“We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not the stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.”

“Time, flowing like a river
Time, beckoning me
Who knows when we shall meet again
If ever
But time
Keeps flowing like a river
To the sea”

Alan Parsons (1948) audio engineer, musician, and record producer from England

“Time flows away like the water in the river.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day, while the river flows on.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

“You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in.”

Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher

“Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

“See, we assemble. Samsung, Viking, Gaggenau, and Whirlpool. Here, here. Here, we exist. In the streets. And houses, in cars, and fields. As ever-present as sunshine.”

Mark Leckey (1964) British artist

“It is Amma’s prayer that we develop the expansive-mindedness to embrace both scientific knowledge and spiritual wisdom. We can no longer afford to see these two streams of knowledge as flowing in opposite directions. In truth, they compliment one another. If we merge these streams, we will find that we are able to create a mighty river—a river whose waters can remove suffering and spread life to all of humanity.”

Mata Amritanandamayi (1953) Hindu spiritual leader and guru