33 Quotes About Water To Help You Flow Smoothly Through Life

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Water is the most versatile of the four elements. These quotes about water are inspiring for anyone who wishes to flow more smoothly through life. 

Inspirational Water Quotes

1. “Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.” – Wallace Stevens

2. “The legends say the moon was the first waterbender. Our ancestors saw how it pushed and pulled the tides, and learned how to do it themselves.” – Yue, Avatar: The Last Airbender

3. “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.” – Bruce Lee

4. “Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.” – Percy Ross

5. “The way of water has no beginning and no end. Our hearts beat in the womb of the world. Water connects all things, life to death, darkness to light. The sea gives and the sea takes.” – Tsireya, Avatar: The Way Of Water

6. “To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.” – Alan Watts

7. “And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.” – C. S. Lewis

8. “Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.” – Lao Tzu

9. “There’s hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall.” – Patrick Ness

10. “Water is the driving force of all nature.” – Leonardo da Vinci

11. “Grace is finding a waterfall when you were only looking for a stream.” – Vanessa Hunt

12. “Water is life, and clean water means health.” – Audrey Hepburn

13. “Water is soft and humble, but it is the most powerful and is the most endurable.” – Debasish Mridha

14. “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.” – Karen Blixen

15. “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.” – Mahatma Gandhi

16. “Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” – Bruce Lee

17. “Water was calmness and tranquility, but it was the rage of a storm as well.” – F.C. Yee, The Shadow of Kyoshi

18. “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.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

19. “You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.” – Edwin Louis Cole

20. “Even though the largest rocks may stand in its way, water will always find a way to get through it.” – Roger Lee

21. “The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.” – Lucretius

Be Like Water Quotes

22. “The sea does not like to be restrained.” – Rick Riordan

23. “This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is.” – Dennis Rodman

24. “Be fluid. Be like water. Flow around the obstacles.” – Master Choa Kok Sui

25. “A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.” – Lucy Larcom

26. “You can’t stop the waves but you can learn to surf.” – Jon Kabat-Zan

27. “Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.” – Crystal Middlemas

28. “The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.” – Sigmund Freud

29. “Don’t be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.” – Kim Young-ha

30. “Anyone can take the wheel of the ship in calm water but it’s not so easy when it’s not calm water. You can’t just enjoy the good times, you have to be resilient in the tough times.” – Sean Dyche

31. “Running water never grows stale, so you just have to keep on flowing.” – Bruce Lee

32. “Water is the element of change. The people of the Water Tribes are capable of adapting to many things. They have a sense of community and love that holds them together through anything.” – Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender

33. “The mind is like water. When its turbulent, it’s difficult to see. When it’s calm, everything becomes clear.” – Prasad Mahes

Did you like the Avatar quotes I sprinkled in? I’ve always loved that series and Katara especially. 

I hope you have a great rest of the day, and make sure to drink lots of water!

Until next time, Felicity Seeker!