Learning from floods

THIS is the season of floods. We also experience many types of “floods” in life. Some sayings about floods we can learn from:

What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood? —Buddha

The truth cannot be drowned by a flood of false indictments.—Slobodan Milosevic

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.—Martin Luther King Jr.

Ceaseless flow

Time, in its irresistible and ceaseless flow, carries along on its flood all created beings—and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.—Anna Comnena

Slander cannot destroy an honest man—when the flood recedes, the rock is there.—Chinese proverb

No loss by flood and lightning, and no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived men of as many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.—Helen Keller