98 Water Quotes To Soothe Your Day

"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."

"No water, no life. No blue, no green."

"Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water."

"There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite."

"I will do water - beautiful, blue water."

"We are over 60 percent water by weight. We're just a big ball of... blob of water, with enough organic thickener added so we don't dribble away on the floor."

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water."

"A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us."

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

"This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is."

"I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people's hearts."

"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water."

"Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose."

"Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life."

"I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong."

"Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success."

"I love to watch the movement of light on water, and I love to play in rivers and lakes, swimming or canoeing. I am fascinated by people who work with water - fishermen, boatmen - and by a way of life that is dominated by water."

"Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed."

"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea."

"We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean."

"Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul."

"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was."

"The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit."

"I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time."

"The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone."

"Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion."

"Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water."

"It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water."

"We really have the most beautiful planet in our solar system. None other can sustain life like we know it. None other has blue water and white clouds covering colorful landmasses filled with thriving, beautiful, living things like human beings."

"Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child."

"When life places stones in your path, be the water. A persistent drop of water will wear away even the hardest stone."

"Water is the driving force of all nature."

"I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive."

"With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea."

"Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans."

"The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator."

"If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us."

"We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one."

"It's a relief to hear the rain. It's the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like a sudden outbreak of democracy. Water, when it hits the ground, instantly becomes a puddle or rivulet or flood."

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

"A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water!"

"The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words."

"Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me."

"Because no matter who we are or where we come from, we're all entitled to the basic human rights of clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and healthy land to call home."

"For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it."

"Availability of water is critical for sanitation projects. Without water, toilets can't be kept clean. Places where there is no drinking water, water for toilets becomes complicated."

"The access to clean air and clean water is a basic right."

"In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air."

"I do believe that clean water is the most efficient way to change the world."

"Clean water is such a treasure that we take for granted in America."

"I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies."

"So many diseases and illnesses have fundamental roots in the lack of clean water. Resolving the clean water crisis would mitigate a lot of problems."

"More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water."

"I want my children and my grandchildren to live in a world with clean air, pure drinking water, and an abundance of wildlife, so I've chosen to dedicate my life to wildlife conservation so I can make the world just a little bit better."

"You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you're brushing your teeth. You can do small things."

"Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas."

"The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity."

"We should be concerned about our immediate environment. Taking care of the leaking tap, not wasting water while washing hands, and other such gestures will go a long way in helping the environment."

"The few pounds we spend for an item of clothing isn't the true cost - the real cost is the millions of gallons of clean water that was used to grow the fabric, or the millions of gallons of fresh water that was polluted with toxic chemicals to dye the clothes."

"Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment."

"I look at the world through a green lens now, but you can't make yourself crazy. That feeling of green guilt can be really inhibiting. It's about a changing mind-set, remembering to turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth."

"The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth."

"In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans."

"Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does."

"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."

"The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing."

"A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets."

"Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions."

"Pure water is the world's first and foremost medicine."

"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry."

"You are water, I'm water, we're all water in different containers. That's why it's so easy to meet. Someday we'll evaporate together."

"They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming."

"I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall."

"Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress."

"I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding."

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."

"Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea."

"A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself."

"Surrender to the flow of the River of Life, yet do not float down the river like a leaf or a log. While neither attempting to resist life nor to hurry it, become the rudder and use your energy to correct your course to avoid the whirlpools and undertow."

"When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!"

"The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters."

"A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable."

"All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river."

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."

"Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container."

"In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence."

"On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human."

"Just let go – and fall like a little waterfall."

"There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together."

"All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?"

"Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you."