Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author “Everything inside and around us wants to reflect itself in us. We don't have to go anywhere to obtain the truth. We only need to be still and things will reveal themselves in the still water of our heart.” Heart Needs Water ♥ 12
Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author “The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind — with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind's return home.” Home Practice Water ♥ 12
MM Mary Morrissey Author “Water will not flow from a faucet that is not connected to its source.” Water Flow ♥ 12
Matsuo Basho Poet “Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice” Water Sound ♥ 12
James Dean Actor “There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.” Choices Water Swim ♥ 12
Franklin D. Roosevelt Politician “The handling of our forests as a continuous, renewable resource means permanent employment and stability to our country life. The forests are also needed for mitigating extreme climatic fluctuations, holding the soil on the slopes, retaining the moisture in the ground, and controlling the equable flow of water in our streams.” Mean Country Water ♥ 12
Jesse Ball Author “I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.” Needs Water Elephants ♥ 12
C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar “Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water...If I find in myself a desire, which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” Water Baby Swim ♥ 11
EW Elizabeth Warren Politician, Lawyer “Cars, toys, aspirin, meat, toasters, water - nearly every product sold has passed basic safety regulations well in advance of being marketed and sold. But consumer credit is a kind of buyer-beware, wild west. That is partly the result of history.” Water Car Safety ♥ 11
Ernest Hemingway Novelist “Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.” Water Lost Week ♥ 11
Confucius Philosopher “With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.” Inspirational Joy Water ♥ 11
Arthur Conan Doyle Writer, Physician “From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.” Water Math Logic ♥ 11
