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“You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.”
Paulo Coelho
“When the river is deepest it makes least noise”
Proverb
“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
Winnie the Pooh
“Even the upper end of the riverbelieves in the ocean.”
William Stafford
“You can never enter the same river twice.”
Indian Proverb
“Only when you have crossed the river can you say the crocodile has a lump on his snout”
Ashanti Proverb
“I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.”
W. H. Auden
“Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“You know a dream is like a river/ Ever changing as it flows./ And a dreamer's not just a vessel/ That must flow where it goes.”
Garth Brooks
“I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army”
Abraham Lincoln
