“Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
“The cistern contains: the fountain overflows.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 35
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