stephen King

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear. — Benjamin Disraeli

Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow. — Sun Tzu

There was a tear running down his cheek. It seemed like a river in the light of the setting sun. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Morning larks called to one another from the shallows at the river's edge, and the sky began to silver behind the friar like a halo. — Julie Berry

The problem was that the only reality he could see what a nut-brown nymph who could whisper like a song and move like a river of honey. — Frank Lee

We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of each other's stones. — Simon Van Booy

If you are open to receiving the essential nature of life, its intelligence will flow through you like a great river. — Bryant McGill

Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever. — Minette Walters

For me the artworld is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future. — Ilya Kabakov

He sips his drink and it leaves his handlebar mustache dripping like a cattle dog come outta a river. — Erin Bowman

The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind. — A. G. Mohan

We don't have to look for what the next thing will be. If experience is any judge, it'll come flowing toward us like a river. — Stephen Colbert

A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes. — Garth Brooks

Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid. — Francis Bacon

I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river. — Laura Resau

Poetry is such an amazing feeling that flows like a river. — Euginia Herlihy

Like a singing river
You break out to flow freely
I am the mountain behind
Happily I watch you
Memory of us
Full and sweet — Anchee Min

A mind without kindness is like a river without water. — Debasish Mridha

For one moment, I felt like a river running down to his ocean. — Rosamund Hodge

Cautious, like crossing a river in the winter. — Laozi

There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine. — William S. Burroughs

Live like a mighty river. — Gautama Buddha

Playing Rachmaninoff was like walking on a rope bridge across a gorge with dreamy skies above and a raging, muddy river below. — Ella Leya

There is no music like a little river's ... It takes the mind out-of-doors ... and ... it quiets a man down like saying his prayers. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The course of a person's life, like the course of a river, may likewise be changed by means of ingenious and timely precautions. — Ross King

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time. — Rabindranath Tagore

I really like acting because you can create a character. You can make someone who has never existed before. That's neat. — River Phoenix

The leaves had edges of silver that trembled and rippled like a river of green and fire flowing high above us. — Ayn Rand

Anywhere people lived memory collected like sediment on the bed of a river, dropping from the flow of time to become fixed in the places time ran over — Adam Haslett

There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river. — Gautama Buddha