Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
Quotes about currents (16 Quotes)
It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.
I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.
I asked an endurance swimmer, 'How is it possible for you to swim for twenty hours What kind of mental attitude do you have' She said, 'I believe that the water is a friend. It wants to help me. It does not fight against me and I do not fight against it. We are working together.' I often think of that when I am in the swim of life. The waves and currents and the tides hit us all at times, and it is not always easy to say, 'The water is friendly.' It requires an act of faith, a volitional act it means work, but most of all it requires a will to believe. the more we use this will, the more it becomes a part of us and the more natural becomes its application.
In the woods we return to reason and faith. Standing on the bare ground my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space all mean egotism vanishes.... The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.
He probably got too far offshore and got caught in the currents. Free diving is more of a local thing, but we have a lot of mainland people do it. A lot of people exceed their ability and get shallow water blackout.
I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.
A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable.
I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished. They are punished by fear. Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him. We meet as water meets water, or as two currents of air mix, with perfect diffusion and interpenetration of nature. But as soon as there is any departure from simplicity, and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbour feels the wrong he shrinks from me as far as I have shrunk from him his eyes no longer seek mine there is war between us there is hate in him and fear in me.
The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.
One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.