Quotes About Fluidity

None can lead this life who are not almost amphibious.

....the sea changes color, but the sea does not change.

Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.

Straight? So is spaghetti until you heat it up

But without the judgment of my left brain saying that I am a solid, my perception of myself returned to this natural state of fluidity. Clearly, we are each trillions upon trillions of particles in soft vibration. We exist as fluid-filled sacs in a fluid world

The mood has changed. It's heavier. We were liquid; now we're stones.

It's nice sometimes to be the river rather than the rock.

by the time you've finished naming a thing, it has already changed and the name you gave it no longer defines it exactly...

But Rabbi Sarah had said, "For some people, faith is like a gold liquid that takes the shape of whatever vessel it's poured into.

Mobile thought," here, opens to what concepts implicitly and often quietly foreclose, as well as what they encourage and condone.22 It entails keeping the concepts with which we work provisional, active, and subject to change; it entails retaining them both as mobile and as located as they are in the world.

Kinds of water drown us. Kinds of water do not.

There is a moment when the water is not in one vessel nor in the other

As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

In prose, if you forget a line, you can say something else in the same context.

The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work.

Nadie me ofende si me contradice: para una criatura como yo, de opiniones tan poco sólidas, y de sentimientos tan cambiantes, la discrepancia no tiene aquel sentido de agravio que asume para los firmes y para los dogmáticos, porque yo vivo en habitual discordancia conmigo mismo".

Living in a sweet, fluid state of ignorance about all things and about oneself is the only way of life guaranteed to suit and bring comfort to the sage.

I feel feminine when I feel feminine. I feel masculine when I feel masculine. I am a role switcher.

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

When I played the game, you played with your feet. And the game was about finesse. Movement.

With the 200m free it just changes all the time whoever is at the top.

I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.

What's subcultural now is literally just a line of thinking, which is trying to be eyes wide open, in my view. It's no longer attached to a specific demographic or specifically downtrodden groups of people; it's much more free-floating, and you don't know where you're going to find it.

associate the self with control and with firm persistence through time, but on close inspection we turn out to be much less under control, and much more fluid, with a much less fixed identity, than we think.