#water

The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all of creation without trying to compete with it.

Water gathers in the low places that people disdain. Therefore it is like the Tao.

The softest thing in the world dashes against and overcomes the hardest; that which has no substance enters where there is no crevice.

Nothing in the world is more soft and yielding than water. Yet for attacking the hard and strong, nothing can surpass it.

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.

If you try to capture water in a bucket, it stagnates. If you let it run free in the river, it remains pure and alive.

The more you try to hold on to your life, the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clasp water in your hand.

The water does not intend to reflect the moon, and the moon has no desire to be reflected in the water.

The more you give up control, the more power you have. Real power is the power of yielding, like water.

Live like water, adapting without losing your essence.

The river seeks the lowest ground with humility; that is why it becomes an immense, majestic ocean.

In the marketplace of this world, buy only that which you can carry beyond the river of death.

When the bow is pulled with steady patience, the arrow of truth hits the bullseye of the heart.

Do not let the thief of procrastination steal the priceless treasure of your present hour.

The earth bears all footprints with equal patience; cultivate boundless forbearance toward all living beings.

As water poured into water becomes one with water, so the sage who knows the Self becomes one with the infinite Brahman.

Water will rise to the height of the lily that floats upon it; so will a human rise to the height of their own aspirations. (Kural 595)

Water changes its taste according to the soil; human character changes according to companionship. (Kural 452)

When the water is still, it reflects the sky and trees with flawless clarity. When the mind is still, it reflects the universe.

The greatest virtue is like flowing water that nourishes all things without contending with any.

The master lives in the world like water in the riverbed: touching every stone, conforming to every contour, yet always moving freely toward the boundless sea.

The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.

Let the grievance flow away into the river.

The water that yields to the riverbed eventually carves through the stone.

The water that carves through the canyon does so not through fury, but through unceasing persistence.

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it.

He who respects the living waters will never perish of thirst in the desert.

Water says to the dirty: 'Come here.' The dirty says: 'I am ashamed.' Water says: 'How will you be cleansed without me?'