Quotes About Flow

You cannot engrave on water nor wound it with a knife, which is why the river has no fear of memories.

O]n a poem of a bridge I contemplate the boundless silence of a slender girl our ills flow together and how, borne away, she remains.

Kirjoittaminen on ainoa asia, jota tehdessäni minusta ei tunnu siltä, että minun pitäisi tehdä jotain muuta.

The art of life is not controlling what happens, it's using what happens.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel like I should be doing something else.

MÉPHISTOPHÉLÈS. Le sang est un suc tout particulier.

life is a dance with the cosmos.

Every THING around you, comes and goes, like waves on water. The only "thing" remaining, is YOU - The Ocean

Explore your truths. Trust what you find. Don't take anything personally. Release. Let go. Always go with your flow. Relax. Enjoy more.

Learn how to exhale... Learn how to release the abdominal muscles in a wave-like motion and the inhale will take care of itself.

We may as well make friends with Change — the instant the Moon is full it's already starting to wane

...music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance...

What if you stumble? Do what any choreographer would instruct you to do: Make it part of the dance.

If I adhere to any fundamental principle in my writing, perhaps it is my belief that the function of fiction is essentially to amuse or entertain the reader. The mark of good writing, in my opinion, is that the reader is not aware that the story has been written; as he reads, the ideas and images flow into his mind as if he were living them. The utmost accolade a writer can receive is that the reader is incognizant of his presence.

Rule o' thumb, the motorcycle police consider the "normal flow of traffic" in judging speed.

Wind will blow through any chink it can find, flow around any obstacle in its course. Follow the wind's example and let it guide you into those spaces.

You always return to the water...

Boring work is generally delegated by creative people (for obvious reasons) and flows downhill to people uncreative enough to do it out of duty or necessity. Be really afraid of boring work! It says something about you and your propensity to take whatever is given. It's a sign of your missing ambition.

And I felt myself flow toward him, as a river rushes when the ice breaks up.

Reading a Baldwin sentence can feel like recreating thought itself. One has to take hands off the rudder and trust the river of thought as it flows.

Experience is a flow from event to consequence, with moral events defined by human choice.

Push not the river; it will flow on its own accord.   —Polish Proverb

sluice gate. Then they opened the door and opened the hatch

In reality, a river's basic shape... is not a line but a tree. A river is, in its essence, a thing that branches... Although it flows inward toward its trunk, in geological time it grew, and continues to grow, outward, like an organism, from its ocean outlet to its many headwaters. In the vernacular of a new science, it is fractal, its structure echoing itself on all scales, from river to stream to brook to creek to rivulet, branches too small to name and too many to count.