“Who hears the rippling of rivers will not utterly despair of anything.” ~Henry David Thoreau

“Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fibre in our bodies, making them sing and glide.” ~John Muir

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” ~Heraclitus

“You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.” ~Paulo Coelho

“A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.” ~Laura Gilpin

“A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer’s just a vessel that must follow where it goes.” ~Garth Brooks

“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke

“Be like a river. Be open. Flow.” ~Julie Connor

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.” ~AA Milne

Background images by Aarti Kapur Singh