„Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space.“

— Morihei Ueshiba

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„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.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
„Time flows away like the water in the river.“
— Confucius
„the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man“
— Franz Kafka
„water is fearless, you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a teapot it becomes the teapot, water can flow drip, creap, or crash!“
— Bruce Lee
„Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.“
— Stephen King
„Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.“
— Haruki Murakami