Flowing River – Quotes

And what did the

And what did the banks do to earn this perpetually flowing river of wealth? Did they lend out their own capital obtained through investment of stockholders? Did they lend out the hard-earned savings of their depositors? No, neither of these were their major source of income. They simply waved the magic wand called fiat money. … Read more

Night and day the

Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans … Read more

Gentle reader, I was

Gentle reader, I was born upon the water – not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river. Frederick Marryat

A grudge is like

A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river. Christiane Northrup

The Nile, draining out

The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the opening of the north-flowing river’s delta, with Jerusalem’s answering high beams to the northeast. This 4,258 mile braid of human life, first navigated end-to-end in 2004, is visible in a single glance from space. Chris Hadfield

To put your hands

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together. Barry Lopez

Hitoshi: I’ll never be

Hitoshi: I’ll never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something I cannot stop. I haven’t a choice. I go. One caravan has stopped, another starts up. There are people I’ve yet to meet, others I’ll never see again. People who are gone … Read more