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There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there's a flow in the river.

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.

Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.