Five Elements Quotes:

I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim am II am this body, a playOf five elements a dramaOf the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.

- Kabir

topic: Dancing, Joy, Sorrow, Five Elements

Wellbeing is about the combination of our love for what we do each day, the quality of our relationships, the security of our finances, the vibrancy of our physical health, and the pride we take in what we have contributed to our communities. Most importantly, it’s about how these five elements interact.

- Tom Rath

source: Tom Rath, James K. Harter, Jim Harter (2010). “Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

topic: Pride, Community, Quality, Wellbeing, Vibrancy

I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about - the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of a box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth; it can put out fire, it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water And yet, you haven't drawn on those strengths in living your life, have you?

- Arthur Golden

source: "Memoirs Of A Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

topic: Fire, Water, Personality, Geisha, Five Elements

The gross elements are earth, water, air and fire, with the fifth being space. Each particle of the body is made up of these five elements, which are manifested in different colors. In their true quality, space is blue light, water is white, earth is yellow, fire is red, and air is green.

- Tulku Thondup

topic: Light, Air, Blue, Different Colors, Five Elements

There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.

- Louis Diat

topic: Food, Fire, Air, Five Elements

If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Four Elements, Three, Use, Five Elements

Ah, Mastery of the Five Elements!" "Is that the one we want?" I asked. "No, but a good one. How to tame the five essential elements of the universe - earth, air, water, fire, and cheese!" "Cheese?

- Rick Riordan

source: Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

topic: Fire, Air, Water, Five Elements

It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals.

- Sathya Sai Baba

topic: Animal, Quality, Elements, Five Elements

When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it all in. I didn't know you were supposed to just stand up and tell jokes. Essentially, that's what my act became: those five elements - except I dropped the poetry.

- Steve Martin

topic: Magic, Elements, Firsts, Banjos, Five Elements