"We think we dwell in the same reality as everyone else, but each dwells in a separate reality of his own making, shaped by thoughts and feelings like rushing waters carving the canyon walls." 

-Almine

"So let the mind flow like water. Face life with a calm and quiet mind and everything in life will be calm and quiet." 

-Thich Thien-An

"Water and words... Easy to pour, impossible to recover." 

-Chinese Proverb

"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

"In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle -- this everyone knows. Yet no one acts accordingly."

-Lao Tzu

"Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear."
-Lao Tzu